Prison Break Season 4 Confirmed + Season 3 next air date!


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So s3 is still not over. I thought they would start afresh and call the scheduled s3e14 as s4e1.

Whatever, its high time that they wrap things up. What I hate is that in the process of streching the show they have eliminated all possibilities of a happy ending.

September man that's a long ways away, lol.. thanks for the update :)

It woudln't surprise me as it being noted as "Season 4", many shows have shorted the series this year over the strike.

It would make the most sense and the way the last episode ended.

Who is returning to Season 4 of Prison Break as a regular...well the spoilers will tell you!

Prison Break Brings Back Sarah Wayne Callies!

Aaah! Network sources tell me that the voices of you, the fans, have been heard. They are bringing back our beloved Dr. Sara Tancredi, Sarah Wayne Callies, as a regular for season four! Whoo-hoo!

How will they reattach her head? Is Michael Scofield finally going to get lucky? Check back shortly for the answers to these and other burning Break questions from Prison producer Matt Olmstead!

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Sarah Wayne Callies ? whose rather ugly contract dispute with producers led to her apparent decapitation last October ? is returning next season. Full-time. As Dr. Sara Tancredi. Head and all. Seriously.

How? Why? When? WTF?! All legitimate questions. Good thing I just hung up with Mr. Answer Man (aka executive producer Matt Olmstead).

So... I take it that wasn't Sara's head in that box...

Matt Olmstead: Yeah, that wasn't.

But initially it was supposed to be her head. What changed?

Olmstead: What changed was.... once we realized that the emotional hook of Season 3 was going to be the death of Sara, when we didn't get the actress to do it, as soon as we wrote it and shot it, we realized that there was actually a way she could still be alive. Lincoln glanced at the head in the box for a split second. That could've been anyone. He wasn't about to pull it up from the hair and inspect it closely. And then we were fairly careful thereafter of references we made to that and who took credit for it and what was seen or heard, and we left it fairly [vague]. But initially when we realized that we never actually saw the character get killed, we just had that knowledge in our back pocket and moved forward with the narrative as we intended. Which was, she's out of the picture, Michael's guilt and Lincoln is freaking out because if they did that to her they could do that to his son. It really gave us a real push for the season.

Don't you think that was a little unfair to the audience ? particularly fans of Dr. Sara ? to jerk them around like this? They had every reason to believe she was dead.

Olmstead: I don't think it was unfair, because it gave us some real juice storytelling-wise, because it put teeth in the antagonists. Obviously, they were capable of killing somebody now. It also gave us a couple of episodes where Lincoln withheld the information from Michael, and that gave us conflict with the brothers. But also, what were we really going to do? Were we going to see Sarah Wayne Callies tied to a chair for 13 episodes? And then if she broke free, what is she really doing? It was almost a disservice to that character to keep her around last season. Certainly, we could have put her on a cruise ship and she's off sailing away. But we felt if we're going to lose that character, why not get the most drama out of it. We didn't look at it in terms of we were trying to tell the audience to go, you know, do something to themselves.

What role did the fan response to Dr. Sara's death play in her return?

Olmstead: It factored in. It was kind of a confluence of events. We saw on the message boards that a lot of fans were wondering if she really was dead. And then that led to conversations of, "Well, what if she isn't?" But then we put that on the backburner and moved forward with what we had to do, because it wasn't anything that could be dealt with right then. And then when we came back after the strike and we realized that we were not going to finish Season 3... we creatively decided to blow it all out, jump forward in the timeline and get a fresh start. And, so, when we pitched that, a lot of those elements remained, but we were still looking for what that emotional core was for Michael. We were kind of exactly where we were in the beginning of Season 3, which led to her demise, quote unquote. So we went back and revisited [the idea of bringing her back to life]. And once we started talking about it, it was mentioned again that fans are still wondering about her. And when people who are fans of the show ? and of Sarah ? are asking, "Is she really dead?", what they're saying, essentially, is, "I hope she's not dead."

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If Sarah's back, will there finally be some romance and maybe some sex for Sarah and Michael?

Yes! They are finally together, but like I said there have always been these physical barriers between them. He was incarcerated, she worked in the prison hospital, so obviously there's a barrier. He was on the run, she was in another part of the country, there's a barrier.

Here they are finally able to be together, but we are jumping ahead [in time], so there's that period that's unaccounted for, so what happened to her, what happened to him and hope they both help each other get past that, get past these?invisible barriers.

There's no physical barriers anymore between them, but they're both pretty banged up when they see each other, and it's about how they get past that to really find that real intimacy.

So, they're not necessarily living together in suburbia with a dog and a baby, but they reconnect and we're sort of watching them get to know each other again?

I mean it's Prison Break, so they're all still trying to clear their names avoid jail time avoid death and so there's still that locomotive feel to it, storytelling-wise, and while that's going on on, on the fly, these two people are trying to save each other.

[Source and Source]

Whoa. Wasn't quite expecting this, though I can't say I haven't been in denial somewhat over the whole thing.

Definitely good to hear. Makes me a bit excited for the new season, as well as interested in how this is going to be pulled off.

Thanks a bunch. Probably wouldn't have found out until the next season had I not joined this forum and came by this thread. ^^;

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