SAUL GOODMAN SHOW OFFICIALlY GREENLIT. Will be ‘BREAKING BAD’ PREQUEL.

Saul Goodman’s presence on television will live on after Breaking Bad, even if his character may not. A spin-off show starring our favorite secretly brilliant, not so secret scumbag has been given the official go-ahead.

Better Call Saul, the Breaking Bad spinoff show set around Bob Odenkirk‘s rakish, pragmatic, and charismatic lawyer Saul Goodman, is now the subject of a “go-ahead” licensing agreement between AMC and Breaking Bad producer Sony Pictures TV.

The show, the title of which isn’t quite finalized, will be a one-hour format that “will focus on the evolution of the Goodman character before he ever became Walter White’s lawyer.” There isn’t a formal order for the show at this point, but that seems like a technicality. Once deals are inked for Vince Gilligan, Saul Goodman co-creator Peter Gould, and Odenkirk, we should have details on the order.

Deadline has the news. Expect the show to be a bit less dark than the parent show, and much more comic. Given the general characteristics of Saul Goodman, that won’t come as a surprise to anyone. One obvious question that comes to mind is: what other characters will show up? There are more than a few characters (some no longer alive) that could be worked into the spinoff, whether they had any explicit experience with Saul or not.

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