MICHAEL SCOFIELD (Wentworth Miller, “The Human Stain”) is a desperate man in a desperate situation. His brother, LINCOLN BURROWS (Dominic Purcell, “John Doe,” “Blade: Trinity”), is on death row and scheduled to die in a few months for a murder Michael is convinced Lincoln did not commit. With no other options and time winding down, Michael holds up a bank to get himself incarcerated alongside his brother in Fox River State Penitentiary. Once he’s inside, we learn that Michael – a structural engineer with the blueprints for the prison – has hatched an elaborate plan to break
Lincoln out and prove his innocence.
PRODUCTION COMPANIES
20th Century Fox Television
Adelstein-Parouse Productions
Original Television
Senior correctional officer BELLICK (Wade Williams, “Collateral”) offers some prison wisdom as
Michael arrives. Then, with the help of his cellmate, SUCRE (Amaury Nolasco, “Mr. 3000”), Michael begins to align himself with a disparate group of prisoners, including former mob boss JOHN
ABRUZZI (Peter Stormare, “Fargo,” “Minority Report”) and CHARLES WESTMORELAND (Muse
Watson, “I Know What You Did Last Summer”), a man some believe to be the infamous skyjacker
D.B. Cooper. On the outside Michael has only one ally, his defense attorney and longtime friend,
VERONICA DONOVAN (Robin Tunney, “The Craft,” “End of Days”) – who is Lincoln’s former girlfriend.
Meanwhile, Lincoln’s 15-year-old son, LJ (Marshall Allman), is now adrift without his uncle
Michael’s positive influence.
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS
Paul Scheuring
Dawn Parouse
Marty Adelstein
Neal Moritz
Brett Ratner
WRITER
Paul Scheuring
DIRECTOR
Brett Ratner
Rounding out the cast are Sarah Wayne Callies (“The Celestine Prophesy”) as prison doctor SARA
TANCREDI, whom Michael ends up visiting more than he should, and Stacy Keach (“Titus,” “Mike
Hammer”) as the powerful WARDEN POPE, who forges a close, almost father-son relationship with the new convict.
Directed and executive-produced by Brett Ratner (“Rush Hour,” “Red Dragon”) and executive-produced by Paul Scheuring (“A Man Apart,” BRIAR & GRAVES), Marty Adelstein
(“Tru Calling”), Dawn Parouse (“Tru Calling”) and Neal Moritz (“XXX,” “Tru Calling”), PRISON BREAK combines the hope of “The Shawshank Redemption,” the camaraderie of
“The Longest Yard” and the tense procedure and spectacle of “The Great Escape.” This intriguing new series promises to reveal additional pieces of the puzzle each week as
Michael carries out his daring plan to mastermind the ultimate PRISON BREAK – and solve the far-reaching national-scale conspiracy that landed him there in the first place.
CAST
Wentworth Miller as Michael
Dominic Purcell as Lincoln
Robin Tunney as Veronica
Sarah Wayne Callies as Dr. Tancredi
Peter Stormare as Abruzzi
Amaury Nolasco as Sucre
Wade Williams as Bellick
Marshall Allman as LJ
GUEST CAST
Stacy Keach as Warden Pope
Muse Watson as Westmoreland