14 DAY TRIAL // If you were one of the many fans disappointed in the ending of Fox’s “Prison Break” series, it might not be too late to hope for a do-over or at least a better chance at a more satisfying closure. The network is now working on a limited-series revival, TV Line has learned.
“Prison Break” aired between 2005 and 2009, with the final season considered the weakest of the series. The series finale was an even bigger downer, as fans thought writers got lazy and took the short way out by killing Wentworth Miller’s character instead of giving him the ending he deserved, after all he’d been through.
The trade publication says that a revival is now in the works, but it ever seeing the light of day depends entirely on whether the stars align and interest in it proves enough. Apparently, the plan is to make it into an event of “a dozen or so episodes [that would] feature a close-ended storyline,” much like it happened with “24.”
The plan is also to bring the two leading men, Miller and Dominic Purcell, together again, so from that, we know there are only two directions this could take: either the revival takes place after the events on the original series and Michael didn’t die, or it will turn back to elaborate on something we’ve already seen or was only hinted at before.
Miller and Purcell worked together again on The CW’s “The Flash” and will appear in the upcoming “Legends of Tomorrow” as well, and they said in previous interviews they’d be game for a “Prison Break” revisit.
Fox brass has said as much too, and it seems that this ball has been set in motion at last.