It wasn’t Sara Tancredi’s head in that box!

By Mike

March 28, 2008 in Television

What if years later Brad Pitt told us that it wasn’t really Gwyneth Paltrow’s head in that box at the end of the super creepy Se7en?

Would it ruin the movie? Heck yes!

So what the heck is Prison Break doing to us? The show that I cannot seem to quit not only gets renewed for a fourth season, but now word comes from Kristin at E! Online that Sarah Wayne Callies will reprise her role as Sara Tancredi.

Are you kidding me? Part of the emotion and power of the season (And let’s face it, there really wasn’t much) was the fact that Sara had her head whacked off and stuffed in a box, which was then sent to Lincoln.

Now, we never got to see the contents, so they can say what they want to now to bring her back. And I actually don’t mind, because I really liked her character and honestly, that show needs a woman or two here and there.

Here is what executive producer Matt Olmstead has to say about all this:

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 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.

You can read the whole interview with Olmstead in which he talks about Callies and other season 4 stuff.

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