Prison Break: The Final Break – Chat
May 25, 2009 by Nikki Katz
Have you seen Prison Break: The Final Break?
What did you think? Was the ending satisfying? Did it make you appreciate the scene at Michael’s grave at the end of Episode 4.22?
I have only watched the beginning but seeing Michael choked up over getting married, and their wedding… I love that! Watching him die is going to kill me.
Please discuss below!
And if you haven’t seen it, email me and I can send you a link. I’d prefer not to post it here.
Images ©2009 Fox Broadcasting Co. Cr: Michael Desmond/FOX
@Athina:
A lot could happen in four minutes… Sara and Lincoln watched Michaels video. In a longer version of this episonde he could step to them in the room being happy he survided…
I absolutely love Prison Break and I cried for days when the first ending was shown. I cried my heart out. on Wednesday when the second ending was shown i cried a lot too and I couldn’t believe that he died again! I was told before I watched the second ending that Michael was going to be put back in Prison for killing Christina at the time I was told I did think but Sara killed her … but then i thought that he probably covered up for her. then i watched it and i was taken by surprise that he didn’t go in prison again but Sara did. I think the hole point of having two endings was that they were completely different and both really good. But i was disappointed that he died in both i thought that he should have lived in one and made the other different.
SINCE HE DIDN’T ACTUALLY DIE FOR SURE IN THE FINALE, IN SERIES 5 WHICH THEY SHOULD DEFINITELY MAKE, MICHAEL SHOULD BE ALIVE AND WORKING FOR SOMEONE WHO WIPES HIS MEMORY AND IS SENT TO KIDNAP HIS OWN SON TO TEACH HIM HOW HE ROLES SO THAT THE COMPANY HAS A NEW OPPERATIVE LATER. OBVIOUSLY EVERYONE HAS TO GET INVOLVED AGAIN BY PREVENTING THE CHILD FROM BEING KIDNAPPED. I WILL LEAVE THE REST UPTO YOU FOX!
PLEASE MAKE SERIES 5. TRUST ME IT WOULD BE AMAZING TO SEE HOW INDESTRUCTIBLE MICHAEL REALLY IS.
GO FOR IT FOX
MAKE SERIES 5
IT WILL SHOCK EVERYONE
WELL DONE GUYS
XX LOVE YOU MICHAEL, LINC AND SUCRE XX
Everyone look what i found on a website about the movie prison break 21 july i really think too that thoose 5minutes something real excited is going to happen because on the folder it says “Prepare yourself for the “Truth” <<truth maybe they explain in thoose 5minutes the truth about michael scofield his tumor his fake death or anything
or they’r just saying this to get ous to buy the dvd maybe the 5 minutes are just missing minutes on when sara is in prison maybe they missed some scenes there or scenes before who knows if thoose 5 minutes actually are on michael scofield showing him :S little bit unsure if i really want to buy the dvd 
they made the show redicoules jjust because they lost VIEWRS on season 3 and 4 doesn’t mean they have to end it bad ffs ?? there are still other viewers who liked the show and maybe were expecting the show ended happy (michael not dead).. look here under what i saw in website
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‘Prison Break’ to Wrap Up Loose Ends in DVD Movie SpecialUpset fans will finally get their answers on July 21
Millions of fans were left heart-broken and bitterly disappointed by the way in which the four-year “Prison Break” series ended a couple of weeks ago, but perhaps they should not rush to forget about the show that literally wrote the book on prison-themed series. On July 21, a special DVD edition, “Prison Break – The Final Break” will be released, as The Examiner reports.
As many fans must already know, the special production, made solely with the purpose of going straight to DVD, will try to explain the couple of years that the series finale overlooks, the aforementioned source informs. In doing so, it will explain many details that have been left hanging, while also tying up loose ends and, at the same time, bringing some form of consolation to fans who were upset by Michael’s death.
“The 88-minute direct-to-DVD production will give viewers a glimpse into what happened in between the handful of years that the finale eclipsed towards the end of the series. Some fans were upset with the tragic conclusion of the series, and this DVD release will help shed some light on what happened in the finale – and why.” The Examiner further says. Of course, the special production will not change anything about the ending of the series, that much is understood but, hopefully, fans will finally be able to accept why Wentworth Miller’s character had to die.
Speaking of the ending of the series, just recently, executive producer Matt Olmstead was telling Michael Ausiello of The Ausiello Files that Michael’s death was necessary for more reasons than one and fans needed to understand that. “[The idea of killing him] started as a discussion with Wentworth [Miller] around Season 2. He brought up a good point: His character’s hands are as dirty as anyone’s. If you look at the initial act that he committed – robbing a bank to get into prison to break his brother out – there were ramifications to that; a lot of people got hurt. Not by them, but when they rattled the cage of the company that was after them, the body count started to pile out. And Michael was aware of this. And we’ve addressed his guilt throughout the show. But at a certain point, it felt nobler to have the character die so that others could live.” Olmstead was saying a short while back.
