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LOCATION: PRISON BREAK Revival With Wentworth Miller, Dominic Purcell, Sarah Wayne Callies Starts Filming at Coquitlam’s Riverview Lands

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The Prison Break revival started filming yesterday and continues today at Coquitlam’s 244-acre Riverview Lands but it’s not known as a location where you can linger. Some The X-Files revival fans had a different experience there but most of the time on-site security will move you along.

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Riverview Hospital.

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Prison Break, a FOX series about brothers who take turns trying to break each other out of prison, films its 9-episode revival in metro Vancouver this Spring and early Summer. Wentworth Miller and Dominic Purcell reprise their roles as brothers Michael Scofield and Lincoln Burrows.

Prison Break image from FOX

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The pair just wrapped production on DC’s Legends of Tomorrow in Vancouver in time to begin filming Fox’s straight-to-series revival. DC’s Legends of Tomorrow image from The CW.
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And Sarah Wayne Callis returns as Michael’s love, Sara.

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First #prisonbreak fitting today… Did not pick these glasses. And yes, my phone is old. That’s ok.

A photo posted by Sarah Wayne Callies (@sarahwaynecallies) on

Amaury Nolasco Robert Knepper and Rockbound Dunbar are back as Sucre, T-Bag and C-Note.

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And Paul Edelstein returns as Kellerman.
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New inmates include: Whip (Augustus Prew), Korean identity thief Ja (Rick Yune), nut-job Van Gogh (Steve Mouzakis) and Sid (Kunal Sharma) jailed for his sexuality. .​And a key character Cyclops (Amin El Gamal). Plus villain A&W (Marina Benedict).

Believing Michael is dead, Sara (Sarah Wayne Callies) is raising their child with her new husband Scott Ness (Royal Pains’ Mark Feuerstein). And Lincoln has a new love in activist Sheba (My So-Called Wife’s Inbar Lavi).
Prison Break ran for four seasons on FOX from 2005 to 2009. Creator Paul Scheuring returns as showrunner for the revival.

Season 1 – Michael gets arrested with an escape plan tattooed to his body to break his brother Lincoln out of Fox River Prison.

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Season 2 – Michael, Lincoln and the rest of the Fox River 8 break out of prison and go on the lam.
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Season 3 – Michael inside Panama Prison and Lincoln outside.
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Season 4 – Michael sacrifices himself so Sara can escape Miami prison.
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The Prison Break revival started filming in metro Vancouver yesterday and is expected to wrap July 5th (dates subject to change), according to the Directors Guild of Canada – BC Production List.

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