"I feel as though we told the story we intended to tell. That's something that's very rare in television - that you're allowed closure - and we were."
You can understand the sentiment, since series finale The Final Break had left Miller's character - aesthetically pleasing, plentifully tattooed architect Michael Scofield - dead and buried.
Five years on and Miller was re-teamed with his former co-star and screen sibling Dominic Purcell on The Flash - Purcell was Heatwave, fiery familiar of Miller's Captain Cold on the superhero series, and their reunion sparked (no pun intended) new interest in Prison Break.
"I think the studio always wanted to at some point revisit Prison Break, but at some point Wentworth kind of semi-retired from the business," Purcell explained.
"He's jumped back into the fray now - and as soon as Wentworth was on board, that's when the dominos started to fall."
With buzz at a high, Fox didn't wait long to make an official announcement. In August, the network broke the news that 10 new episodes of the cult series had been ordered - later cut to nine.
"I had written a long-winded road map for 10 episodes," original series creator Paul Scheuring said. "But at the end of the day, we just didn't have enough time for 10 episodes, so we conflated two of those episodes into one."
It was actor availability that led to the tight schedule, with many of the show's returning stars now working on new gigs.
Scheuring was originally announced as penning the first episode of the revival, now known as Prison Break: Resurrection - and was said to be crafting a 'series bible' for the remainder of the season.
Sarah Wayne Callies (giving us another update on the revival in February 2016) later suggested that Scheuring would be writing all nine episodes - but in fact, he's joined by Dominion creator Vaun Wilmott and Mike Horowitz of Burn Notice.
Prison Break air dates: When will it air?
Filming on the new episodes was scheduled for the spring of 2016 once Purcell and Miller had wrapped on the first season of Legends of Tomorrow - a new spin-off from The Flash in which the pair were also series regulars (busy boys!).
Prison Break season 5 will launch on Fox in the US. The premiere date? Tuesday, April 4, 2017, as part of the network's midseason schedule.
It'll land in the UK on Monday, April 10 at 9pm on Fox UK, just six days after its US premiere.
Source : http://www.digitalspy.com/tv/prison-break/feature/a665454/prison-break-season-5-cast-characters-plot-and-everything-else-you-need-to-know-about-the-reboot/
