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Netflix rom-com Voicemails for Isabelle premiered in L.A. on Tuesday, co-starring Lukas Gage while he also works on a very different project: the upcoming Prison Break reboot.

The series serves as an update to Fox’s crime drama series, which ran from 2005 to 2009 with a revival season airing in 2017. The new show will be set in the same world as the previous version but will follow a new cast of characters, starring Gage, Emily Browning, Drake Rodger, Clayton Cardenas, JR Bourne, Georgie Flores and Myles Bullock.

On the carpet, Gage told The Hollywood Reporter that they are currently in the middle of filming, and “we’re paying respect to the amazing TV show that I grew up loving but it’s also on Hulu now, it’s not on Fox, so we can get really gritty and get really dark. It’s gonna be crazy, it’s gonna be a wild ride.”

He added that although it’s a new cast “we might see a couple of OGs coming back;” the original revolved around two brothers, played by Dominic Purcell and Wentworth Miller. The reboot will also feature “a lot of amazing character actors” Gage said, noting, “I’m working with Margo Martindale right now and that’s like a character actor dream world, that show.”

For now though, he’s appearing alongside Zoey Deutch and Nick Robinson in Voicemails for Isabelle, which follows a young woman (Deutch) who leaves confessional voicemails to her late sister; they are unknowingly redirected to a stranger (Robinson), and he begins to fall in love with her from afar.

Writer-director Leah McKendrick said she made the film as “a love letter to my little sister, who is alive and well but is the great love of my life and taught me what true love was, long before I experienced it romantically.”

Deutch originally read the script seven years ago and has been trying to get it off the ground ever since. That was made even easier by the fact that she and Robinson had grown up in L.A. together, as he noted, “it was fun to finally be able to have an opportunity to work together. We’d had a few movies that came and went” and never ended up being shot.

Deutch added of their connection, “Especially when you are portraying these people who have, like, instant chemistry and connection, that’s hard to artificially replicate. With history and time and friendship on your side, I think that can help create that energy.”

Voicemails for Isabelle starts streaming Friday on Netflix.