Prison Break – The Movie – Episode 3
by CBB
This turns the final episodes 14-22 of the TV show PRISON BREAK season 1 into a 2h30 movie experience. The escape is finally happening.
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(17 votes, average: 9.06 out of 10, rated)
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original film name: Prison Break (episodes 14-22)
new film name : Prison Break – The Movie – Episode 3
film studio name : 20th Century Fox Television
edit crew name : CBB
Date Original Film Was Released : 2005/2006
Date Edit Was Released : September, 2008
Original Runtime : 9×42 min aka 378 min
New Runtime : 153 min
Amount of time Cut/Added : about 225 minutes cut
Fanedit details:
After the first try to escape has failed, the team around Michael Scofield has to think of another way, but it’s a suicide one. Time is never on their side and lots of things happen to prevent the escape.
Two new team members join the escape crew, Abruzzi returns from the hospital and Bellick clearly senses that something is going on. The finale Of Prison Break season 1 is one long lasting thrill ride. Creating a movie from these events required a lot of careful handling about what could be included into the plot and what not. Again a huge part of the original is the conspiracy, trying to blame Lincoln Burrows for a crime he did not commit. Most of these events take place outside of Fox River, but some directly affect the actions inside of the prison.
To create a working plot that continues the two other movies was a very difficult thing to do and required a lot of restructuring.
Episode 16 of season 1 is flashback episode showing the pasts of the escape crew, which was completely dropped. Episode 22 was all about the escape after the prison break. Only some very few elements of that were used, because I wanted to end the movie with the escape and not with a cliffhanger.
The most difficult part of the edit was about Sarah Tankredi. In The original show, she was given information about Lincoln’s innocence, which then made her help Michael to go on with the escape. But since she never gained that knowledge in the movies, I was forced to find a very different way for the escape to succeed. In the end I actually prefer my way.
With 2h33 Episode 3 is rather long, but I could not drop much more without destroying the plot or the mood.
The changes:
- - again all the conspiracy plot is completely gone. This also includes the meeting between Lincoln and his father and all the events around LJ Burrows.
- - the flashback episode was removed
- - the escape after the prison break is almost gone at all. There was too much drama in it and it all pointed towards a cliffhanger for season 2.
- - the real estate events are kept very short. Geary tries to sell Scofield’s cell, but C.Noe and T-Bag are not joining this stupid poker game in the prison kitchen.
- - Sarah does not receive any information about Lincoln’s innocence, so she also does not talk to her father about it.
- - episode 15 about the execution that is prevented by Lincoln’s father is completely removed
- - Lincoln’s dreams are gone
- - several scenes about Michael’s insanity were removed because they were over the top. If he was planning to be sent to psych ward, he would not have gone that far. Most of these scenes were meant to confuse the audience about Michael’s state of mind.
- - removed Sucre hiding from the guard, when he fills the hole. That scene was one of the typical “he almost got caught scenes” and felt a bit too much like a TV show.
- - removed some of the scenes with Bellick and Tweeneer. There were too many of them.
- - Michael just takes the pills in psych ward unlike in the original, where he starts a senseless discussion and is finally forced to take them.
- - removed C-Note not getting his savings from his friends. He received a terrible beat-up for that as well (removed, but the bruises in his face clearly show in the movie, yet are not explained). Since I wanted to drop that stupid poker game, C-Note had to be able to get his money right ahead.
- - reworked the scene with the stolen keys of Sarah. This time she does not have the lock exchanged. Toughest editing job for this movie. Sarah still acts cold towards Michael, but most of all, because he is behaving so strange. A lot of drama had to be removed, since her trust was not broken.
- - added key scene, when the escapees approach the infirmary
DVD DETAILS
- 153 minutes NTSC 1.78:1 anamorphic widescreen with AC3-5.1 audio
- LANGUAGES : ENGLISH (5.1), no subtitles
- MENUS : still with sound / animated transitions
- SCENE SELECTION : yes
- ExTRAS: The ones you did not meet, PB movie quiz, easter egg (pretty hard to find)
- CBB OVERVIEW : yes, for all 28 fanedits
- COVER&Disc ART : yes, on DVD-Rom part
Your intention for this fanedit:
I am a true fan of Season One of Prison Break. Still I hardly ever watch the entire show, because it is that long. I find the idea of a TV show being turned to a movie fascinating and this show seemed perfect to try that, so I could enjoy it in an acceptable amount of time and maybe even very different to the original show.
