Its a prequel!

AMC and Sony Pictures Television confirmed today that they have reached a licensing agreement for a spinoff of Vince Gilligan’s landmark AMC/SPT series Breaking Bad. As conceived, the new series is based on the show’s popular Saul Goodman character with the working title Better Call Saul. Plans call for Saul to be a one-hour prequel that will focus on the evolution of the popular Saul Goodman character before he ever became Walter White’s lawyer.

The possibility of a Saul Goodman spinoff series was revealed last April and with the recent ratings hike that Breaking Bad has been enjoying, it has felt like more and more of a distinct possibility, as the network would want to capitalize on the audience interest in the show and characters as quickly as possible.

In May, Gilligan, who was developing the series with Peter Gould, who created the Saul Goodman character, said that they hadn't yet decided if it would be a prequel or sequel to the events of Breaking Bad.

"I like to think of Saul as a cockroach in the best possible way,” Gilligan told Vulture, indicating that the crafty lawyer may indeed survive the series' carnage. “This is a guy who’s going to survive while the rest of us have been nuked into annihilation. He’ll be the worst-dressed cockroach in the world.” Now that we know it will function as a prequel, Saul's fate is a little more up in the air.

"[Saul] kind of knows everybody...everybody in town, all the major players. And he has a hand in the business every which way he can," Gilligan told Yahoo! TV back in April. "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. 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."

Alan Sepinwall of Hitfix reports that deals still need to be made for Gilligan and Gould, and it is currently unclear if Gilligan will be showrunning the series. Better Call Saul is also likely to go straight to series, with no pilot.

 

Maybe my favorite Breaking Bad character (Mike) will return.  

Posted by Rufus

Maybe my favorite Breaking Bad character (Mike) will return.

That's what I was thinking. I'd like to maybe see Mike's back story because it seemed interesting; they had hinted in an episode that mike had been a detective/ police officer in Philadelphia before being discharged due to something.  

Yah mike was def da coolest of em all  

My favorite episode with mike was where he went solo into that place where he took out like 4-6 guys and shot one of them through a wall. He took the asian guy who owned the place or owed someone something? idk. dont remember the details. And how he used one of the employees high heels to trick the guy into thinking it was him and when he fell for it mike shot him lol