"Why did George Foreman keep coming out of retirement, you know?" says Gilligan, speaking for the first time about El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie, in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter. Gilligan says he first considered doing a Jesse Pinkman-centric film before ending Breaking Bad. "I didn't really tell anybody about it, because I wasn't sure I would ever do anything with it," he says. "But I started thinking to myself, 'What happened to Jesse?' You see him driving away. And to my mind, he went off to a happy ending. But as the years progressed, I thought, 'What did that ending — let's just call it an ending, neither happy, nor sad — what did it look like?'" Gilligan first seriously considered revisiting Breaking Bad in 2018 amid the hoopla over the 10th anniversary, but his first thought was to do a short. "He just started letting his mind run over that," says his longtime producing partner Melissa Bernstein. "And he started to realize, 'I have a lot to say about this.'" ALSO: El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie will play in select theaters for three days in October.
TOPICS: El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie, Netflix, Breaking Bad, Aaron Paul, Vince Gilligan