News Breaking Bad film in the works

[JirinPanthosa]

I forget: What do we know about his parents? Did we actually ever see them?

In season 1 he shows up at their house and tries to move back in, they carefully debate about laying down the law and not letting them exploit their emotions, then throw him out because they found a joint his younger brother was hiding and blamed him.

In season 2, they try to throw him out of his house, and he blackmails them into selling it to him for about half of what they could have gotten.

The take away I get from those episodes is that their failure with him occupies their every thought and they are tortured by his criminal druggie behavior, but they've been through the wringer with giving him more and more chances and being disappointed they can't bear to face it again. So what they want and think is best for him is to really hit rock bottom and have to really learn to take responsibility. And I don't think, until they have closure, they will ever be emotionally able to completely put him behind them.

 

[Owain Taggart]

I don't see the Jesse character as being in the same league as Jimmy.

Yeah, exactly. And I feel the character worked best when paired together with Walter. Alone? Not so much. Seeing what he was up to alone in the series stretches the credibility that he'd be a good enough character to carry a movie.

So, I'm watching Ozark which is described as similar to Breaking Bad in a way, but the major difference is that with Breaking Bad, you have Walter's motivations being that he had cancer and had to find a way to finance the treatments. That's why the show worked so much for me, and Ozark doesn't have any kind of similar motivation beyond "make money for a big mexican crime boss" and isn't nearly as interesting. And that's the kind of thing I feel a Jesse movie would fall prey to. Almost everyone around him is dead, and it's likely going to boil down to a revenge plot.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

As you can imagine, this has been the buzz of the day around here, especially with the local radio talkers. And the assumption seemed to be that it will be filming here.

There are even theories going around suggesting that it isn't a coincidence that this was announced only days after MLG was elected governor, as bringing "Hollywood back" was a big part of her campaign. Richardson was big with the film industry and he put in a lot of tax incentives and other policies in the late naughts to really build a film industry. (Which is why BB was here in the first place.) But our current governor got rid of a lot of that. (And, yes, she did even use some "liberal Hollywood" rhetoric at one time.) But I digress.

The point is there is a concerted effort to make New Mexico and ABQ an alternative to Canada. As you may know, about a month ago, Netflix just purchased old studio land they plan on turning into a billion-dollar production facility. (This too happened after Grisham had finally widened the gap in the polls.) Which has already lured-in smaller studios interest, building on the infrastructure that was already here. So, by the time the BB movie starts shooting, there's no reason why they won't be able to just film the whole thing here.

Ah, thanks for those local insights. I hadn't realized Richardson had done all of that but that makes a lot of sense now.

With that said, it seems unlikely that this movie will actually be about post-Breaking Bad Jesse because I can't see a scenario where he stays in New Mexico unless he's recaptured, which would come off very repetitive and that's not like Gilligan.

Although, I suppose the state could stand in for Mexico itself which I guess Breaking Bad already did (unless they actually went down to Mexico but I doubt that). Jesse fleeing to Mexico could be interesting and then get caught up with the whole Juárez Cartel.

You don't remember a lot of the show do you? Time for a rewatch!

You just notice? Yeah, my memory sucks.

I'm planning to do a rewatch...right after Better Call Saul ends and I rewatch it first and then finally Breaking Bad.

His parents are both shown being typical stuck up white parents. He ends up buying their house, or second house with his drug money.

Ahhh...that's right! I remember now. They were worlds apart.

Now we know why we see the flash forwards on "Better Call Saul." Next season expect to see one were Jessie shows up and asks him for help and we are left wondering what that could be about until the movie starts. Plus the movie is going to open with a overhead shot of Walter White lying, dead from the final episode. But then you see his fingers start to move. You hear his slow breathing. Turns out he is still alive and before you know it he is getting up and knows he has to go on the run. He will of course bump into Saul and Jessie.


Jason

All of that sounds awful (especially Walt surviving) and there's no way Gilligan would ever do that.

In season 1 he shows up at their house and tries to move back in, they carefully debate about laying down the law and not letting them exploit their emotions, then throw him out because they found a joint his younger brother was hiding and blamed him.

In season 2, they try to throw him out of his house, and he blackmails them into selling it to him for about half of what they could have gotten.

The take away I get from those episodes is that their failure with him occupies their every thought and they are tortured by his criminal druggie behavior, but they've been through the wringer with giving him more and more chances and being disappointed they can't bear to face it again. So what they want and think is best for him is to really hit rock bottom and have to really learn to take responsibility. And I don't think, until they have closure, they will ever be emotionally able to completely put him behind them.

Ah, yes, I do remember all of that now (stupid memory). Thanks for the refresher.

 

[Owain Taggart]

All of that sounds awful (especially Walt surviving) and there's no way Gilligan would ever do that.

Yeah, that'd definitely be aweful. It would undermine everything Walt went through in his struggle. I'm not a big fan of character revivals. I feel that if characters keep surviving unsurmountable odds it becomes comical after awhile. Kind of like how many lives The Swede had in Hell on Wheels, or Gillian on Boardwalk Empire who I felt overstayed her welcome after an implausible return.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

Even if Walter somehow survived the gunshot, there's no way that team at the end that discovered him would have let him slip away if his body somehow disappeared (A mortally wounded cancer patient escaping on foot from a SWAT team in the middle of the desert?!), and even if he somehow did get away from them, he was still not very far away from dying of cancer. Walter is dead.

As for Jesse somehow meeting Gene. It's possible but I think that if they did somehow accidentally run into each other, the first thing they'd both do is try to get far, far away from the other.

 

[Timby]

Walt was already near the brink of death due to his cancer and took a 7.62x51mm bullet to his liver. He's dead.

 

[Owain Taggart]

Yeah, short of a potential Walking Dead crossover, he's just dead. We saw him die on screen.

As for the Jessie movie, I forget where I saw it, maybe in this thread, that the director was saying it would pick up where Breaking Bad ended, so it would definitely be a sequel, not a prequel.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

I hope on April 1st, Vince Gilligan announces a prequel story: Ken Wins.

 

[Jayson1]

Maybe the movie will be about Badger, finding out CBS and Paramount is wanting to make new Trek shows and movies and it's about his journey to Hollywood to pitch his idea.

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Jason

 

[DimesDan]

I am properly excited by this.

I suspect it will be "tele-movie" being shown on AMC and then dropped onto Netflix, or just a Netflix Original and won't really appear in cinemas similar to Outlaw King or Andy Sirkis's Jungle Book film.

Either way, I'll need to rewatch Breaking Bad again, maybe with Mrs-Dimesdan along for the wide too.

 

[Push The Button]

Walt Jr. managing his $9M trust fund.

Ok, no that would be awful.

I’d love to see a sober version of Jesse that has his shit together. Most of his bad influences are dead now, so its time to move forward.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

Walt Jr. managing his $9M trust fund.

Ok, no that would be awful.

I’d love to see a sober version of Jesse that has his shit together. Most of his bad influences are dead now, so its time to move forward.

I actually think a show about Walter Jr's depression and mental health issues could be an awesome miniseries. Imagine the decision he makes if he finds out where the money came from.

 

[Push The Button]

I actually think a show about Walter Jr's depression and mental health issues could be an awesome miniseries. Imagine the decision he makes if he finds out where the money came from.

And cereal. Don’t forget the cereal.