Hulu has pleaded responsible … to wanting extra Prison Break.

Leisure Weekly has confirmed that the streamer has formally greenlit a Jail Break reboot. The brand new present — set in the identical world as the unique Fox drama however with an all-new forged and story — has been ordered to sequence.

The brand new Jail Break will heart on Cassidy (Emily Browning), an ex-soldier turned corrections officer who takes a job at one of many deadliest prisons in America to show simply how far she’ll go for somebody she loves.

The reboot additionally stars Drake Rodger as Tommy, Lukas Gage as Jackson, Clayton Cardenas as Michael "Ghost," JR Bourne as Junior, Georgie Flores as Andrea, and Myles Bullock as Darius "Purple."

The reboot comes from Elgin James (Mayans M.C.), who serves as showrunner, govt producer, author, and director of the pilot. Daybreak Olmstead, who govt produced the unique sequence, returns as govt producer, together with Jail Break creator Paul Scheuring, Marty Adelstein, and Neal Moritz.

Jail Break initially ran for 4 seasons on Fox from 2005 to 2009. It starred Dominic Purcell as Lincoln Burrows, a person sentenced to loss of life for against the law he didn't commit, and Wentworth Miller as his brother, Michael Scofield, who hatches a plan to interrupt him out of jail by tattooing the blueprints of the constructing on his physique. Amaury Nolasco, Robert Knepper, Sarah Wayne Callies, and Rockmond Dunbar additionally starred.

The sequence gained a Golden Globe for Finest Tv Collection — Drama in its debut season, and constantly was a success in scores.

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The celebrities returned for a revived fifth season in 2017, and Fox was in improvement for an additional installment earlier than revealing in 2019 that these plans had been scrapped. The sequence additionally spawned a TV film, The Remaining Break, and a short-lived spinoff, Jail Break: Proof of Innocence, which was solely out there on cell phones.

Miller, an out homosexual man, beforehand declared that he was carried out with reprising his Jail Break position in addition to enjoying any extra "straight characters."

"I'm out. Of PB. Formally," the actor wrote in a now-deleted Instagram put up. "Not [because] of static on social media (though that has centered the problem). I simply don't need to play straight characters. Their tales have been advised (and advised). No extra Michael. When you had been a fan of the present, hoping for added seasons… I perceive that is disappointing. I'm sorry."

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Responding to the put up, his onscreen brother Purcell voiced his help: "Glad you’ve made this resolution on your well being and your reality."

The brand new Jail Break will premiere on Hulu within the U.S. and on Disney+ internationally. All episodes of the unique present can be found on Hulu.

Variety first reported this information.

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