Premiere Date Announced For Prison Break Revival Series

The premiere date has finally been announced for the Prison Break revival series.

The official Prison Break Twitter account shared this message: “It’s time to break out. RETWEET if you’re excited for the return of #PrisonBreak on April 4.”

The upcoming show is set to bring back a slew of the show’s original stars including Wentworth Miller, Dominic Purcell, Sarah Wayne Callies, and Robert Knepper. This time around the gang isn’t breaking out a prison, but rather the series will be set in Yemen and the crew must “break out of the country itself,” according to Wentworth Miller.

Check out a sneak peek for the new season here.

Here’s the official synopsis for the series below:

In the thrilling new event series PRISON BREAK, original series stars Wentworth Miller, Dominic Purcell, Sarah Wayne Callies, Amaury Nolasco, Robert Knepper, Rockmond Dunbar and Paul Adelstein are reunited for an all-new adventure spanning the globe and featuring the signature thrills and cliffhangers that were hallmarks of the original series when it aired on FOX from 2005-2009.

The original action drama centered on MICHAEL SCOFIELD (Miller, “The Loft”), a young man determined to save his convicted brother, LINCOLN BURROWS (Purcell, “DC’s Legends of Tomorrow”), from death row by hatching an elaborate plan to escape from prison. In the all-new event series, filmed on location in Morocco, clues surface that suggest a previously thought-to-be-dead Michael may be alive. Lincoln and SARA (Sarah Wayne Callies, “Colony,” “The Walking Dead”), Michael’s wife until he was assumed dead, reunite to engineer the series’ biggest escape ever, as three of Fox River State Penitentiary’s most notorious escapees, SUCRE (Nolasco, “Telenovela”), T-BAG (Knepper, “Heroes”) and C-NOTE (Dunbar, “The Mentalist”), are pulled back into the action.

Prison Break was an immediate critical and ratings hit when it premiered on FOX in the fall of 2005, garnering Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Television Series – Drama and Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Drama (Miller). The original producing team, including series creator Paul T. Scheuring, Neal Moritz, Marty Adelstein and Dawn Olmstead, will return to executive-produce the new series, with Scheuring serving as showrunner/writer.

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Look for Prison Break returning to Fox on April 4.

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