| Show Prison Break plot comes to Utah Tyler Thomsen butin Writer I Last year the Fox network piloted a new drama series with a theme unlike any other Prison Break is a show about Michael Schofield and his plans to help his brother who was framed for murder escape from death row Schofield went to prison himself and carried out an elaborate plan to escape with his brother and several other prisoners This season he escaped and made his way to find money that was allegedly hidden by DB Cooper after he hijacked a plane for ransom in 1974 It was hidden in Utah Throughout the season cities like American Fork and Tooele have been ment mentioned in episodes as the escapees escapee's destinations to find the money And the escaped prisoners raced against each other and the authorities to get there first On Mondays Monday's episode they all arrived at the same place at the same time The setting for the episode was mostly in Tooele where the money was buried But the episode wasn't actually filmed here in Utah You could tell it wasn't Tooele they were in It didn't look anything like it said Tyler Slack a Tooele resident According to Tooele City Recorder Sharon Dawson the city of Tooele is generally unaware of their city's involvement in the hit series and the city is is in not aware of any filming Tooele for the show And according to Frank Park with Tooele County they are not aware of any filming that has taken place either There were other places in Utah that were also involved in the plot The agents tracking down the prisoners made stops in the FBI building in Salt Lake and used it for their local headquarters These scenes weren't filmed on location either Another obvious giveaway was the freeway they were driving on is not any freeway here in Utah That show is shot totally in California said Fox networks network's Amber Nothing in that show is shot on location According to they just film it all there to save money Other shows and movies have had Utah as their setting but have actually filmed on location Disney uses the Salt Lake area to tomake tomake tomake make a lot of their Disney Channel movies The new popular teen movie High School Musical was filmed at East High in Salt Lake Disney also filmed scenes for the third Pirates of the Caribbean movie on the Salt Flats last summer Other films such as Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and National Treasure had scenes filmed in Utah |
