I’ll be honest: I really, really tried to avoid ‘Breaking Bad’ for the longest time.

Ultimately I succumbed, because, you know, peer pressure, but it might just be the best decision I’ve ever made (slight exaggeration).

That’s because the hit show about good-guy-gone-bad Walter White and his transformation from dutiful father and chemistry teacher to terminally ill meth dealer and criminal mastermind is simply one of the best shows ever made.

Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul’s – pardon the pun – chemistry, is ultimately what made the show so iconic, and while Better Call Saul is a decent (ish) spin-off, it doesn’t quite have the same appeal as the the original series.

For a while now it’s been pretty common knowledge that a film version was happening – Bryan Cranston confirmed it in November – and now it appears as though the two biggest names, Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul, have been confirmed to return for the flick.


They are expected to reunite alongside a host of returning characters, according to the Revenge Of The Fans site which has released what is believed to be a full cast list.

The reported line up may surprise some fans as Krysten Ritter, who played Jane, and Bryan, who played lead role Walter, both died in the show.

Other returning faces include Jonathan Banks (Mike), Jesse Plemons (Todd), Charles Baker (Skinny Pete), Matt Jones (Badger), Robert Forster (Ed, aka The Disappearer), Tess Harper (Mrs. Pinkman) and Kevin Rankin (Kenny).

Revenge of the Fans states:

“Not only will the story [to] find a way bring back Ritter’s Jane – with whom Jesse had a tragic love affair way back during the show’s first season – but series star Cranston is set to play some sort of role in the new film as well. This, despite both characters having met their ends on the show.”


Speculation has been rife about what the potential movie sequel – called Greenbrier – would look like, and it was reported that the plot would centre around “the escape of a kidnapped man and his quest for freedom.”

And apparently, as /Film reported, that kidnapped man is none other than meth dealer Jesse Pinkman.

They say that the sequel will be set after the events of the series finale, following Jesse – played by the brilliant Aaron Paul – as he blazes a trail away from that horrifying finale.

Shortly after the finale aired, show creator Vince Gilligan revealed what could happen to Jesse next:

“My personal feeling is that he got away. But the most likely thing, as negative as this sounds, is that they’re going to find this kid’s fingerprints all over this lab and they’re going to find him within a day or a week or a month. And he’s still going to be on the hook for the murder of two federal agents. But yeah, even though that’s the most likely outcome, the way I see it is that he got away and got to Alaska, changed his name, and had a new life. You want that for the kid. He deserves it.”

This all comes after Cranston did an interview on The Dan Patrick Show, where he not only confirmed that a film was on its way, but also that he had spoken to Vince Gilligan about the project.


In the interview, Bryan said:

“There appears to be a movie version of Breaking Bad, but I have honestly not even read the script. “There is a question [of] whether we’d even see Walter White in the movie. I would absolutely do it [play Walter again] – it’s Vince Gilligan and he’s a genius.” “It’s a great story and there’s a lot of people who felt that they wanted to see some kind of completion to some of these storylines that were left open. “This idea, from what I’m told, gets into those – at least a couple of the characters who were not completed as far as their journey.”


I’m obviously seriously excited for this film, but I have no idea how they’re going to get around the whole ‘Walt didn’t survive the final series’ business.

Maybe it was all a dream?

Who knows, no who cares – they’re doing a film and that’s I all care about!

Images via AMC/Sony Pictures