With his 2013-14 ABC series “Zero Hour” long gone, screenwriter Paul Scheuring (“A Man Apart”) has apparently told someone he’s interested in reviving his 2005-2009 series “Prison Break” as a miniseries.
Scheuring hopes to bring back for the project Wentworth Miller and Dominic Purcell, who both starred in the original series and are currently working together as supercriminals Captain Cold and Heat Wave in the midseason CW “Flash” spin-off “DC’s Legends of Tomorrow.”
The idea is to use Miller and Purcell, who both have expressed interest in reprising their fraternal “Prison Break” roles for a limited series, during their summer hiatus from “Tomorrow.”
The original “Prison Break” series followed a guy who decided the only way to get his brother out of stir was to get locked up in the same penitentiary.
A 12-episode revival of “24” attracted a decent audience last summer, and Fox is exploring the idea of a second miniseries set in Jack Bauer’s universe. “Heroes Reborn” arrives on NBC in September, six new episodes of Fox’s “X-Files” launch in January and Showtime expects to begin unfurling 18 new episodes of “Twin Peaks” next year.
Deadline says no formal “Prison Break” revival talks have yet been initiated with Fox. Find all of Deadline’s story on the matter here.
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