Hulu’s reboot of Fox drama Prison Break has added four to its cast. Deadline reports 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) join the series from Elgin James (Little Birds, Lowriders). This project reunites Cardenas and Bourne who starred in the Sons of Anarchy spinoff, Mayans MC. James served as co-creator of the FX series.
Announcing its pilot order in December, this new version of Prison Break will occur in the same universe but feature all-new characters. Deadline reports the series stars leads Lukas Gage (The White Lotus, Euphoria), Drake Rodger (The Winchesters, Landman), and Emily Browning (American Gods, Monica). While plenty about the series is still under wraps, we have small descriptions for the three leads’ characters. Browning is playing Cassidy Collins, a veteran who has applied to be a corrections officer at one of the most notorious prisons in the country. Rodger is Tommy, an inmate of the prison for the past decade. And Gage is Jackson, a young politician venturing on his first campaign for office.
Per Deadline, Bourne is set to play Junior, a man stricken with mental anguish as he was the only survivor of an infamous prison escape from years ago. Bullock is Darius “Red” Lewis, another inmate. Cardenas will play the inmate, Ghost. And Flores stars as Andrea, a new cadet training to join the ranks of corrections officers at the prison.
The original Prison Break premiered in 2004 and starred Wentworth Miller (The Human Stain, DC’s Legend of Tomorrow) and Dominic Purcell (Blade: Trinity, Blood Red Sky) as brothers separated by what they believed was an injustice. When Prucell’s Lincoln Burrows is sentenced to prison for a crime he didn’t commit, his younger brother, Miller’s Michael Scofield, manages to land in the penitentiary with plans to escape and bring the right culprit to justice. From creator Paul Scheruing (Halo: Nightfall, A Man Apart), the series ran for five seasons and even stirred talked of an earlier reboot, but it never came to fruition.
The OG series caught the attention of Netflix viewers last summer earning the top streaming series spot in August. USA Networks’ Suits saw similar success on streaming, which helped the case to bring spinoff Suits LA to NBC this year.
James is set to write and executive produce via his production banner Sierra Drive, according to Deadline. Other EPs include Scheruing, Dawn Olmstead (The Experiment, Foe), Marty Adelstein (Made of Honor, Shifting Gears), and Neal Mortiz (Escape Room, Long Bright River).
All five seasons of the original Prison Break are available to stream on Hulu.