It appears that our time watching some of the greatest television ever made is coming to an end… only to possibly start up again in a completely different way. Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul co-creators Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould spoke a bit at the premiere of the sixth and final season of the latter show in Hollywood and confirmed that they’ll be taking a break from the groundbreaking Breaking Bad universe to work on something new.
While Gould didn’t speak about his next work, Gilligan said he is working on something new and different. He has been working on a story for the new series for the last few months, but it is still very early, with not even his wife knowing anything about it. It will also evidently not be in the same genre as Breaking Bad as the showrunner looks to do something else outside of the crime world. “It’s something really different,” he said.
This, of course, does not mean that Breaking Bad is gone forever. Plenty of the characters in both shows have a ton of story that could still be told in a variety of interesting ways. Just consider how the duo took Better Call Saul on its own pathway and turned it into a series that rivaled the original but works in completely different ways. Both creators said they’d be happy to eventually return, but now was just not the time.
”I love these characters, I love this world,” Gould said. “Maybe someday, but personally I’m going to take a little break from that world and try something else, just to prove that I can.”
“I think that’s my answer too,” Gilligan followed up. “There are stories left to tell, but it’s not proving something to the world(;) it’s about proving something to yourself. That thing I’m working on, hopefully someone will want to buy it, someone will want to make it.”
Doesn’t really sound like a hard sell, Vince.
