Fans ofBreaking Badwishing for a theatrical experience to watch the highly-anticipated movie might be on a time crunch.El Camino: A Breaking Bad Moviewill only be shown in theaters for one weekend only — showing in just 68 theaters across the country in cities like New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Albuquerque where the series took place.The hit AMC show followedBryan Cranstonas Walter White, a high school chemistry teacher turned drug kingpin, andAaron Paulas Jesse, his student/meth cook.Paul will reprise his role as Jesse for the film, and fans can expect to see what happens to him after he drove out of an Aryan Brotherhood compound to freedom at the end of the fifth season which aired in 2013.El Caminowill begin streaming on Netflix Oct. 11. Series creator and film director Vince Gilligan spoke toThe Hollywood Reporterabout revisiting his iconic characters, saying, “I’m hoping when the movie comes out, people won’t say, ‘Oh, man, this guy should’ve left well enough alone. Why did George Foreman keep coming out of retirement, you know?”Ursula Coyote/AMCAs for whyEl Caminowill have a theatrical debut at all, Gilligan said it was in honor of the way season premieres for the show would be shown.“Every time we’d put out a new season ofBreaking Bad, we would have a premiere in a big movie theater,” he toldTHR. “We would watch this quote-unquote television show. We would have this wonderful, very limited, one-time opportunity to watch our television show on a big screen with giant stereo speakers thumping, the image filling 40 feet across.”Gilligan continued, “I always thought, ‘This thing, it looks like a movie. It doesn’t look like a show.’ I really want to be able to share that with fans.”Paul — who teased fans for months with aBreaking Badreunion with series costar Bryan Cranston only to reveal they’d been working on Dos Hombres mezcal — had some reservations about returning to the role of Jesse.“I’m like everybody else on the planet — I think Vince and the rest of the writers really nailed the landing with the ending ofBreaking Bad,and why mess with that?” he toldTHR.His reason for returning? Gilligan himself.“It’s Vince we’re talking about. I would follow Vince into a fire. That’s how much I trust the man,” Paul said.El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movieis in theaters Oct. 11 to Oct. 13 and streams on Netflix Oct. 11.
Fans ofBreaking Badwishing for a theatrical experience to watch the highly-anticipated movie might be on a time crunch.
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Moviewill only be shown in theaters for one weekend only — showing in just 68 theaters across the country in cities like New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Albuquerque where the series took place.
The hit AMC show followedBryan Cranstonas Walter White, a high school chemistry teacher turned drug kingpin, andAaron Paulas Jesse, his student/meth cook.
Paul will reprise his role as Jesse for the film, and fans can expect to see what happens to him after he drove out of an Aryan Brotherhood compound to freedom at the end of the fifth season which aired in 2013.
El Caminowill begin streaming on Netflix Oct. 11. Series creator and film director Vince Gilligan spoke toThe Hollywood Reporterabout revisiting his iconic characters, saying, “I’m hoping when the movie comes out, people won’t say, ‘Oh, man, this guy should’ve left well enough alone. Why did George Foreman keep coming out of retirement, you know?”
Ursula Coyote/AMC
As for whyEl Caminowill have a theatrical debut at all, Gilligan said it was in honor of the way season premieres for the show would be shown.
“Every time we’d put out a new season ofBreaking Bad, we would have a premiere in a big movie theater,” he toldTHR. “We would watch this quote-unquote television show. We would have this wonderful, very limited, one-time opportunity to watch our television show on a big screen with giant stereo speakers thumping, the image filling 40 feet across.”
Gilligan continued, “I always thought, ‘This thing, it looks like a movie. It doesn’t look like a show.’ I really want to be able to share that with fans.”
Paul — who teased fans for months with aBreaking Badreunion with series costar Bryan Cranston only to reveal they’d been working on Dos Hombres mezcal — had some reservations about returning to the role of Jesse.
“I’m like everybody else on the planet — I think Vince and the rest of the writers really nailed the landing with the ending ofBreaking Bad,and why mess with that?” he toldTHR.
His reason for returning? Gilligan himself.
“It’s Vince we’re talking about. I would follow Vince into a fire. That’s how much I trust the man,” Paul said.
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movieis in theaters Oct. 11 to Oct. 13 and streams on Netflix Oct. 11.
source: people.com
