Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan: "I'm hoping when the movie comes out, people won't say, 'Oh, man, this guy should've left well enough alone'"

The Hollywood Reporter

"Why did George Foreman keep coming out of retirement, you know?" says Gilligan, speaking for the first time about El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie, in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter. Gilligan says he first considered doing a Jesse Pinkman-centric film before ending Breaking Bad. "I didn't really tell anybody about it, because I wasn't sure I would ever do anything with it," he says. "But I started thinking to myself, 'What happened to Jesse?' You see him driving away. And to my mind, he went off to a happy ending. But as the years progressed, I thought, 'What did that ending — let's just call it an ending, neither happy, nor sad — what did it look like?'" Gilligan first seriously considered revisiting Breaking Bad in 2018 amid the hoopla over the 10th anniversary, but his first thought was to do a short. "He just started letting his mind run over that," says his longtime producing partner Melissa Bernstein. "And he started to realize, 'I have a lot to say about this.'" ALSO: El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie will play in select theaters for three days in October.