\n\tIn a major boost for local television production, Prison Break, 20th Century and Hulu\u2019s reboot of the 2000s crime drama, will shoot in Los Angeles, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tProduction is due to begin in June and will partially shoot on stages at Radford Studio Center, the historic facility in LA\u2019s Studio City neighborhood. Filming will start as Netflix nears a deal to buy the production campus, which has been the home for such series as Gilligan\u2019s Island and Seinfeld.<\/p>\n
\n\tPrison Break shot its pilot in West Virginia last year but thanks to the California tax credit, showrunner Elgin James, who previously co-created Mayans AC, was able to base the production in the state. It\u2019s not outside norms for a pilot to shoot in one location then shift to another for the remainder of a season.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe title will nab $18.9 million to shoot in California. It\u2019s projected to spend $53.2 million across 63 shooting days, employing 175 cast members and 225 crew members.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe project was initially waitlisted for the state\u2019s film and TV tax credit program but was tapped to receive subsidies to shoot seven of its eight episodes in California in December, according to a person familiar with the situation. <\/p>\n
\n\tThe California Film Commission announced that Prison Break was awarded tax credits alongside several other untitled productions from 20th Television, which will collectively get roughly $189 million for spending more than $520 million in the state. Other titles from the studio that will shoot in California: the latest season of High Potential and Family Guy spinoff Stewie, which got a two-season order and takes advantage of recent changes to the tax credit program expanding the eligible categories of productions to include animation.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe original series, which starred Wentworth Miller and Dominic Purcell, told of a brother who joins his wrongly-convicted brother in prison for the express purpose of breaking him out. It premiered in 2005 on Fox and ran\u00a0for four seasons. A nine-episode revival ran in 2017.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tThe reboot is said to\u00a0be set in the same world as the prior show, but will follow a new cast of characters. Emily Browning, Drake Rodger, Lukas Gage, Clayton Cardenas, JR Bourne, Georgie Flores and Myles Bullock will be on the call sheet when cameras roll.<\/p>\n
\n\tAfter filming levels in L.A. hit a new nadir last year, production in the region appears to be trending upwards. L.A. saw a roughly 10 percent increase in shoot days to start the year compared to the three month period from October to December, though TV \u2014 long an anchor of production in the region \u2014 recorded a 28 percent decrease, according to the latest report<\/a> from permitting office FilmLA.<\/p>\n \n\tOther Fox shows filming in L.A. include Baywatch and Universal Basic Guys as well as animated titles like The Simpsons, Family Guy, Krapopolis and American Dad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a major boost for local television production, Prison Break, 20th Century and Hulu\u2019s reboot of the 2000s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326595,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49,70326],"class_list":["post-326594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-production-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}