A Breaking Bad Saul Goodman spinoff is “very much a possibility,” according to the crime-drama’s creator Vince Gilligan .
In recent comments reported by Today.com , Gilligan said that nothing was “written in stone, but we are working away on it.”
By “we,” Gilligan meant he and writer/producer Peter Gould, who created the character of Goodman (played by Bob Odenkirk) in the second season of AMC’s hit series. Gilligan noted that Gould and he had been talking, “trying to figure out what a Saul Goodman show would look like.”
(We’ve known about this plan since April , but Gilligan spilled a few more beans to Yahoo! about four days ago .)
“What would be the details of it, the particulars of it?” Gilligan said. “And we’re getting together to hash that out every chance we get.”
One of the key questions to ask regarding a Breaking Bad Saul Goodman spinoff is this: prequel or sequel?
Gilligan pointed out that Goodman knows “all the major players” in Albuquerque, so “we just have to figure out exactly what kind of story we’re telling.”
“Is it a story about his creation of his own character? Because Saul Goodman, as he explains in his first episode, is not his real name,” Gilligan said. “He is a self-created character, much like Heisenberg. Do we tell the story of his origins? We’re still trying to hash that out. But there are a lot of fun possibilities.”
Personally, we’d like to see this series as a sequel. For one, that would ensure the survival of our favorite slimy lawyer beyond what are sure to be the earth-shattering events of the last episodes. Secondly, Saul’s a much more interesting character as the amoral leach that he is. A prequel would strip that away, at least for a bit.
Regardless of the direction Gilligan and company end up going, we still won’t know what to expect until Breaking Bad wraps up with the final half of its fifth season, which begins August 11 .
Would you like to see a Breaking Bad Saul Goodman spinoff?
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