10. Prison Break was almost a superstar
miniseries
I do not think that it comes as a shock that
the initial preface of the film, or should I
call it the premise of the story was so
engaging and invoked so much curiosity that
it was considered a hot property before
Fox legally adopted it to form a TV series.
But in the beginning, Fox productions has no
idea how to extend this story line beyond
the second season, or even beyond the first
season because of the limits of the plot.
They actually considered converting it into
a ten part mini series and the likes of
Steven Spielberg were offering to be the
executive producer. Steven then accepted
the project of War of the Worlds with Tom
Cruise and respectfully bowed but Bruce
Willis was still interested. It was the
success of the show LOST that convinced
the Fox people to continue with the actual
idea of a TV series! We thank them for that
from the bottom of our hearts because a
mini series would not have been as much
fun!

9. About Michael’s Tattoo’s
After the show became a success, a lot of
people wanted to get the tattoo’s that
Michael Scofield had in the series even
though he had them on his body to serve a
purpose. Well I would like to divulge this
little fact that incase you are one of the
crazies out there who want to get the
exact same tattoo ( I totally understand
that you are a fan and all but going this far
is insanity, with all due respect) it would
take around 200 hours to complete. Also,
you might want to know that it will cost you
about 20,000 bucks so yeah! Good luck with
that!

8. Fox productions was sued
I have already informed you that Fox
productions were initially thinking of
converting this whole story line into a ten
part mini series but get this! Two brothers
actually sued Fox productions because they
claimed that they had pitched the story to
them in 2001. The brother claimed that it
was a real life inference where one brother
was wrongfully put into prison and the
other one successfully broke him out! Well
apart from the above said fact, I am not
very impressed with prison breaks being so
common!

7. A spinoff series for cell phones
Prison Break was so successful in the first
few weeks of the show that a lot of
companies were interested in it for
sponsorship. The main reason being that it
has a lot of following from the male
demographics. Toyota was in fact so much
after Fox to give it sole rights to
sponsorship that Fox eventually agreed. In
2006 the shows first mobisode became
available. Also, it continued this internet
savvy technique till October the same year
after which the production house was
worried that people might forget it due to
the baseball playoffs and therefore they
decided to offer re-runs on the internet!
Prison break has to be the first ever
network show that officially offered its
shows on a social networking website. They
launched it on MySpace and it was a winning
streak with many grateful fans include ‘moi!

6. The Show is Banned
Another interested fact that probably you
would like to know is that this is one
particular show that is banned in like 13
prisons. Well reasons for that are pretty
obvious, so obvious in fact that I am
surprised it is not banned in all of the
Prisons in the world!

P/S: Is there a Nigerian Prison that shows Dstv or even local Channels

5. Show released in Blu-Ray
Prison Break has another honor feather in
its hat, that being the fact that it is the
only show or perhaps the first show that
was released on a Blu-Ray version. Show has
been released in HD (high-definition) but
not in Blu-ray! Pretty impressive I must say!

4. The filming of the Show
You know how some producers want the
show to be as close to reality as possible.
Well most of the fans of this show are
probably not ware of what I am going to
tell you here. The first season of the show
was actually shot in a penitentiary that is
located in Illinois. It was closed down in the
year 2002 however, but the fact that all
the scenes in the cell blocks, the infirmary,
the prison yard were all shot on the spot, in
the same location! That is pretty damn
impressive. But wait till you hear the real
impressive part. The cell used for the
character of Dominic (Lincoln Burrows) was
a the same cell that held the notorious
serial killer John Wayne Gacy. It is touted
that a lot of the crew members felt really
queasy about it and most of the staff did
not even enter it but Dominic did not show
signs of weakness and is actually reported
to have said that it was the best location
for the scenes since it had the best possible
light! It gives me shudders to think that the
place might actually stink of the insane
serial killer!

3. Hits on the Show’s Website
Get ready to be shocked again because
according to Dominic there is a Chinese
website, which is now banned, that had a
total of 135,000,000 hits every time the
show aired! Now that is one massive number.

2. Wentworth Miller is Mariah Carey’s
video hunk of choice
Does this come as a surprise that Mariah
Carey favors Wentworth Miller for nearly
all of her videos if she had her way! He
became the heart-throb of a gazillion girls
what with the chiseled looks and the very
obvious felon bad-boy aura that surrounds
him! He makes women skip a heart beat he
does!

1. Prison Break’s stars were cast at the
last-minute
You saw how perfectly portrayed the
characters of Micheal and Lincoln were
right? Would it shock you if I divulged the
fact that Wentworth was to play the
character of Micheal and Dominic to play
the character of Lincoln was an on the spot
decision. Micheal was decided for around a
week before the filming began and Lincoln
was decided for no less than 72 hours
before the filming began. The reason was
the Scheuring had to find the exact people
to play the two characters. Nothing could
be out-of-place. Apparently, it was a job
well done!

upon all your efforts no reply, there is Godooo! on a serious note, do you know that prison Break is not all that impressive expect Season one.

CHIMCO: upon all your efforts no reply, there is Godooo! on a serious note, do you know that prison Break is not all that impressive expect Season one.

You gotta do what you have to do right?

This re actually impressive facts. I only knew of some. Its just that the Era of Prison Break is gone and the Euphoria has subsided. The shoW remains one of my all time favorites.

OK.

Knowledge is never ending, the era is gone but the memory remains. I never liked the character T BAG

There is no Prison Break without T Bag. He is one of my favorites

that was the season film that lunched Nigerians into season film watching.
any day any time its my best season film cos its the first film I sat and watched for for two weeks,
followed by spactacus.....

Komex: Knowledge is never ending, the era is gone but the memory remains. I never liked the character T BAG

wow, but that's my best act of the movie cos na em make the film sweet oh...
for me sha