In a major boost to local television production. prison breakHulu’s reboot of the 2000s crime drama, will be filmed in Los Angeles. Hollywood Reporter I’ve learned.
Production is scheduled to begin in June and will be filmed partly on stage at the Radford Studio Center, the historic facility in Los Angeles’ Studio City neighborhood. Filming will begin as Netflix nears a deal to buy the production campus, which has been home to series like Gilligan’s Island and Seinfeld.
prison break The series shot its pilot in West Virginia last year, but thanks to a California tax credit, showrunner Elgin James, who previously co-created Mayan ACwas able to establish production in the state. It’s not unusual for a pilot to shoot in one place and then move on to another for the rest of the season.
The film will charge $18.9 million to shoot in California. The film is expected to spend $53.2 million over 63 days of filming, employing 175 cast members and 225 crew members.
The project was initially waitlisted for the state’s Film and Television Tax Credit program, but was tapped to receive subsidies to film seven of its eight episodes in California in December, according to a person familiar with the situation.
The California Film Commission announced this prison break He received tax breaks along with several other untitled productions from 20th Television, which together would receive nearly $189 million for more than $520 million in spending in the state. Other titles from the studio that will be filmed in California: The final season of High potential and Family man spin off Stewiewhich received a two-season order and is taking advantage of recent changes to the tax credit program to expand eligible production categories to include animation.
The original series, which starred Wentworth Miller and Dominic Purcell, told the story of a brother who joins his wrongfully convicted brother in prison for the express purpose of his escape. It premiered in 2005 on Fox and ran for four seasons. It was revived for nine episodes in 2017.
The reboot will reportedly take place in the same world as the previous show, but will follow a new cast of characters. Emily Browning, Drake Rodger, Lucas Gage, Clayton Cardenas, J.R. Bourne, Jorge Flores and Miles Bullock will be on the call sheet when the cameras roll.
After filming levels in Los Angeles bottomed out last year, production in the area appears to be trending up. Los Angeles saw a roughly 10% increase in filming days to start the year compared to the three-month period from October to December, although television — a longtime production mainstay in the area — posted a 28% decline, according to the latest report from the FilmLA permitting office.
Other Fox shows that film in Los Angeles include: Baywatch and Universal basic men As well as anime titles such as The Simpsons, family man, Crabopolis and My father is American.
