El Camino is a new movie taking place after the events of the Breaking Bad tv series. And we can’t wait to watch it!
So let’s dive into some trivia and facts about this new movie!
- El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie, or simply El Camino, is an upcoming American neo-western crime drama film
- It serves as a continuation of the television series Breaking Bad
- Series creator Vince Gilligan acts as screenwriter, producer and director of the film
- With Aaron Paul reprising his role as Jesse Pinkman
- The plot follows what happens to Pinkman following the events of the show’s series finale
- A Breaking Bad feature film was rumored ever since the series’ finale in 2013
- Gilligan approached Paul with the idea in 2017
- Near the tenth anniversary of Breaking Bad
- And filming began in secret in New Mexico in November 2018
- Lasting nearly 60 days
- The project remained unconfirmed until August 2019
- Then Netflix released a trailer
- The film is scheduled to be released digitally on Netflix, as well as limited theatrically, on October 11, 2019
- With television broadcast at a later date on AMC
- Set after the Breaking Bad finale “Felina”, Jesse Pinkman pursues freedom after escaping from his captors
- While being hunted by law enforcement officers
- Vince Gilligan had the idea for El Camino during the final stages of filming the last season of Breaking Bad
- Asking himself what would happen to the character of Jesse Pinkman following the events of the Breaking Bad finale “Felina”
- Where Jesse escapes from the neo-Nazis’ headquarters after being rescued by Walter White
- He had not told others of this idea until near the tenth anniversary of Breaking Bad
- There he started sharing the idea with former cast and crew members as a means to celebrate the milestone
- Aaron Paul, who played Jesse, affirmed that Gilligan had contacted him around 2017 while he was starring in The Path about plans for celebrating the tenth anniversary of Breaking Bad
- And hinted at something big
- And he vowed that he would be eager to be involved with any idea that Gilligan had to continue Jesse’s character
- Unlike most of his work from The X-Files and Breaking Bad where he worked with one or more co-writers, Gilligan opted to write the screenplay alone until he was ready to present it
- After affirming that Sony Pictures Television, which helped to produce Breaking Bad, was on board
- Gilligan selectively shopped the film to a few potential distributors
- Settling on Netflix and AMC due to their history with the show
- Gilligan intended the film to have some theatrical release
- A goal he had sought during filming of Breaking Bad
- Which Netflix had been able to do with some of the show’s season premieres in limited theatrical engagement
- The film was kept under great secrecy from the pre-production stages
With cast and crew under tight restrictions about what they could say about their project - Gilligan believed that as El Camino was a coda to the series
- That it would only really appeal to fans of Breaking Bad
- And would not be as enjoyable to those that hadn’t watched it
- It was only until near the start of filming in November 2018 that rumors of a film continuation of Breaking Bad was in development
- With Paul returning as Jesse
- In an interview in November 2018, Bryan Cranston, who starred as Walter White, confirmed that a film was indeed in the works
- But said he had not seen a script
- Though was interested in appearing if Gilligan called for it
- While Gilligan has been involved with theatrical films before, El Camino is the first film he produced
- The unspecified budget was stated to be more than the US$6 million that “Felina” cost to produce
- The film was shot at a 2.39 widescreen aspect ratio using the Arri Alexa 65 camera to capture the work in a cinematic manner
- Most of the filming occurred in Albuquerque around November 2018 under the working title of Greenbrier
- Compared to the pace they had used during Breaking Bad
- Where they would shoot six to eight pages of script a day
- The pace for El Camino was more relaxed
- With only one-and-a-half to three pages a day
- With the overall shoot lasting fifty days
- The larger budget and relaxed schedule allowed Gilligan to capture scenes outside of Albuquerque as well
- Something he wanted to do but was unable to during Breaking Bad
- By the time local media made a connection between Greenbrier and Breaking Bad
- Filming had been mostly completed, according to Paul
- Formal announcement of a Breaking Bad film to be released by Netflix and AMC was made in February 2019
- Netflix revealed the film on August 24, 2019
- With the name El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
Along with the film’s first teaser trailer - In the days prior to its formal announcement, Netflix temporarily listed the film on its website
- Which was noticed by users before it was pulled
- The title refers to the Chevrolet El Camino that Jesse drives away with in “Felina”
- The announcement trailer of the film was released by Netflix on August 24, 2019
- A teaser premiered during the 71st Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony on September 22, 2019
- While a full trailer was released on September 24, 2019
- The film is expected to be released on October 11, 2019, on Netflix
- With later airings being planned on AMC
- In addition, the film will have a limited theatrical release from October 11–13 in various cities in the United States