However, for fans looking for an even better explanation, “The Final Break” hits stores on July 21.
i know that this is not relative with what are we talking aboyt but the song hero of inglesias could defenitly characterise this movie.
What do you guys think about Matt Olmsteads concern about the final end of prison break.
Matt Olmstead Defends Tragic ‘Prison Break’ Series FinaleSays it’s a happy ending as far as he’s concerned
Fox announced that the four-year-long “Prison Break” series would come to an end as early as January. The series finale aired last night and, in true “Prison Break” fashion, it did not fail to surprise fans. Michael Ausiello of The Ausiello Files has managed to speak with Executive Producer Matt Olmstead and get him to explain why they chose such an ending for the show.
*Fans who have not seen the last episode yet are encouraged not to read any further than this – plenty of major spoilers ahead.
As Ausiello points out, diehard fans of the series (and not only) must have been gutted by the producers’ decision to have Michael killed in the series finale, after all he’s been through. However, as Olmstead explains, this has not been a means of ensuring that the series stays dead, but rather a choice they deliberately made to even things out and stay true to Michael’s character, as shown throughout the four seasons.
“[The idea of killing him] started as a discussion with Wentwoth [Miller] around Season 2. He brought up a good point: His character’s hands are as dirty as anyone’s. If you look at the initial act that he committed – robbing a bank to get into prison to break his brother out – there were ramifications to that; a lot of people got hurt. Not by them, but when they rattled the cage of the company that was after them, the body count started to pile out. And Michael was aware of this. And we’ve addressed his guilt throughout the show. But at a certain point, it felt nobler to have the character die so that others could live.” Olmstead explains.
At the same time, the idea of simply having Michael and Sara walk out in the sunset would have been not in tune with the series, even if that was what most fans would have wanted. Having Michael make a final sacrifice, instead, meant that he would die to let others live, his child included. Speaking of which, it is precisely this child that should make fans see the ending as a happy one instead of a tearjerker, Olmstead believes.
“For me, it IS a happy ending.” the executive producer says. “Look at the very first episode of the season when Michael realizes Sara’s alive. They have a chance to run away, and they both elect not to because, as two people of conscience, they can’t live with what they both now have experienced. And at the end of the finale, when they’re on the beach and talking about the baby that’s coming, that’s a huge victory in that they both stood their ground and, with the help of other people, brought down the ultimate antagonist. So they have their moment.” Olmstead explains.
For the full interview on the whys and the hows of the series finale of “Prison Break,” please see here.
‘Prison Break’ boss defends tragic twist: ‘It IS a happy ending’
WARNING: Stop reading if you have not watched the series finale of Prison Break. I mean it. Everyone else, onward and downward…
I know. Since Prison Break concluded its four-year run tonight by sending its chiseled protagonist to the big slammer in the sky, you’re grieving. You want answers. You want justice. You want someone to pay.
Would you settle for answers?
‘Cause that’s all I’ve got. But at least there are a lot of ‘em, straight from executive producer Matt Olmstead. Read ‘em and… oh, I see. You’re already weeping. Well, read ‘em, anyway. Maybe it’ll help.
Why’d you have to kill him?!
MATT OLMSTEAD: It started as a discussion with Wentwoth [Miller] around Season 2. He brought up a good point: His character’s hands are as dirty as anyone’s. If you look at the initial act that he committed — robbing a bank to get into prison to break his brother out — there were ramifications to that; a lot of people got hurt. Not by them, but when they rattled the cage of the company that was after them, the body count started to pile out. And Michael was aware of this. And we’ve addressed his guilt throughout the show. But at a certain point, it felt nobler to have the character die so that others could live. It just felt a little weird for us to have Michael and Sara holding hands on the beach walking away — though that would be gratifying in the moment. Knowing that there was pretty much a scorched path behind them in terms of what happened, [having him die] balanced the books for us. He also paid the ultimate sacrifice and, in doing so, everyone else close to him was able to live, including his child.
Michael-Sara fans will argue that they deserved a happy ending after watching these two go to hell and back for four seasons. What would you say to them?
OLMSTEAD: For me, it is a happy ending. Look at the very first episode of the season when Michael realizes Sara’s alive. They have a chance to run away, and they both elect not to because, as two people of conscience, they can’t live with what they both now have experienced. And at the end of the finale, when they’re on the beach and talking about the baby that’s coming, that’s a huge victory in that they both stood their ground and, with the help of other people, brought down the ultimate antagonist. So they have their moment.
Can we assume that we’ll learn more about the ultimate sacrifice Michael made in the two-hour direct-to-DVD prequel movie [due July 28]?
OLMSTEAD: Yes, it dramatizes what happened to Michael. The nose bleed that reared its ugly head at the end of [tonight's finale] was a factor in his ultimate demise in that he knew that he probably didn’t have that long to live, but it wasn’t the sole factor. It informed certain decisions that lead to his demise.
The two-hour movie picks up right after the finale, right?
OLMSTEAD: Yeah, it takes place fairly soon after they’re exonerated.
What’s the premise?
OLMSTEAD: Sara is on the hook for [killing] Michael’s mother and she gets locked up while pregnant. The tables are turned… once a doctor in prison now imprisoned, and Michael’s on the outside. The majority of the cast is back. It’s Michael, Lincoln, Sara, Sucre, T-Bag, Mahone… all the heavy-hitters.
Seeing Paul Adelstein back as Kellerman was a nice surprise. How’d that come about?
OLMSTEAD: We reached out to Paul and pitched him the idea of what his character would be doing, and he liked it very much. And then I told him that we would be jumping ahead four years to show where all the characters are, and I asked him where he would want [Kellerman] to be; he was included in the [creative process]. We traded a lot of e-mails and the ideas ran the gamut. We ultimately arrived at what it was, which is he rose to a position of power, but that the widow of his [former] partner that he killed revisits him. In the scene I wrote, she spits on his shoes. [On the day of shooting], I got a call from the director, Kevin Hooks, and he said, “Paul’s here, and he [thinks] she would spit in his face.” And I said, “Have at it.” So she spit in his face. And then he’s in the limo afterward and you can see that private moment where [he realizes] he can never outrun his past. That’s one of my favorite sequences in the flash-forward. He played the self-loathing and regret beautifully.
Did you encounter any problems getting ABC to loan him to you since he’s now on Private Practice?
OLMSTEAD: Everybody was very accommodating, and I think it all stems from a universal goodwill towards Paul as a person. He’s a really good guy and people wanted to do him a favor. And we were able to get all his scenes done in one day.
Was there anyone you wanted to get back for the finale and couldn’t?
OLMSTEAD: The only person we couldn’t get was Marshall Allman, who played Lincoln’s son. We would have loved to have gotten him.
Looking back on the four seasons, anything you would have done differently?
OLMSTEAD: I don’t have a whole lot of regrets. [Another journalist] wrote that we left it all out on the field by the end of the series, and I feel the same way. Every story was exhausted. Every creative juice wrung out. It was a completely worthwhile experience, and I know the other writers [agree]. It was a difficult show to pull off, and we did it.
Can someone tell me what they mean with this sentence
“PRISON BREAK: THE FINAL BREAK features deleted scenes” <<<< MEANING??:S
Co-starring Dominic Purcell (“John Doe,” Blade: Trinity), Amaury Nolasco (Street Kings, Transformers), Robert Knepper (Hostage), Jodi Lyn O´Keefe (She´s All That) and William Fichtner (Crash), PRISON BREAK: THE FINAL BREAK features deleted scenes and the two-disc BD will be available for the suggested retail price of $29.99 U.S, the DVD will be available for the suggested retail price of $26.98 U.S. Prebook is May 26.
I really think that they wont bring michael back :S
year run did you decide that Michael would die in the end?
Matt Olmstead: At the beginning of this season, we had a debate about it. I was on NYPD Blue and I came on during Season 6, which was Jimmy Smits’ last arc — and it was some of the best TV ever. They had the thought that when a character goes that’s beloved, if you drop a safe on his head, the audience is going to hate you, because they haven’t had a chance to mourn. So let’s show up early that the character has a [health] problem. [NYPD Blue creator] David [Milch] did it brilliantly [with Smits' character dying of heart failure], and I always remembered that. So when we met with the writers after the [WGA] strike, we asked ourselves: Is Michael going to last? Either way, let’s [give him] a nosebleed in Episode 1. That way we can kind of suggest that something’s up, and it also gives us the opportunity to play some scenes — if we want to go down this road — where Sara can mourn it, Lincoln’s aware of it, and the audience is aware of it. Then they too have a chance to mourn the loss.
TVGuide.com: What was Wentworth Miller’s take on the matter?
Olmstead: He ultimately liked it. He had heard rumblings, and when that script went out, a complimentary email came back from him, because he saw the merits of it. The idea of Michael not making it stemmed from a conversation he and I had in Season 2. He said that at this point [Michael's] hands were as dirty as anyone’s, and that was something we addressed along the way, this mounting guilt. “I broke my brother out of prison, the ramifications of which have included people getting killed” — neither he the actor nor the character were ignorant or dismissive of that. So the idea of a finale where [in the coda] he doesn’t make it but everyone else does was the right ending for him as an actor. For Michael to have traipsed off into the sunset with Sara may have seemed a little like, “Hey, good for you guys.”
