Breaking Bad is considered one of the best series of all time. But will it ever return? Walter White actor Bryan Cranston has an unexpectedly poetic answer to this question
Breaking Bad ended over ten years ago and yet fans can’t get enough of Walter White. On Netflix, you can continue to watch the chemistry teacher and family man make his career as a meth cook and criminal. But will he return one more time? Lead actor Bryan Cranston has now put his views on the matter in a nutshell
More Breaking Bad? Bryan Cranston wants to “let go” of the hit series
With the sequel film El Camino and the acclaimed lawyer spin-off Better Call Saul, Breaking Bad (2008-2013) lived on even after the series ended. As fans of the fictional drug world of Albuquerque crave more, Bryan Cranston is repeatedly asked about the possibility of further chapters
(Breaking Bad: Bryan Cranston as Walter White)
Despite his refusal, he found a nice and apt answer to Entertainment Tonight
Everything should end. Everything is cyclical [so it has phases]. Our lives are cyclical. The seasons, trees, everything. And so it’s okay to have a beginning, a middle and an end and then let go. I’m proud of what we’ve achieved
What about another Breaking Bad spin-off, according to creator Vince Gilligan?
After the Saul Goodman spin-off Better Caul Saul with Bob Odenkirk, some Breaking Bad fans would also like to see a spin-off about Giancarlo Esposito’s noble criminal Gus Fring. Rumors about this are persistent and Bryan Cranston’s involvement would not necessarily be necessary. However, such a project doesn’t sound all that credible at the moment.
As Movieweb recently reminded us, Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan currently considers another entry in his series cosmos to be unlikely. But he also lives by the never say never principle:
‘If I’m going to be brutally honest: If my next series and the one after that also fail because nobody wants to watch them and everyone just wants Breaking Bad back: Who knows! Maybe we’ll see our way [to more Breaking Bad series] more clearly in the future, but I’d like to leave it alone.
I wonder if there would be more stories to tell, but I don’t want to beat this horse to death. I look around and I see other storytelling worlds – I don’t want to name names – where I feel like, ‘Oh man, they’re really squeezing every penny out of this franchise.
The next project from series creator Vince Gilligan sounds exciting even without the Walter White connection and yet already has several things in common with Breaking Bad.
