1- Thanks to Prison Break, we should not skip the clip acting of Wentworth Miller, which is among our favorites. The handsome actor starred in Mariah Carey’s clips of “It’s Like That” and “We Belong Together” at the beginning of the series. Brett Ratner, who was one of the producers of the series and even directed the pilot, was directed by the clips.
2- Dominic Purcell said in a statement that a website in China received 135 million hits after each episode of the series.
3- The producers of Prison Break installed the first season set in Illinois, a real prison that closed in 2002, to reflect the reality of the series as much as possible. All the shootings in the cells, infirmary, and prison garden were done here. Of course, the most important detail in these shots was that the cell where Lincoln Burrows, played by Dominic Purcell, was the cell of John Wayne Gacy, one of America’s famous serial killers. In fact, many people in the series team were so uncomfortable with this situation that they did not even step into the cell. Dominic Purcell had no problem with this. He said that the cell has the best light, so it is the best place to shoot.
4- One of the firsts of Prison Break is almost the first and only series released in Blu-Ray format.
5- Prison Break, which has achieved great success worldwide, was banned from being watched in nearly 13 prisons during its release.
6- The fact that the series had such success at once and had a majority of male viewers attracted the attention of many companies for sponsorship. Toyota also signed an exclusive sponsorship deal with the Fox channel, creating a spin-off of the series for mobile phones. This special series, titled “Prison Break: Proof of Innocence,” aired in 2006. Of course, the applications of the series on the internet are not limited to this. During their baseball playoff matchup in 2006, they decided to broadcast episode replays on the internet, thinking that viewers might forget about the series. Fox was able to make Prison Break one of the first series requested by social media network MySpace.
7- In 2006, Donald and Robert Hughes, two brothers from Missouri, sued the Fox channel about the series and Paul Scheuring, the series’ creator. The two brothers allegedly submitted the text to Fox in 2001 based on their own life experiences. Donald Hughes had helped his brother Robert, who was accidentally jailed in 1964 when he was 16, to escape.
8- One of the most memorable moments of “Prison Break” was Michael Scofield’s tattoos covering his entire body. After the great success of the show, many people wanted to get the same tattoo. A small but important note should also be noted for those who want to have the same tattoo done. Such a tattoo takes about 200 hours to complete and has a price of around 20,000 dollars!
9- The Fox channel had originally planned this project as a mini-series because they had no idea how the story flow would come until the second season. So they decided to bring it to life as a 10-part mini-series, which would also include Steven Spielberg and Bruce Willis. Yet, Steven Spielberg’s decision to work with Tom Cruise on “War of the Worlds” at the last moment caused the famous director to withdraw from the project. So you know what’s the biggest reason this project has been turned into a long-running series? It is “Lost,” which has an incredible fan base all over America as well as the world. Seeing this huge success of Lost, Fox executives finally decided to air this project as a long-running series.
10 The character Michael was decided less than a week before filming the series, and the character Lincoln less than 72 hours to begin filming. The reason is that Paul Scheuring, the creator of the series, wanted to find the right names to portray these two characters.