Elgin James’s ‘Prison Break’ Pilot Adds Priscilla Delgado to Leading Cast

According to Deadline, the Elgin James (Mayans M.C., The Outlaws) led Hulu Prison Break pilot has added Priscilla Delgado (Julieta, A League of Their Own) to round out the leading cast. Delgado will reportedly be playing a female inmate named Cheyenne who is incarcerated in one of America’s deadliest prisons.

Deadline previously reported that James’s revamp will be set in the same universe as the original FOX series of the same name, created by Paul Scheuring (The Experiment, Den of Thieves). The new series is expected to stand on its own and will likely not feature any of the characters from the original series.

MXDWN previously reported JR Bourne (Revenge, 24), Clayton Cardenas (Mayor of Kingstown, The Abandons), Myles Bullock (BMF, White Men Can’t Jump), and Georgie Flores (Into the Dark, Famous in Love) would be joining the series, marking a reunion between Cardenas and Bourne who previously worked together on James’s Sons of Anarchy spinoff, Mayans M.C.

The original Prison Break series began airing on FOX in 2005 and starred Wentworth Miller (The Human Stain, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow) as Michael Scofield, a dedicated man attempting to save his brother Lincoln Burrows, played by Dominic Purcell (Blade: Trinity, Assault on Wall Street), from death row by proving his innocence and hatching an elaborate plan to break him out of prison. The series ran for four seasons and received a TV movie titled The Final Break, which aired just after the conclusion of season four in 2009, according to Deadline.

Prison Break also received a limited series starring Miller and Purcell in 2015 that served as a fifth season of the show. According to Deadline, Prison Break was the most streamed series in America in August 2024 with all episodes being available to stream on Hulu.

James’s reboot was announced back in December of 2023 and there is currently no official release date for the new series.