We're getting a 'Prison Break' reboot over at Hulu! The streamer is in the early stages of development on a new iteration of the former Fox series with 'Mayans MC' showrunner Elgin James. The potential series is not set to follow the main characters from the original show, played by Wentworth Miller and Dominic Purcell, but would be set in the same world.
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00:00 "Getting you out of here is impossible. Not if you decide in a place it isn't."
00:03 "You've seen the blueprints?" "Better than that. I've got them on me."
00:07 We're getting a Prison Break reboot over at Hulu. The streamer is in the early stages
00:13 of development on a new iteration of the former Fox series with Mayans MC showrunner Elgin James.
00:19 The potential series is not set to follow the main characters from the original show,
00:24 played by Wentworth Miller and Dominic Purcell, but would be set in the same world.
00:28 Prison Break premiered on Fox in 2005 and centered on Michael Schofield, played by Miller,
00:34 a structural engineer who commits armed robbery in order to be sentenced to a term in the same
00:39 prison where his brother, Lincoln, played by Purcell, is incarcerated for a crime he didn't
00:44 commit. Michael has an elaborate escape plan to free Lincoln, which eventually pulls in several
00:49 other inmates. The series ran for four seasons. It was also revived as a limited series in 2017.
00:56 "But I can't watch him die." "I won't do that."
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