<P> The fifth season of Prison Break (also known as Prison Break: Resurrection) is a limited event television series and the continuation of the original series created by Paul Scheuring that aired on Fox from 2005 to 2009 . The season is produced by 20th Century Fox Television in association with Adelstein / Parouse Productions and Original Film . Paul Scheuring serves as showrunner, with himself, Marty Adelstein, Neal H. Moritz and Dawn Olmstead, Vaun Wilmott, Michael Horowitz and Nelson McCormick serving as executive producers . McCormick also serves as director . The season premiered on April 4, 2017, and concluded on May 30, 2017, consisting of 9 episodes . </P> <P> Wentworth Miller and Dominic Purcell reprise their respective roles as Michael Scofield and Lincoln Burrows, while Sarah Wayne Callies, Amaury Nolasco, Paul Adelstein, Robert Knepper and Rockmond Dunbar also return from the original series . New cast additions include Mark Feuerstein, Inbar Lavi, Augustus Prew, Marina Benedict, Rick Yune and Steve Mouzakis . A pilot was ordered in August 2015 and the series was greenlit in January 2016 . Production on the series began in April 2016 and filming took place in Vancouver and the Moroccan cities of Rabat, Casablanca, and Ouarzazate . </P> <P> Seven years after his apparent death, Michael Scofield resurfaces in the notorious Ogygia Prison in Sana'a, Yemen, under the name Kaniel Outis . As the country is engulfed by war, two of Michael's old friends, his brother Lincoln Burrows and fellow Fox River escapee Benjamin "C - Note" Franklin, risk their lives by traveling to Yemen to bring Michael home . Back in the United States, Michael's wife Sara, now remarried, is hunted by agents of an operative known as Poseidon, the one responsible for Michael's disappearance . </P> <Ul> <Li> Wentworth Miller as Michael Scofield / Kaniel Outis </Li> <Li> Dominic Purcell as Lincoln Burrows </Li> <Li> Sarah Wayne Callies as Sara Tancredi - Scofield </Li> <Li> Paul Adelstein as Paul Kellerman </Li> <Li> Rockmond Dunbar as Benjamin Miles "C - Note" Franklin </Li> <Li> Robert Knepper as Theodore "T - Bag" Bagwell </Li> <Li> Amaury Nolasco as Fernando Sucre </Li> <Li> Mark Feuerstein as Jacob Anton Ness / Poseidon </Li> <Li> Inbar Lavi as Sheba </Li> <Li> Augustus Prew as David "Whip" Martin </Li> </Ul>

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