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Sarah Wayne Callies will Stay on Prison Break!

by Nikki on January 31st, 2007

Prison Break creator Paul Scheuring told Ausiello:

“We wouldn’t kill [Sarah Wayne Callies’ character] off for having a child,” he says. “We’re planning on going forward with her in the series, because she’s one of our strongest components.” Scheuring also ruled out incorporating the pregnancy into the show. Instead, he and his fellow producers are devising “creative ways” to account for Sara’s disappearance this fall. (Callies is due in late summer, just as production on the anticipated third season gets underway.) “It actually fits into what we were already planning,” says the exec, who would neither confirm nor deny that Sara would be the victim of yet another kidnapping. “We definitely have creative work-arounds to account for her character being MIA. We would have explanations for why she wasn’t in the first batch of episodes.”

Paul Scheuring also teased that Season 3 would feature “a different storytelling process” that will begin to “play out in the last couple episodes of Season 2″ and “leave some cliff-hangers, including one with Sara.” Although mum on specifics, he says the new conceit will involve bringing “some of the surviving members of the gang back together,” in addition to introducing several new faces. “In the model of Lethal Weapon, where in every subsequent sequel they had a new participant, we’re going to be doing that as well. We brought in Mahone for Season 2, and we plan on adding one or two major new characters/actors for Season 3.” Does that mean my buddy William Fichtner’s days are numbered? “Let’s just put it this way: We’re very, very happy with Bill Fichtner.”

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