The good news? Prison Break is coming back. The bad news? It won't be coming back again.
Next year's revival will almost certainly be the show's final outing, according to series creator Paul Scheuring.
"On some level, that break that we had of six-to-seven years in real life allowed Wentworth [Miller] to appreciate what he had with Michael Scofield," Scheuring told Entertainment Weekly.
"He said he wanted to inhabit it for a few more episodes. I said, 'Look, nobody wants to revive this thing for multiple seasons and that whole long slog, but if we can tell a concise, closed-ended story in nine or ten episodes, I'd be amenable to that'."
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Sounds like it's nine episodes and done, then – with Scheuring revealing that the new season is heavily inspired by Homer's The Odyssey.
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"It's ultimately a story about somebody coming back to life," he said. "The emotional heart of it is that [Michael] left behind a wife and a son he's never seen before. [I thought] 'Hey, wait, isn't that The Odyssey?'"
Michael will adopt the alias 'Outis' just as Odysseus did in the original Greek poem, and where Odysseus was detained on the island of 'Ogygia', that's now the name of Scofield's newest prison holdings.
Prison Break will launch on Fox in early 2017 as part of the network's midseason schedule – airing Thursdays at 9/8c.
Watch the first thrilling trailer for the Prison Break revival right here:
