OlderSarah Wayne Callies: Back from the Dead!
In one crazy unexpected twist, Sarah Wayne Callies is coming back to Prison Break next season!!!
Yes, even after her character, Dr. Sara Tancredi was unexpectedly beheaded last season. Apparently she had a contract dispute with 20th Century last year but that’s all been resolved.
In the fourth episode of season three (”Good Fences”), Sara’s head was presumably decapitated, placed in a box, and sent to Lincoln Burrows. So how can she be written back into the series?
Prison Break executive producer Matt Olmstead tells TV Guide,”Lincoln glanced at the head in the box for a split second. That could’ve been anyone. He wasn’t about to pull it up from the hair and inspect it closely.”
Olmstead also admitted that the fans affected the decision to bring back Sarah. “…once we started talking about it, it was mentioned again that fans are still wondering about her. And when people who are fans of the show — and of Sarah — are asking, “Is she really dead?”, what they’re saying, essentially, is, “I hope she’s not dead.”
WHAT DO YOU THINK of bringing SWC back to life??
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That’s Great!!! I can’t wait!! Sarah is great!!
Wow…I wish I could say I’d start watching PB again…but nooo
its a bit far fetched since she was decapitated but shes needed on the show. they spent to much time building the relationship between michael and her.
Love it. Michael needs to have a love in his life. Great!!!!!!!!!!
omg
I’m not surprised. They have been hinting at this and there has been alot of speculation online, especially after the last episode.
HELL YES!
OMG! This is so amazing! I’m so happy she is coming back.
SARA!!! yeah… that’s great! i missed her!!
MiSa forever xD
Jump the Shark!
it would be awesome to have sarah back in prison break. i have watched prison break from day 1 and no matter what i will keep watching and not miss anything but it would be so cool to have sarah back and that would make michael very happy to have her in his arms again.
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is as crazy as “Pamela dream” on Dallas
I am so excited that this is happening. I so called it when that episode aired. Hello, anyone’s head could have been in that box.
I am so excited to hear that they worked out whatever contract issues that had prevented her from returning in Season 3 and am super excited to see what they do with the fourth season!!!
It will be easy to bring her back as although she was supposedly beheaded all we saw was a “head” in a box and LJ said he “heard” her being killed so there was always room for speculation. SWC really played her cards right and probably negotiated a mega deal b4 agreeing to come back. MISA fans are probably salivating with this news. I love PB but only watched S3 to see the delectable Mr Miller, Roll on S4 with the promise of new twists and turns.
Great news! I stopped watching the show when they killed Sarah and now I’m gonna start watching it again. Michael and Sarah are meant to be…
YESSS!! Finally!! Best news of the day!
That’s GREAT news! Prison Break isn’t the same without Sarah, we all want Sarah and Michael to get together at the end and they couldn’t because she was “dead’. I can’t wait 2 see Sarah again… in Wenty’s arms ofcourse!
Yes,Yes,Yes!!!!!!!!
Please, bring SWC back! Then i’ll start watching the show again, since i had stoped watching when she was dead…
who cares how about alot of people stopped watching since the second season…lolol
Awwww….i will watch again
Worst move ever. This will certainly be the last season of Prison Break.
I tune into the show for action and clever thinking on the part characters, not to watch some stiff romance that has all the passion of poo.
Soooooooooooooooo happy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Finally! Now I will start watching again! When they killed her off on the show I stopped watching. Yay!!
Finally! Now I will start watching again! When they killed her off on the show I stopped watching. Yay!!
You’re f*cking kidding me, right? Riiiight???
*throws up a little in mouth*
HEEEEEEEEELLL YEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAS!!!!!
I have to start watching again! Cause without her the show was not worth watch!
HELL YES! MiSa is BACK!!!!
AWESOME!
Now, i love Fox and Nick! THANK YOU!!!
Michael and Sara FOREVER<3
I love her. I’m glad she’s back. YAY Sarah and Went
I Love You Went
You sexy thing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
why did you ruin what was going to happen??
Ugh…
This is the best news ever, i was so ticked off when they killed sara off, yay cant wait
wooooooooooooooooooooooow i’am so happy i love callies she’s soooooooo nice so sweet love pb i’am glad she’s coming back
THANKS JARED YOU ARE MAKING MY DAY
How can anyone be surprised by this? It was so obvious that she was going to come back, at least it was to me.
omg that’s so great!
when i heard about sarah’s dead i get sad but now i’m so so so happy that i’m jumping around the room!
lol
YAY!!!!
That it STUPID!!!!!!!!!! They should have kept her dead. what the f*ck is the point on making Michael go on this whole killing thing if they are gonna bring her stupid a$$ back. PRISON BREAK CAN ************. THEY’VE TURNED A GOOD SHOW INTO A MAGIC SHOW . LAME I AM SOOOOOOOOOO NOT WATCHING!!!!!!!!!!
OMG!!!! I’ve been waiting for them to bring her back since last season! I thought they might do something like that because they were very brief when looking at the head in the box. I stopped watching the show after that decapitation episode, but if they bring her back I will start watching again. I loved Michael and Sara together.
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sara and Went forever!!!!!!
awwww cant wait!! awww MISA MISA MISA MISA!!
and I forgot!! Finally more MiSa but also new WESAH interviews!!
WESAH awwwww
YESSSSSS! Checked the date first, it’s not an april fool…. I’m so happy. I so wanted to see WM smile again in this show!!!!
I really can’t wait! I love Michael and Sara *sigh*
OMFG!
AWWWWWWWWWEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMME!
Her death was the reason i stopped watching!!!
MISA IS BAAAAAAAABYYYY:D
I can’t wait to see Sarah back on the show! It’ll give Michael something to work for. The chemistry between them was sizzzzzzzzling!
its about time! Im so excited. I love prison break and Im glad they didnt do something stupid and try to get someone else to be Micheal’s love. Whohoo! Micheal and Sarah live on!
Yes bring her back!
i smell poo
******* awesome!
I love it!
she is soo great
i´m really happy =)
I found this: we can hope …………….
Updated! Click in to get the whole interview and find out about the future of the doctor and the fugitive, how Sarah the actress was brought back into the fold, and what’s in store for the whole gorgeous chain gang in season four…
If you’re wondering about the obvious question, i.e., “How? How will Sara return when she doesn’t have a freaking head?!” Well, Olmstead makes it clear that Sara’s head after all and she’s been alive, but not necessarily well, this whole time.
Prison Break
I’m so glad to talk to you about this because we literally get floods of emails about Sarah Wayne Callies and her character Sara Tancredi. “Sara, Sarah, save our doctor, oh my god we miss her so much,” so there’s some seriously happy people out there right now.
Good.
Sarah Wayne Callies, the actress will be back, but does that mean Dr. Sara Tancredi be back? Is it really her evil twin? What is this all mean?
No, she’s the real deal. Sara Tancredi is back.
And it’s in the present day? It’s not a season entirely in flashback—she’ll walk in the door, and she joins the story in progress?
Season four is jumping-forward, hit-the-ground-running storytelling. But we are dropping back, in flashback, and explaining how the characters got to where they are and the situation with her, certainly.
So by the middle of the season you’ll be caught up, story-wise?
We’ll be caught up sooner than that. It’s not like a 50/50 thing where it’s half present-day, half in flashback. The flashbacks are much more economical, and you’ll get it fairly quickly. There are some mysteries that we’re going to extend out, but it’s not going to be the bulk of the season.
Now, internally are you planning season four as a 22-episode season?
Yes.
As I said, we’ve gotten emails galore about Sara(h), and I’m sure you’ve gotten a few of your own. Was this decision made because the fans were so vociferous about how much they wanted her back? Or had this been part of your overall plan for the character? How did this come about?
It wasn’t because of the fans that we did that, but it was the combination of the fans’ reactions on the boards and emails and people we, the writers, know personally would ask about it. And that led us all to have conversations internally, about the fact that there were a lot of people out there are asking “Is she really dead?”
We knew internally that when we didn’t get Sarah Wayne Callies to come back in season three and be there to portray her character’s death, as soon as it was written and filmed and we saw it on screen, we knew that it was actually a way you could describe how this wasn’t Sarah’s head in the box, basically. But at that point, we were going forward with other stories, so we kind of put that on the back burner.
But throughout that time we watched how people externally were really talking about what we thought might be the case, internally: The question of, “Is Sara Tancredi really dead?” So throughout season three we were mindful of references we’d make to and who took credit for killing her and all kinds of stuff regarding her death.
Ultimately, we came back after the strike to talk about season four, and that’s when a bunch of things kind of came together, and we then had the big conversation. Is Sarah really alive and can we bring her back? And once we opened it up, it happened really quickly.
How did Sarah Wayne and Wentworth feel about this?
Wentworth is abroad promoting the show and I sent him an email, I have yet to hear back from him, I’m sure he’s going to very excited about it, but in terms of Sarah Wayne…Initially, the way these things work, there has to be an offer first, so once our pitch about how the Sarah character would be a part of the season was approved and met enthusiastically, the offer went out. And once the offer was on the table, that’s when Sarah Wayne and I spoke, and I told her what I had in mind creatively, because what we have in mind is something she can definitely sink her teeth into creatively.
It’s not just you pick her back up, and she’s there as the loyal girlfriend and “Michael, go do your thing, and I’ll be waiting for you when I get back.” Again, we’re jumping forward story-wise. There will be a bit of a mystery period where we cover what happened. It becomes about Michael trying to figure out what happened to her. It’s his attempt to reclaim her, and her trying to figure out what happened and dealing with it. So laying all that out to Sarah, the actress, she liked that, and so she slept on it, and then we made a deal.
The end of season three seemed to imply that season four would have something to do with Michael avenging Sarah’s murder. How does her return change any plans you had and what can you tell us about season four?
You know, the strike through a wrench into things in that there was no back nine for us, telling about all those stories, so we were asked to go right to a season four, instead of just picking up moments later, we took that opportunity to be ambitious about it, so we’re jumping ahead picking up down the road. There’s a fresh aspect to it, but there’s a mystery aspect to it.
How did these people get there? How is that person talking to this person? And then we’re dropping back and answering those questions, so it becomes about slowly discovering how Sarah got back, how Michael found her, those type of things.
If Sarah’s back, will there finally be some romance and maybe some sex for Sarah and Michael?
Yes! They are finally together, but like I said there have always been these physical barriers between them. He was incarcerated, she worked in the prison hospital, so obviously there’s a barrier. He was on the run, she was in another part of the country, there’s a barrier.
Here they are finally able to be together, but we are jumping ahead [in time], so there’s that period that’s unaccounted for, so what happened to her, what happened to him and hope they both help each other get past that, get past these…invisible barriers.
There’s no physical barriers anymore between them, but they’re both pretty banged up when they see each other, and it’s about how they get past that to really find that real intimacy.
So they’re not necessarily living together in suburbia with a dog and a baby, but they reconnect and we’re sort of watching them get to know each other again?
I mean it’s Prison Break, so they’re all still trying to clear their names avoid jail time avoid death and so there’s still that locomotive feel to it, storytelling-wise, and while that’s going on on, on the fly, these two people are trying to save each other.
I know the women’s prison spinoff was under consideration for a while. Is that still something you’d think you’d want to do?
Very much so. We’re working on a script, but right we’re focused on season four Prison Break, and then we’ll spin that off.
OMFG!!!!
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!
YES!
YES!!!
What a great news!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I knew this day will come!!! I am sooo back and cannot wait for the season to start! Thank you Fox and SWC for thinking of the fans.
Serious shark-jumping. This kind of thing is always a huge risk - if you don’t have the guts to keep characters dead, how are the viewers going to be able to trust any plot points you give them after that?
Thank gAWD!!!!!!!!!! More Went and Sara interview! They have the best chemistry on and off screen!
Gawd I’m calling all my friends right now!!! OMFG!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OMFG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dial *911*
I think I’ll be having a heart attack! OMG, this is GREAT NEWS!!!
SWC I ove you! I knew you’ll never disappoint your fans!
OMG! I would love to see Michael and Sara smooching again!
ridiculous
oh thanks jared could you put that under spolier tags
IT’S THE BEST THING THAT PRODUCERS COULD’VE DONE!!!!!!!
One of the main reasons I watched the show was to watch Michael and Sara. I CAN’t WAIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
obviously she couldn’t find another job.
NO! …this is ridiculous.
gosh lincoln didnt lift the smelly head by the hair and open its eyes while calling out ‘Sara, Sara’, what was he thinking? i was glad when they killed her off, as it meant they avoided making the show into a slushy romance.
i guess we can read more into Mahones words then:
“She better be able to handle a lot more then that because if she has done what you think she has…Sara, she’s the weak link and he will find her and then scofield will find you and me and im not paying for your mess”
i just hope they do something believable, i tryst they will!
& also like number 31, you coulda put a spolier alert or something on it so it didnt ruin what was going to happen! (Y)
[☆F a m o u s☆] @ 03/27/2008 at 6:00 pm
obviously she couldn’t find another job.
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keep your nasty comments for yourselfffffffffff sara is GREAT TALENTED DEVOTED MOM SWEET HOT SMART KIND PERFECTTTTTTTTTTTTT AND BELOVED
misa team for eveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeer
GREAT GREAT NEWS! I STOPPED WATCH THE SHOW BECAUSE OF HER DEPERTURE, NOW I WILL WATCH IT AGAIN!
HOPE FOR SOME LOVE BETWEEN MICHAEL AND SARA IN SEASON 4
even that i like the chick…this show is now officially soap opera !
YES !!!
Season 3 was soooo boring without the michael-sarah-storyline.
*Deap breath*
Ohhhhhh myyyyyyy gooooossssshhh !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yey! *celebrates* I don’t care how cheesy this is…I love it! Can’t wait!
i think it would be cool if they brought her back but im not sure if it will make sense because didn’t LJ tell Michael that he saw that crazy lady(can’t remember her name) kill Sarah??
thats the greatest news ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! sara is crucial to the show and without her michael would be the one who sacraficed the most but lost everything…. im so happy she will be back !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THAT SO FREAKIN’ AWESOOOOOME !!!!!!!!!
I’ll go back to watching now!
Yessssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss!
OMG! I’m so happy!!!!!
I’ve been waiting for such a long time to hear this!!!! This is fantastic!!!
Sarah, we love you!!!!
Yesss!!!!
Yes! yes! yes! Awesome…..Sarah should come back…it would get the show back on the right track….I love it!
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!
wow really cnt believe this
this is beyond!!! this is freakin AWESOME!!!!!!!!!
they truly cant believe bringing back the most irrelevant character will help save the show.
her last season on the show she did absolutely NOTHING. lol
i knew it..i thought it was a fake head..ithoughtnand dreamed of geting Sarah back,,it seems lke the dream will become real..
though i’ve put some predictions after she was killed
i thought like Michael will kill susan at the end,,and the company will kill him,,and he’s gonnat meet Sarah in heaven!!!
now i’m sure there gonnat be more then just the 4 seasons..
right?
YAY!!!!!!!!!!! I KNEW IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It’s ridiculous! are they Prison Break or Days of Our Lives? I think I’m over Prison Break now anyway……pity it started out as an amazing show
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! yay!!!!!
i’m just soooo happy!! this is the best news
PERFECT! Ah, I was so sad when I saw that episode where she “died”. Michael and Sara belong together!
oh my god, YES! I have been WAITING for this for MONTHS now. Ever since the horrible shot of her “head” in the box.
I actually stopped watching the series as a result…..that and it got extremely boring when they found themselves in the other prison.
Yay! I totally lost interest in the show when they killed Sara, but I’m going to start watching again .
YAYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!! i quite watching the show b/c of her death now i will watch it again!!
Sara coming back is the only reason I’m going to start watching Prison Break again!
Bringing back the characters who are residents of the “Prisney Gravelend” to the show doesn’t matter. This is an ensemble cast – and the show is not a love story either though each character should be given their respective love interest to spice up a little bit.
What should the TV series do is focus the story line on the “brothers” and that the writers should give light on the “red herrings” that made the show a little bit bizarre that started on the mid of Season 2. I also hope they bring back the character of Peter Stormare (the mob boss).
Let’s just wait and see if bringing back the dead would help the ratings of the show.
GOOD LUCK!
Bring on the good stuff!!!
YES!!!!!!!! I love you heavenly father! Gwad miracles do come true!!!
WooHoo. I too stopped watching because they killed her off. but will start watching again. I’m so glad the fox listened to what the viewers want!!!
Are you kidding me???
I don’t know what is worst: read she is coming back or people saying they stopped to watch the show because of a couple!
LAMEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!
i kinda figured she was comming back,i did my research.
but yes,she should come back for sure !
it hasen’t been the same without some romance
hahaha
That makes sense. “Weren’t you dead? We saw your head in a box.” “I had counted on the fact that you weren’t morbid enough to inspect the details.”
Well if they can fake Steadman’s death why not do that to Sara’s character as well!
Woohoooooooooooooo!!! I love this day!!! I love SWC!!! She’s f3cking hot and gorgeous.
And yeah, a great actress too. Like woah!
wow. i might actually start watching this show again.
one of my favorite shows and i am over the moon she is returning…
I completely agree season 3 really slowed the series down (not just because of Sara’s death) It just didn’t compare at all to the other two…but at the end of the finale i was excited for all the things they could do in season 4. After all there have been few series that haven’t suffered lulls and season 3 was PB’s. Now it’s time to get back to business and I’m so glad SWC is a part of it.
Yea!
That is the dumbest thing that I ever heard!! After all that we went through in season 3 how could they possibly bring her back now. I think this will all backfire….its a BIG mistake!!!
I think, it’s bullshit. Prison Break it’s a drama&action, not a romantic opera. I hope, it’s fake.
Oh ***** no. Although I didn’t like the way they handled it, her departure was one of the best things about S3. I just can’t believe it… I don’t think I’m going to be able to watch anymore.
I’m really excited when 20 brings back Sarah. The show is boring without Michael and Sara together.
Well Sara’s character is just not there for all the romance! Cut it out people, some of you are just upset that Went will have a makeout scene again that doesn’t involve you! Sheeesh! How pathetic.
If you want gore and vengeance, I think it’s safe to say that Sara Tancredi has every right and the best character to do so. For f3ck sake she was tortured, hunt down to kill, and HER FATHER DIED because of the company. So cut the crap about her being there just for the romance. There is more to her character than a damsel in distress.
I think that bringing SWC’s character will add more storyline for season 4. For season 3, it was kind of a set back and they don’t have more materials rather than the exhausting and repetitive concept of breaking out off Prison.
OMG I am really looking forward to S4.
OMG I am really looking forward to S4.
YAY! It didn’t look like her head in the box anyway.
i loved michael with sara.. and i was sad a lot when sara had to die..
but.. sara’s coming to life again after the beheaded scene?
riciculous.. kidding..
the pb’s writers try to make us fools.
it’s crazy.. very very funny.
OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i always knew that they’d bring her back!
This is a great news!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But writers won’t even admit mistake!obviously they are bringing her back cause of ratings and show was so bad without her,Michael could never get happy ending without Sara!
OMG! Thank you, thank you thank you!!!
Michael ending up with Sara makes it all worthwhile!
omg yay i knew they would bring her back wif lj saying that he only heard it..n linoln not actualy taking the head out to inspect it=]….this is good i cant wait till season 4!
They hintd that she wasnt dead in the last episode ……I mean come on you people arent that slow
GREAT
I’m so happy to hear that!!!!!!!
Now, can’t wait to see how they will do it
Yipeeeeeeeeee…I am so glad they came to their senses and brought SWC back. Now, we can see Michael smile again. The show was crap without her. There was nothing for to look forward to but now there is. Thankyou to all who for their efforts in bringing the good doctor back.
That was a really stupid move
and people are even lamer for wanting it to happen
*really rolling eyes to the back of my eye sockets…
it’s great !!!!!!!
Sara and Michael~~~~~
Yes-yes- yes……………. I always knew that they could bring her back. This is going to make season 4 not only much better and much more interesting. Can hardly wait!! PRISON BREAK IS BACK.
Oh goody! Maybe Veronica will be next!!!
*Putting on goggles and nose plug as we prepare to jump the shark*
HOW LAME IS THIS!?!?!?
First the writers rip an idea from Brad Pitt’s movie “Seven”
and now this?
I will definitely not watch Prison Break!
Fire the writers please!!!
I CAN’T TAKE THIS ANYMORE
Too unbelievable, what they try to shove down our throats!
Boycott Fox!
Is Went really in L.A.? Haven’t seen any pictures yet, I bet he’s not.
its probably the best new i had heard in the last months! i was quite sure she wasnt dead, but this was what i needed to be completly relaxed
Matt Olmstead should know that all the fans of prison break are looking forward to a nice meeting between sara and michael
This is great!!!
I can’t wait to see Michael when he sees her!!! Michael is greeeeat but when he’s with Sara, there’s no explination to that…
GREAT NEW! Thanks
Yaaaa
Sarah is back..i love her
SWC is back for Season 4!!! Oh happy day it is.
Garsh thank you!!! THANK YOU. THaNK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!
Love the idea. but totally impossible.
And didnt LJ say that he say them decapitate Sara’s head?
That is great news! Dr. Tancredi was a vital character to Prison Break. Michael Scofield needs her!
I missed Sarah..I’m so glad she coming back! yay!
thats why you hire great writers
THE BEST NEWS EVERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!
I love PB, was sad when Sara disappeared but I know that the clamor of the fans will bring her back. The writers can go around with the speculation that she was beheaded. Looking forward to PB Season 4!!!
Thanks for this spectacular news Jared.
The next recurrent will Kellerman, and then Veronica, Abruzzi, Tweener, Haywire… And the show will go to the ****.
Just when Wentworth’s acting was starting to get really good….guess we’ll be back to boring old Scofield next season.
I think I am one of the rare few who actually wanted her dead…Not because I didn’t like her… But because it would give Wentworth’s character the oppertunity to really shine and show what he as an actor can really do.
If they decide to bring her back they are just limiting the potential Wentworth Miller really has and thats a shame!