‘BREAKING BAD’ SPIN-OFF, ‘BETTER CALL SAUL’ is like SERIOUSLY HAPPENING

Oh doubters. I’m namely speaking about myself. All you doubters thought that a Breaking Bad spin-off starring Saul was merely the blatherings of intrigued creators. Well you (me!) are looking more and more wrong by the passing moment.

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For months we’ve heard show creator Vince Gilligan was considering a spin-off series focusing on Walter White’s crooked lawyer, Saul Goodman, memorably played by Bob Odenkirk. Gilligan admitted he wants to do the show, but has been unsure of how to go about it. Prequel? Maybe a sequel? In a new interview, Gilligan doesn’t answer that question, but does say he and fellow writer Peter Gould are moving “full speed ahead” with the project. They hope to pitch it to Sony in the near future. As of now, it’s Gilligan’s only planned post-Breaking Bad project.

The Wrap spoke with Gilligan at length about the project, and he said the following:

Since Peter created the character, it felt more than right to be working with him on this, and we are plugging away coming up with a pitch and a take on it for the network and studio and hopefully everyone will agree that there’s a really fun show to be had here. And hopefully we’ll get it up and running, and then Peter will run it. I’d love to see that happen. It’s not a done deal yet, but it’s definitely something we’re full speed ahead on trying to get going.

Later in the interview, Gilligan said the two biggest questions they need to answer are whether it’ll be a half-hour show or an hour, and whether to set it before the events ofBreaking Bad or after the events of Breaking Bad:

I have to be coy as to whether it even could be a sequel. Because you never know, when the dust settles at the end of our final eight episodes, where everybody’s gonna be and who’s gonna be left standing. I can’t even say for sure that it could be a sequel. It may be, it may not.

Are my fellow Meth Heads interested in this spin-off? I think I feign interest,  but when it gets down to it I’m not really that excited about the prospect. Saul works well as a cursory character, but I don’t know how well he’d translate to a starring role. Our own The Dude has dubbed this the “Boba Fett effect.”