Get Sneak Peeks of 'Prison Break' Revival in These New Photos
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In addition to some stills, the storyboards of a car chase from the first episode are revealed, showing Lincoln (Dominic Purcell) in danger.

AceShowbiz - "Prison Break" revival isn't coming until 2017, but new look at the nine-episode event series has been made available in the form of pictures. Making their way out via EW, two of them show Lincoln Burrows (Dominic Purcell) and Sara Tancredi (Sarah Wayne Callies) who appear to have an intense conversation, while the other picture shows Lincoln and Michael Scofield (Wentworth Miller) seemingly trying to hide.

In addition to those three photos, storyboards of a car chase from the first episode have been revealed, showing Lincoln run off the road by new villains Van Gogh (Steve Mouzakis) and A&W (Marina Benedict). In fact, he and Sara are in danger after they learn that Michael is still alive and in a Middle Eastern prison.

"If people start finding out that Michael is still alive, then it puts their larger secret agenda at risk," says executive producer Paul Scheuring. "They'll kill anybody that finds out." While Lincoln has been used to get into trouble, he's "much more aware of the consequences of his actions" this time around.

Getting Miller and Purcell back for the revival were not hard. When they reunited on the set of "The Flash" in 2014, they started chatting about revisiting their "Prison Break" characters. At the same time, FOX had been brewing the idea of the possible continuation.

Series creator Scheuring agreed to come aboard the project after he met with Miller. "On some level, that break that we had of six-to-seven years in real life allowed Wentworth to appreciate what he had with Michael Scofield," Scheuring says of Miller's enthusiasm.

"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,' " he recalls.

On the other hand, Callies didn't easily say yes to the revival. " 'Prison Break' meant a tremendous amount to me personally, and I have a job, so I only want to come back if we're doing something brave," the actress explains.

She eventually agreed to do it because she wanted to work together with Scheuring. "A huge part of wanting to come back was that Paul was the brain behind it, and this was always Paul's baby," Callies says. "Paul kept saying, 'I want to get back to what we tried to do that first season.' Season 1 was the best season we had. It was smart, it was brave, it was direct, it wasn't coy."

Dishing on her character's transformation, Callies says Sara is a different person after having gone though a lot of hardships. "When we left her, she was a young woman devastated by losing the love of her life, and she was pregnant, and when we meet her again, she's seasoned," she says.

Callies adds, "She's moved through her grief to the point where she realized that her grief was an extravagance her son couldn't afford, and so she decided to make him her life's work, and honors the legacy of his dead father by giving him a good life; that includes giving him a stepfather [played by Mark Feuerstein]. She's changed hugely, just as I have. I don't think I could play a facsimile of Sara Tancredi from season 1, but playing Sara Scofield in season 5 is both different and honest."

Scheuring also reveals how the story is inspired by "The Odyssey". "It's ultimately a story about somebody coming back to life," he says. "The emotional heart of it is that he left behind a wife and a son he's never seen before. [I thought] 'Hey, wait, isn't that 'The Odyssey'?' " He then used Outis, the alias used by Odysseus in the original Greek poem, as Michael's alias, and the island of Ogygia, where Odysseus was detained, as the name of Scofield's newest prison holdings.

The nine-episode event series will premiere in spring 2017.

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