Anyone who knows me, is aware that I loved AMC's 'Breaking Bad'. I believe it will go down as one of the greatest television drama's ever. When word came out last summer that they were considering a Saul Goodman centric spin-off/prequel, I was more than elated. I got to the BrBa party late. I binge watched Season 1,2,3,4 on Netflix in the span of a weekend! Saul Goodman quickly became one of my TV favorite characters of all time. So what do we know about the show at this point?
What: Better Call Saul- A spinoff/prequel of the popular series Breaking Bad. "The trials and tribulations of criminal lawyer, Saul Goodman, in the time leading up to establishing his strip-mall law office"
Where: AMC Network- filming confirmed to take place in Albuquerque New Mexico and will begin on June 2, just like Breaking Bad
When: November 2014- exact premiere date TBD
Who's In it?
Bob Odenkirk reprises his role as
Saul Goodman.
Jonathan Banks also reprises his role as Private Investigator, all around fixer
Mike Ehrmantraut
Michael McKean will play Goodman rival
Dr. Thurber described as a brilliant attorney who is held back by an “unusual affliction
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Patrick Fabian will play
Burt is described as a “Kennedy” type, name partner in a white-shoe law firm who seems to have his life together.
Michael Mando will play
Eddie is a career criminal, a "cool" guy who speaks Spanish.
Rhea Seehorn will play
Beth a lawyer with a hard, complicated life whose romance with someone in her firm will lead to a lot melodrama
Zak and
Luke are skateboarding twins around 20 years old are characters yet to be cast
Aaron Paul who played
Jesse Pinkman on BrBa has made it publicly known he would love top part of the show. It's been reported that he
could be a recurring character.
Who's Making It?
Vince Gilligan will be the Executive Producer and will be part of the writing room
Peter Gould will be the Head Writer/Showrunner. He created Saul Goodman as the writer of Breaking Bad Episode 8 from Season 2 called... "Better Call Saul"
Other writers (all from BrBa by the way)
Tom Schnauz
Gennifer Hutchinson
What else do we know?
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Will largely be a prequel but could have "fractured" timeline ala BrBa
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It will be a 60 Minutes in length
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Will have drama and comedy elements but will lean to the comedy side a bit more than BrBa did
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Michael Slovis (DP from most BrBa episodes) Confirmed to not be part of the show *(Exclusive)
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Vince Gilligan will direct the Pilot
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Writer Tom Schnauz will direct an episode
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" lang="en"><p><a href="
https://twitter.com/KevMerica">@KevMerica</a> Thank you! The plan right now is that I will direct an episode of Saul.</p>— Thomas Schnauz (@TomSchnauz) <a href="
https://twitter.com/TomSchnauz/statuses/457789263107862528">April 20, 2014</a></blockquote>
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No confirmation on number of episodes part that will be part of season 1 (guessing 13)
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Season 1 is already sold and will stream on Netflix when it concludes
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Dave Porter (from Breaking Bad) is in talks to be composer *(Exclusive)
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This is the 2nd Spin Off that Vince Gilligan has launched. The 1st being "The Lone Gunmen" from FOX TV "X-files"
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Vince Gilligan, Tom Schanuz and Gennifer Huthinson worked together on X-Files, Lone Gunmen and Breaking Bad
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Michael McKean (Dr Thurber) also worked with Gillian previously on the X-Files
They are currently filming the show and will update will more information as I get it. Also, I wanted to apologize to the patrons on the website as I accidentally posted this while it was being crafted as I did not realize saving it, was posting it. My sincere apologies for this mistake.
KevMerica