Related: Bob Odenkirk Shares Hardest Part About Leaving Better Call Saul Behind Indeed, many franchises have continued after their creator parted ways with the IP. It's unsurprising considering how successful Better Call Saul and El Camino have been, not to mention how much speculation there is around other stories that delve into the histories of supporting Breaking Bad characters like Gus Fring. " I can tell you that if I could do anything to encourage Vince and Peter to continue on in this universe, I would do it," McDermott said in a 2022 interview ( via Variety). Dan McDermott, president of entertainment and AMC Studios at AMC Networks, has made his feelings on potential Breaking Bad projects clear. Unlike Gilligan, AMC has indicated they're open to more Breaking Bad spin-offs. However, Gilligan's departure from the Breaking Bad universe doesn't necessarily mean it's done for good – but his vision of the timeline is concluded. But I think I’m starting to sense you’ve got to know when to leave the party, you don’t want to be the guy with a lampshade on your head. Then I did El Camino, and I’m very proud of that too. I feel like we probably pushed it doing a spinoff to Breaking Bad I could not be more happy with the results. In the final moments of the midseason finale, Hank figures out that Walt is Heisenberg. Walt ends up killing Mike and aligns with Todd Alquist and Jack Welker's gang which turns out to be a terrible choice. Between July 2009 and March 2010, which occurs in season 5A, Walt, Jesse, and Mike start a new meth business. The season as a whole also encompasses a large portion of the timeline. Related: Breaking Bad Cast & Character Guideīreaking Bad season 5 was split into two segments when AMC broadcast the episodes. By the end of the season, Walt finally carries out a successful plan to take out Gus once and for all. Walt and Skyler then turn to Saul to find a way to launder their money. Over four months, Gus cuts Walt from the business. When Breaking Bad season 4 picks up, it's mid-April 2009 and Walt's working relationship with Gus starts to go south very quickly. Skyler learns about her husband's meth business around the time Walt is hired by Gus to cook in the superlab. Similar to season 1 in terms of length in the timeline, Breaking Bad season 3 also takes place over just two months. He, then, decides to practice law as Saul Goodman. Without a law license, Jimmy works at a cell phone store but eventually gets another chance at being a lawyer due to a successful appeal. Better Call Saul season 4 picks up just after the events of the previous season. Related: How Better Call Saul Made Bob Odenkirk Appreciate Walter White & Tony Soprano Moreįlashbacks fill in some blanks left in Gus' backstory, while in the present Better Call Saul timeline, he assists Mike in laundering money while vying to take over from the Salamanca family. Gus Fring finally enters the picture in Better Call Saul season 3, which is initially set in September 2002. That is, until Chuck McGill takes his own life and Jimmy loses his law license. The pair later team up for their own private practice while Jimmy manipulates his brother to benefit his own work. Jimmy is working as a lawyer for Davis & Main at the recommendation of Kim Wexler, who's absent from Breaking Bad's timeline, but the gig doesn't last long. After months of uncertainty about whether a movie was even happening, the Breaking Bad film was practically on our doorstep, and we hadn't even realized it was coming.Better Call Saul season 2 still takes place in 2002, from July to September. Mere days after Odenkirk gave his interview, exciting fans with the possibility that filming might already be completed, Netflix announced a release date less than two months away. If secrecy was the goal, Netflix and the Breaking Bad team definitely succeeded. They've done an amazing job of keeping it a secret." You know what I mean? How is that a secret? But it is. When asked if the film was in fact happening, Odenkirk replied, "I find it hard to believe you don't know it was shot. Until Netflix announced the October release date for El Camino, very little was known about the Breaking Bad movie, although Bob Odenkirk implied that filming had already been completed when he talked to The Hollywood Reporter promoting the upcoming fifth season of the Breaking Bad spinoff Better Call Saul, on which Odenkirk stars.
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