Jeffrey Katzenberg: I offered the Breaking Bad team $75 million to make three more episodes

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The form former chairman of Walt Disney Studios, co-founder of Dreamworks and, currently, the founder of Quibi recalls making the $75 million offer before the final seson in 2013, as The New York Times' Kyle Buchanan recounted on Twitter. “I met with them maybe four or five months before the final season aired,” Katzenberg told Buchanan. “I made a proposal to them that I would buy from them three additional episodes of Breaking Bad for $25 million an episode. At the time, they were producing these shows for $3.5 million an episode, so to literally buy three new episodes for that amount of money meant they would have made more profit from the purchase of those three episodes than they’d made from five years.”