Breaking Bad creator, Vince Gilligan has shared his ideas about the alternate endings his team were kicking around when deciding how Walter White should die.
Gilligan was asked in an in interview with Entertainment Weekly whether the characters who stayed alive were for a reason of a spin-offs.
“On the face of it, it would certainly read like we were being strategic in our thinking, if not mercenary, to ensure that Saul Goodman stayed alive because we had already talked publicly about our desire to do a Better Call Saul spin-off,” he said.
“Having said that, in those final months and weeks of breaking the end of the Breaking Bad story, anything and everything was fair game and open for discussion. We talked a great many times about killing off Saul and we were open to it.”
He went on to say that they considered killing not just every major character but everybody in the Breaking Bad series, adding:
“We would have done whatever it took to come up with the best, most satisfying ending to Breaking Bad, including killing off Saul. But the more we talked about it, the more we thought, “You know, we don’t necessarily want the end of this series to be a bloodbath.” At one point, we talked about killing off every major character, and one particularly dark week along the way we talked about killing everybody — having some sort of Wild Bunch bloodbath of an ending. But you live with those ideas for a while and you think, “What do we need to kill all these characters for?”
“Just because an ending is dramatic or perhaps overly dramatic does not ensure that it will be satisfying.” And added:“Saul Goodman is kind of like a cockroach, in the sense that he’s probably going to survive all nuclear wars and he’ll still be out there somewhere after mankind has become extinct.”
“He’s a survivor and therefore it’d be weird if he didn’t survive. Walter White, on the other hand, got a death sentence in the first act of the very first episode. It would be less than satisfying perhaps if he didn’t die at the end of the whole thing.”
Walter Walt, everybody’s favorite or most hated character, whom we miss may have died, but Jesse Pinkman at least managed to start a new life, with actor Aaron Paul recently saying he imagines him now working as a carpenter in Alaska.
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