'There's a zero percent chance of the show coming back if we don't have a top-notch story,' says Paul T. Scheuring of the possibility of making another installment of the drama series.
- May 31, 2017
AceShowbiz - The "Prison Break" limited series came to an end on Tuesday, May 30 with a quite happy ending. In the season finale, [SPOILER ALERT!] Michael Scofield (Wentworth Miller) finally reunited with his family after successfully reframing Jacob (Mark Feuerstein) for the murder he committed and originally framed Michael for.
But star Wentworth Miller doesn't think that it's a completely happy ending. "Depends on your definition of 'happy,' " he writes in an email to ET. "Is he reunited with his loved ones? Yes. Is he at peace? With everything he's done and the man he's become? I don't know. That might not be available to him. Not after what he's been through."
Creator Paul T. Scheuring confirms that Michael's smile in the final scene hints at something darker. "As scripted, it was supposed to be a bit more ambiguous at the end where Michael is looking over his shoulder and you realize while life is apparently bucolic, he's carried something with him ever since, which is a paranoia that he'll never get over," Scheuring explains. "It also insinuates that somewhere out there in the world, there's another challenge confronting him or waiting for him. So, no, this is not happily ever after."
Meanwhile, asked about the possibility of making a sixth season, Scheuring tells The Hollywood Reporter, "There's a zero percent chance of the show coming back if we don't have a top-notch story. Right now, we don't have that story." He doesn't completely rule it out, though, adding, "That's not to say we can't find it. But we're not going to make the show in perpetuity because we want to. We want it to be of very high value and high quality."
He goes on asserting, "Right now, the creative powers that be don't have that answer. So it may never come back. I'm not being coy. I hold the quality standard very high. If we can't get something that doesn't in some way feel new and different, then we're not doing it. That's difficult when you have a very singular conceit like 'Prison Break'. You have to get out of prison! So what prison is it now? So, it's tough. I would be open to it, but only if we can find a story that's going to knock your socks off."