My goal was to create an action and suspense filled movie about a genius attempt to break out of a maximum security prison.
Your way to achieve your intention:
At first my idea was to make ONE movie out of the entire first season, but this did not work, because too much important plot was involved to make the final escape happen. Characters needed introduction and interaction. Side plots were necessary for the main plot. So I decided to create more than one movie and put in each of them as much as possible to a) create an entertaining, fast paced movie and b) stay true to the show.
It was very difficult to achieve this for several reasons:
1) the show is heavily scored. If you cut somewhere, you always have to re-arrange or sometimes even create a new score to make it fit to the previous scene. Luckily I own the soundtrack and it sure helped a lot.
2) a TV show blends in the credits, when the show is running. Several scenes could not be dropped, where the credits are displayed.
3) TV shows air as episodes, which means that every episode has a beginning and an end, is a complete watching experience. In a movie it feels really strange, if it has an episodic touch. To get a continuity of the plot meant a lot of rearranging and sometimes restructuring of the scenes. I used quite some of the transitions that the show also uses, but a lot less of them.
Hardware and software information:
Hardware:
- Windows XP computer
- with an X2 6000 dual core cpu
- and 4 GB of RAM on an ASUS board
Software:
- Womble MPEG DVD Wizard
- Ulead Media Studio Pro 8.0
- Vegas Video 7.0
- Cinema Craft Encoder
- Cinematize Pro
- Virtual Dub
- Adobe Audition 1.5
- Pro Show Producer
- Jasc Paint Shop Pro
- PhotoZoom Pro2
- DVD Lab Pro 1.52
- Cyberlink Power DVD
- Irfan View
- PGCDemux
- AnyDVD
Time needed for the edition:
half a year of planning (on and off), 2 weeks of editing (video and audio) and 3 days for cover art and DVD authoring.
persons involved:
just me, me, me.
thank you:
AvP, Winnie,Nono, Heinrich, ThrowgnCpr
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Already? thanks! cant wait to see how it ends, well i already know, but you know what i mean!
Review by Wayne — September 29, 2008 @ 2:27 pm
This is a comment for all 3 episodes of the Prison Break Movie. I loved the original series of Prison Break, and was curious to see how this cut would work. WOW! Keeping us focused on purely the break out and forgetting about the outside world makes for an intense ride! Its always fun to see and hear how Boon decides to cut or change things in the special features! Recommended!
Review by heavyg — March 5, 2009 @ 12:56 pm
It would be amazing if you could patch Seasons 2, 4 (3 if needed) into a actually decent ending.
The rest of the tattoo escape plan after the prison, being chased by a crazed FBI agent. Ending with pregnant Sara and Michael alive with the money.
Review by Human Shield — May 23, 2009 @ 12:45 am
I gave all 3 episodes a 10.
Great entertainment and now I’m thinking that I need to watch the entire series.
Thanks for this great effort Boon!
Review by zeppelinrox — May 29, 2009 @ 3:18 am
i joined this site just to say how much i enjoyed this “movie”
from everything ive heard about/seen, i would have most likely found all the exterior subplots highly annoying to say the least
but the prison break part, that was fantastic
i couldnt find a single hard cut or noticeable problem in any of the 3 discs
and i loved how you made a ending for it, i definitely dont have interest in watching the rest of the series, unless you are doing a similar version of Season 2
anyway, thanks again!
Review by f-town — August 26, 2009 @ 8:32 am
A nice ending to a great idea. At first, I thought ‘how can trimming SO much still work?’, but it really does! I thoroughly enjoyed the 3 discs and I also like the epilogue that you added at the end of this one. A fun, creative idea very well executed.
I’ll give this one a 9/10. Super solid and entertaining.
Review by Ripplin — October 24, 2009 @ 7:14 pm
Thank you for putting this together. By far, the best fanedit out there. A lot of the reason for that is that you made something that I was not particularly interested in, a hour-long TV drama, into something instantly compelling and exciting.
I also really liked the epilogue. There’s gotta be some satisfaction that after all the hard work you put in, you get to write your ending. I dig it.
I second the lack of interest in season 2, unless you figure out a way. Not to be greedy, but it seems like your talents could be better served on another TV show edit.
Thanks again. 10/10- not to be missed.
Review by DutchMasters — February 14, 2010 @ 2:31 pm