Hulu is looking to lock down a new take on Prison Break.
The streamer is in the early stages of development on a new iteration of the former Fox series with Mayans MC showrunner Elgin James. The potential series would not follow the central characters from the original show, played by Wentworth Miller and Dominic Purcell, but would be set in the same world.
James will write the script and serve as executive producer alongside Dawn Olmstead, Paul Scheuring, Marty Adelstein and Neal Moritz. Scheuring created Prison Break, and Olmstead, Adelstein and Moritz were all EPs of the Fox series. The project comes from 20th Television, which produced the original and where James has an overall deal.
Prison Break premiered on Fox in 2005 and centered on Michael Scofield (Miller), a structural engineer who commits armed robbery in order to be sentenced to a term in the same prison where his brother, Lincoln Burrows (Purcell) is incarcerated for a crime he didn’t commit. Michael has an elaborate escape plan to free Lincoln, which eventually pulls in several other inmates. It ran for four seasons — which followed the aftermath fo the escape, several characters’ re-imprisonment in Panama and unraveling the conspiracy behind it all — and was revived as a limited series in 2017.
Mayans MC, a spinoff of Sons of Anarchy, ended its five-season run on FX in July. James co-created the series with Kurt Sutter and served as sole showrunner following Sutter’s dismissal from the series in 2019. James also co-created the Prime Video/BBC comedy The Outlaws with Stephen Merchant.
James is repped by WME, Hunting Lane and Johnson Shapiro.
Deadline first reported the news.
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