Breaking Bad To Return For Sixth Season, Says Series Creator
Online, August 25, 2014 (Newswire.com) - Breaking Bad fanatics all over the world, celebrating the show's recent bucketful of Emmy awards, recieved stunning news: Walter White is not dead, and there will indeed be a sixth season of the wildly-popular, award-winning AMC drama.
This shocking and exciting news comes not from an internet message board or the rumor mill. Series creator Vince Gilligan, in a CNN.com interview late last evening, dropped the bombshell.
“Walter White is not dead, and neither is Breaking Bad,” said the 47-year-old writer, director, and executive producer of Breaking Bad in an interview that will surely shock the world.
“We’ve kept it under wraps for months, now the cat’s out of the bag: Season 6 is coming, and it’s going to be epic and true to the fans that have followed the show so incessantly.
I just couldn’t walk away from it, This isn’t a cash-grab or a sophomoric attempt to bastardize what was a gorgeous ending. I’ve invested so much of myself in these characters that I’d always had an inkling I’d return to it, even outside [the] ‘Better Call Saul’ [spinoff]. The kicker was I’d need a spark, something that made it make sense for these stories to continue.
[Series star] Bryan [Cranston] called me up three months ago and said he’d had this incredibly lucid dream in which Walt wakes up in a hospital bed surrounded by the DEA and ends up breaking out of prison and finds out he’s got fans. A lot of morbid, strange people want to know what makes a guy like Walter White tick.
This isn’t a redemption story, it’s got a bleak, dark premise. I can’t give away any more of the details, but let’s just say Walt has quite a bit of unfinished business to attend to, and it sure as hell has nothing to do with teaching high school or taking breakfast orders.”
According to Gilligan, the entire cast has principally agreed to return for at least one more season. This includes Bob Odenkirk, star of ‘Better Call Saul’, the prequel comedy series which is slated to debut on AMC in February 2015.
“I’m not surprised in the least Vince is going back to Breaking Bad,” said Odenkirk. “I’ve been working with him on set for a long time, and the last few times I’ve seen him, he’s had sort of a glint in his eye, a bounce to his step. He’s laughing at a bunch of jokes I couldn’t pull off two years ago. I mean, comedy and drama can be radically different, and no one does drama like Vince. I’m completely on board.”
National Report caught up with Breaking Bad writer Paul Horner, 35, upon the release of the news. Horner confirmed the continuation of the show, and revealed a few plot points that are sure to get fans salivating.
“In the trailer, Walt wakes up with a start in a hospital bed with a start several weeks after being shot. Like Bryan [Cranston] said last May, nobody ever saw a body bag, so essentially, the last episode of Season 5 was left open-ended. Skyler, Walt Jr., Marie… none of them have any idea he’s survived, but the DEA is right on top of it.
We’ll go through the motions of people finding out he’s alive – many people wanted Walt dead, so there’s a lot of disconcerted, angry people – Walt going to trial, his incarceration and how he’s keeping Heisenberg at the top of the streets game during his imprisonment, and his eventual breakout, despite the fact that he’s being held prisoner in a fashion not seen since Hannibal Lecter. The nationwide manhunt for Jesse Pinkman is both epic and gripping, and I can tell you for certain his relationship with Walt will continue, in a much more strained, arch-nemesis-type fashion. None of this is anything you won’t find out about in the trailer, but it’s high time to get truly, really excited for the greatest show of all time! I believe in this, it’s a valid and worthwhile continuation of something that deserves discernment and care. Breaking Bad Season 6! It’s not over!”
Shooting for Breaking Bad: Season 6 is scheduled to begin early next year.