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.
Riverview Hospital.
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
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.
And Sarah Wayne Callis returns as Michael’s love, Sara.
Amaury Nolasco Robert Knepper and Rockbound Dunbar are back as Sucre, T-Bag and C-Note.
And Paul Edelstein returns as Kellerman.
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.
Season 2 – Michael, Lincoln and the rest of the Fox River 8 break out of prison and go on the lam.
Season 3 – Michael inside Panama Prison and Lincoln outside.
Season 4 – Michael sacrifices himself so Sara can escape Miami prison.
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.