JJ Abrams "Alcatraz" creates controlled chaos with bomb blasts.

Jorge Garcia and Sarah Jones speak in the ambulance

A background performer plays a victim of a car bombing in the park.

Sarah Jones and Jorge Garcia in Alcatraz

The new television series, Alcatraz has been quietly filming around Vancouver for the past several months.  The premier of the latest creation to come from JJ Abrams makes its television debut on Monday January 16th on the Fox network.  JJ Abrams is also the producer or locally shot series Fringe and the executive director of Mission Impossible 4, Ghost Protocol among other popular television series and feature films.

Jorge Garcia (Lost)  makes a television comeback as Diego Soto and stars along side Sam Neill  (Jerassic Park ) as Emerson Hauser and Sarah Jones ( Sons of Anarchy) as Rebecca Madsen. 

The complete mid season series will air all episodes starting and January and ending in March.

Another Bomb Blast victim on set.

Sarah Jones and Jorge Garcia talk about boots and shoes.

Jorge Garcia takes in the scene after a pep talk from the director.

Sarah Jones gets a make-up touch -up

Jorge Garcia 

The two cars that were blow up by a car bomb.

The main Director of Photography

Sarah Jones.

"From executive producer J.J. Abrams (FRINGE, “Lost,” “Star Trek” and the upcoming “Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol” and “Super 8”) and writer and executive producer Elizabeth Sarnoff (“Lost,” “Deadwood”) comes ALCATRAZ, the chilling new thriller centered on America’s most infamous prison and one-time home to the nation’s most notorious murderers, rapists, kidnappers, thieves and arsonists. When San Francisco Police Department DET. REBECCA MADSEN (Sarah Jones, “Sons of Anarchy”) is assigned to a grisly homicide case, a fingerprint leads her to a shocking suspect: JACK SYLVANE (guest star Jeffrey Pierce, “The Nine”), a former Alcatraz inmate who died decades ago. 

Given her family history – both her grandfather and surrogate uncle, RAY ARCHER (Robert Forster, “Jackie Brown”), were guards at the prison – Madsen’s interest is immediately piqued, and once the enigmatic, knows-everything-but-tells-nothing government agent EMERSON HAUSER (Sam Neill, “Jurassic Park”) tries to impede her investigation, she’s doggedly committed. Madsen turns to Alcatraz expert and comic book enthusiast, DR. DIEGO “DOC” SOTO (Jorge Garcia, “Lost”), to piece together the inexplicable sequence of events. The twosome discovers that Sylvane is not only alive, but he’s loose on the streets of San Francisco, leaving bodies in his wake. And strangely, he hasn’t aged a day since he was in Alcatraz, when the prison was ruled by the iron-fisted WARDEN EDWIN JAMES (Jonny Coyne, “Undercovers”) and the merciless ASSOCIATE WARDEN E.B. TILLER (Jason Butler Harner, “The Changeling”). Madsen and Soto reluctantly team with Agent Hauser and his technician, LUCY BANERJEE (Parminder Nagra, “ER”), to stop Sylvane’s vengeful killing spree. 

By delving into Alcatraz history, government cover-ups and Rebecca’s own heritage, the team will ultimately discover that Sylvane is only a small part of a much larger, more sinister present-day threat. For while he may be the first, it quickly becomes clear that Sylvane won’t be the last prisoner to reappear from Alcatraz. Through the course of the investigation, Madsen and Soto will learn that Agent Hauser has known about the prison’s secret history and has been awaiting the prisoners’ return. Soto will witness his life’s work – the history of Alcatraz – come alive. Madsen will be forced to keep her supportive San Francisco cop fiancé, JIMMY DICKENS (Santiago Cabrera, “Heroes”), at arm’s length from the highly classified assignment as she sees everything she thought she knew about her family’s past shattered, all while fighting to keep the country safe from history’s most dangerous criminals.
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