Prison Break Reboot Casts Emmy Winner Margo Martindale As Warden
Hulu's Prison Break reboot has hired a big gun to rule the roost.
Three-time Emmy winner Margo Martindale (Justified, The Americans) is set to guest-star in the pilot as Jessica Strand, the warden of one of the deadliest prisons in America.
With filming starting next week in West Virginia, other newly cast guest stars include Donal Logue (Gotham), Lili Taylor (Outer Range) and Ray McKinnon (Mayans MC), Deadline reports.
Mayans MC showrunner Elgin James is writing this new Prison Break and will executive-produce alongside Prison Break creator Paul Scheuring and the original series' executive producers Dawn Olmstead, Marty Adelstein and Neal Moritz. Specific plot details have yet to be disclosed, but the project will tell a new story set in the same universe as the original series.
Previously, TVLine confirmed that Drake Rodger (The Winchesters) will play Tommy, an inmate at one of the deadliest prisons in America, who has already served 10 years; Aussie Emily Browning (American Gods, The Affair) will fill the role of Cassidy, an ex-soldier turned corrections officer who takes a job at the aforementioned, co-ed prison; and Lukas Gage (YOU, Dead Boy Detectives) will play Jackson, a politician from a well-to-do background who's in the midst of his first congressional campaign.
Additional castings include Clayton Cardenas (Mayans MC) as "Ghost," a ruthlessly dangerous inmate; JR Bourne (Mayans MC, Teen Wolf) as Junior, the mentally unstable, lone survivor of a decades-old prison break; Georgie Flores (Famous in Love) as Andrea, a Corrections Officer-in-training; Myles Bullock (Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist, BMF) as Red, a "shot caller" convict; and Priscilla Delgado (A League of Their Own) as Cheyenne, a prison inmate and Ghost's girlfriend.
Fox's Prison Break originally ran for four seasons from August 2005 to May 2009 (The Final Break wrap-up movie included), and then returned with a nine-episode revival run in Spring 2017. Yet whereas that fifth season on Fox brought back series leads Wentworth Miller, Dominic Purcell and Sarah Wayne Callies, among others, the prospective Hulu series is not expected to do the same.
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