TVGuide.com: But the network fought you on the death, right?
Olmstead: It was split over there; half the people wanted to see Sara and Michael together, and half saw the merit in Michael not making it. Once they saw the scripts, they agreed unilaterally that it was the right move to make.
TVGuide.com: It should be noted that Michael is alive in Prison Break: The Final Break (a two-hour standalone movie slated for a July 21 DVD release).
Olmstead: Right. The Final Break takes place shortly after everyone’s exoneration, so we go back and see Michael alive.
TVGuide.com: That was a nice little wink you had there with Michael Jr. getting a fake tattoo.
Olmstead: Yeah, it was [writer/co-executive producer] Nick Santora who had that idea.
im really gutted ive lived with wentworth in my life for years now hes gone
Bring back Prison Break, Olmstead says:
“Every creative juice wrung out.”, I say:
Hire me for your creative juice, theres lots of untouched storylines and paths.
For those who are happy with the series being finished, thats cool, sit back and relax, for those who are not happy, theres a petition below.
http://gopetition.com/petitions/continue-prison-break.html
does enydbody knows how is called the song that sara and sucre dance?
i really hated the 3 final episods, why in earth do micheal have to buy for everybody else’s mistakes?? and yet they are telling us well he robbed a bank to save his brother and for that he should bay ? he did his time prillent writers u cut his toes & left him on the run for 3 seasons , he should be honored , why dont u kill lincon he is a robber, sara she killed 2 people ( kim,christena)in cold blood, hell u didnt even kill tbag for gods sake!!
so, unless fox make it crystal clear that micheal is gonna be back safe and sound in this dvd , we are not gonna bay a beeny to be heart brocken again by them, we r determined to save our micheal, and like it or not writers he is a HERO
Just heartbroken
I’ve just watched the Final Break.
I don’t deny it’s a great ending to an amazing show,PB is the best show ever,but I insist the writers could let Michael live and it would still realistic.
They didn’t care about us as loyal fans.
The end could be great with a happy ending 4 Michael.IMO it’s soooooooooooo sad ..soooooooooooo tragic & even worse than any movie because we just watch any movie 4 just 2 or 3 hours ,but we have been living with PB almost 4 years.
It was like a fantastic dream & then we woke up suddenly realizing that was just a nightmare.
I don’t & I’ll never never forgive the writers how they could be so crul with us like this
Most of us r so disappointed about Michael’s loss…but any way it’s more than a great show.
Thanks so much Nikki 4 everything u did 4 us
Happy Birthday Wenty
i did not watch the final Break and maybe i will not because i can’t bear watch Michael die.all his sacrifice to who love them and he will die they must do season 5 and bring michael to life.
But i wanna say to Went:
Happy Birthday to ya Went.
yours,
Iraqi_Rose*93
PB alway made me mixed emotion but when Michael die my only feeling >>> sorrow and pain The final break made my heart break too .The great relationship between loyal fans and PB it’s look like the magic I really hurt to know that FOX didn’t care about that but I still love PB and Michael …never change my mind forever.
happy birthday to our hero wentworth
Why???? still don’t get it, why you guys have to let the character of michael die??? all he loved sara, his brother, son and friends and you guys decide this finale, come’on … you guys have to fix this.
Great!!! everything was great your series but the end of michael !! ruin it.
I love this series … but i have to say i didn;t like the final episode !!! why Michael have to die????? why????
I believe that when I saw the end of prison break was the worst day of my life, I fell ill and I was more than pushed because having seen 4 seasons of Prison Break, having seen that Michael dies shocked a lot me..
But Michael Schofield will remain engraved in my heart as hero
I just watched The Final Break. Man, it broke my heart. I have never been so wrapped up in a TV show in my whole life. I have all 4 seasons plus the Final Break. I watch them over and over. None of my friends watched it so I have no one to talk to about it. Prison Break was the best TV series that I have ever seen. You couldnt help but love the whole team and the love story between Michael and Sara was awesome. I was very sad that he died but I had a feeling either he or Linc would die in the end.
i did watch d final PB, there s one thing i learned abt this movie, s dat michael used his tactic knowledge & skills 2 won those eggs.michael my MODEL
Still not over it.
Michael the selfless hero who did anything for those he loved, was looking forward to hanging with Linc, his nephew, being a husband, being a hands-on dad, starting fresh. Yeah he deserved it. Sure it’s artful and lets use that wonderful term ‘generates buzz’ but you know what? It’s tired, it’s done and it’s not fucking acceptable. In creating their buzz, they have hurt all of Micheals family (who are now on the run again! fantastic!) broken the hearts of fans and tainted the entire show.