Better Call Saul! - Breaking Bad Spinoff A Go At AMC

[Sawyer]

 

[Sawyer]

Tidbits...

Spoiler

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Jarett Wieselman
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Michael McKean plays Chuck, Saul Goodman's brother #TCA14 #BetterCallSaul

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TV Guide
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#BreakingBad prequel #BetterCallSaul starts in 2002. "It is indeed a period piece," Gilligan says #TCA14

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Eric Goldman
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Yay on Michelle MacLaren coming back to direct for Better Call Saul! #TCA14

McKean...

 

[Sawyer]

http://tvline.com/2014/07/11/better-call-saul-cast-series-regulars-new-photos-breaking-bad-spin-off/

Better Call Saul: AMC Confirms Series Regulars, Teases [Spoiler's] Return
By Vlada Gelman / July 11 2014, 5:35 PM PDT

Team Better Call Saul has officially assembled.

At the Television Critics Association’s summer press tour in Beverly Hills on Friday, AMC confirmed the full line-up of series regulars joining star Bob Odenkirk.

Michael McKean (Family Tree) will play Saul’s brother Chuck, Jonathan Banks will reprise his Breaking Bad role of Mike Ehrmantraut, Rhea Seehorn (Franklin & Bash) will play Kim, Patrick Fabian (Grey’s Anatomy) will play Hamlin and Michael Mando (Orphan Black) will play Mando.

“The series is set six years before Saul Goodman meets Walter White,” reads the Breaking Bad prequel’s official description. “When we meet him, the man who will become Saul Goodman is known as Jimmy McGill, a small-time lawyer searching for his destiny, and, more immediately, hustling to make ends meet. Working alongside, and, often, against Jimmy, is ‘fixer’ Mike Ehrmantraut, a beloved character introduced in Breaking Bad. The series will track Jimmy’s transformation into Saul Goodman, the man who puts ‘criminal’ in ‘Criminal lawyer.’”

AMC also released two new production stills, one of Odenkirk as Saul (above) and another of Saul with McKean’s Chuck (right).

Already ordered for a 13-episode second season, Saul‘s first outing of 10 episode is slated to premiere in early 2015.

Other tidbits from the panel:

* The show could have made its original November premiere date, but creator Vince Gilligan asked AMC for more time. “I am slow as mud as a TV writer,” he explained. “We have a way of doing things that are slower than most TV shows.” Given that, how will he juggle his Saul duties with his new CBS drama Battle Creek? “I don’t have as much to do with” the latter show, Gilligan admitted. And while Better Call Saul is a fifty-fifty partnership between Gilligan and executive producer Peter Gould, who created the title character, “it’s going to be more and more Peter’s” project as the series progresses.

* As they were crafting the prequel, Gilligan found that “we didn’t really know who this guy [Saul] is at all” even though viewers already know where he ends up. “It’s a very interesting process, and there are certain limits” given Breaking Bad, he allowed. Added Gould: “It reminds me a lot of Season 5 when we had the machine gun in the trunk. We had no idea how we were going to get there. … It’s a challenge. One of the questions we ask ourselves a lot is, what problem does being Saul Goodman solve?”

* Gould on a possible appearance from Giancarlo Esposito’s Gus: “There’s so much more to say about that character. There’s always a possibility. Having said that, we’re trying to make something that stands on its own.”

* Will Saul have a non-linear storytelling structure? “I like jumping around in time,” Gilligan replied. “Anything that was possible storytelling wise on Breaking Bad is possible on Better Call Saul.”

* Gilligan on the hate for Breaking Bad‘s Skylar: “I learned my lesson. I’m never going to write less-than-perfect women again. I was always scratching my head at the anti-Skylar bias. To me, she was a much more likable character than Walt was.”

 

[Kaleb]

Tidbits...

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McKean...

MacLaren...

 

[Kane52630]

Dat MacLaren

 

[BestGirl]

I hope Saul gets a happier ending than we thought he would get. He's like the only character in the show who didn't lie.

I liked Saul because he was one of the few characters who seemed clear about who he was and what business he was in. Walter and Jesse were always trying to justify their drug-selling and insisting that they were good people in spite of the murders they committed. Saul knew he was a facilitator for meth dealers and made no excuses or apologies for it.

 

[TheDreamMaster]

At first I was like "Damn, we could be seeing this in November", but honestly, if the wait makes it all just a little better, I'm good with that. I'm not pulling for Breaking Bad levels, but I admit my expectations are huge for this.

 

[TheNextNolan22]

Dat MacLaren indeed.

 

[Sawyer]

Two interesting bits from EW...

http://insidetv.ew.com/2014/07/11/better-call-saul-photos/

6. The show will not copy Breaking Bad’s neo-Western visual style. “Peter came with an idea book of frame grabs from classic movies, like The Conformist, we talked a lot about Kubrick,” Gilligan said. “We’re doing our damndest to make it as different as possible. It’s important that this not look like a carbon copy of Breaking Bad.”

10. Some Breaking Bad directors are returning: After Gilligan’s premiere, Michelle MacLaren (Game of Thrones) will direct episode 2, Terry McDonough (who directed the first Saul episode) directs episode 3 and Colin Bucksey (four episodes of Breaking Bad) helms episode four and Adam Bernstein (Fargo) has episode 5.

 

[Piper Maru]

http://tvline.com/2014/07/11/better-call-saul-cast-series-regulars-new-photos-breaking-bad-spin-off/

 

[Sawyer]

Dat hair...

 

[Whiskey Tango]

No one told me about this thread. But I found it anyway!

I had forgotten all about this and am pleasantly surprised to find so much info. This is going to be great!

 

[Great Mind(s)]

I wonder if we'll see any hair on Mike

 

[The Trainman]

What happens when you leave a message?

 

[Sawyer]

They just showed a promo for this during their Breaking Bad Binge marathon, but I only noticed what it was for like two seconds before it ended.

 

[Hyde]

Here's the teaser (low-quality)

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[TheNextNolan22]

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[Sawyer]

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articl...ecting-better-call-saul-and-hillary-2016.html

But we could see him pop up in the Breaking Bad prequel/spin-off Better Call Saul.

I don’t know in what context it would work in, because we’re in different phases. The characters didn’t meet until the second season of Breaking Bad, when Walter needed to meet him. I suppose they could have a serendipitous brush of each other down the street or in the market, but I don’t know what good that’ll do—it’s just a little cookie. I’m looking forward to going down there next year and directing an episode, though. It’s family. They’ve got the same crew, and it’s exciting to think that we can rekindle that flame; that it’s still alive.

 

[TheNextNolan22]

Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould on Jimmy McGill.
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[TheNextNolan22]

Amen.
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[TheNextNolan22]

Better Call Saul: The Song.
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I love this.

 

[Sawyer]

Dave Porter will score the show:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/breaking-bad-composer-score-better-738374

 

[TheNextNolan22]

****in' A.

 

[TheNextNolan22]

 

[Soapy]

"Soon."