Breaking Bad Movie in the Works From Creator Vince Gilligan
Break out the blue meth: Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan is working on a two-hour movie extension of the Emmy-winning drama, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Details are frustratingly scarce at this point: We don’t know whether the Breaking Bad movie will be released theatrically, or air on AMC, as the series did from 2008 to 2013. We don’t know if it’s a continuation of the original series, or a prequel, or a spinoff. And we don’t know if original stars Bryan Cranston, Aaron Paul, Anna Gunn, Dean Norris and others will return to reprise their roles.
We do know that Gilligan will pen the script and executive-produce the film, and possibly direct it as well. The movie “will be set in the existing Breaking Bad franchise,” according to sources. The plot involves “the escape of a kidnapped man and his quest for freedom” (does that sound like Jesse Pinkman to anyone?), and production is set to begin in (where else?) New Mexico next month.
Breaking Bad starred Cranston as chemistry teacher Walter White, who turned to manufacturing meth after being diagnosed with cancer. It was a critical darling and cult hit, winning a pair of Emmys for Outstanding Drama Series, along with 14 other Emmy wins. The cast of Breaking Bad reunited at this summer’s San Diego Comic-Con to celebrate the show’s tenth anniversary.
The Breaking Bad universe, of course, already lives on in AMC’s prequel series Better Call Saul, which just wrapped up its fourth season last month and is already renewed for a fifth, which will air next year. Gilligan serves as a co-creator and executive producer on that series as well.
Wasn’t expecting this tonight. I guess this means we won’t see Jessie and Walter in Better Call Saul then.
I’m pretty sure Aaron Paul is past being able to play a teenager, so…
Scenes have taken place post-Breaking Bad and during Breaking Bad.
This news, along with The Walking Rick, seems to indicate that AMC is trying to remind us what the M stands for.
Meh?
Meth?
Interesting and surprising news! can’t wait to learn more details about the movie in the future!
Count me in, movie, TV-movie or whatever, I have faith in Gilligan to produce a classic.
I’m waiting for a sitcom centered on Badger and Skinny Pete.
I would watch that.
That would be dope!
I am thrilled that we will be seeing more of Breaking Bad. I think that it would be a huge mistake, however, to attempt such an endeavor without Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul returning in their iconic roles. It would be like trying to star someone else to play Tony Soprano in a Sopranos movie. It just wouldn’t work. We’ll see.
Sometimes you can’t remake- as in Magnum PI . Selleck owns that role the same way he owns Jesse Stone
The guy who’s playing Magnum now would’ve made a much better Jesse Stone than Tom Selleck, if you read the books.
If they have to replace Bryan Cranston they should pick the guy who played the dad in Malcolm in the Middle, they are eerily similar in appearance.
My exact thinking just as I was reading the article, Doug. Vince is creative and full of surprises. I need to have Cranston in the new BrBa.
Best news ever as long as we have the originals back.
I think it should star a grown up Holly White. She can pick up his hat from the floor and ask people what her name is. They say Hollyberg. “You’re gosh darn right”
Let’s hope it’s better than Better Call Saul trying to de-age two nearly 60 year old men
One has to wonder if this new “Breaking Bad” movie will level up to the critical acclaim that the original series had.
#ToughEffort