Although Better Call Saul was born as a simple spin-off of Breaking Bad, as the story progressed, the series starring Bob Odenkirk became the favorite of many… but where did the idea of creating it come from?
There is less and less to go until the sixth and final season of Better Call Saul hit the small screen. Now with the return of Walter White Y Jesse Pinkman Confirmed to close with a bang, fans are more excited than ever. How crazy that a series that was born as an ordinary spin-off of breaking bad has ended up becoming one of the most popular and successful programs in recent years. Which leads us to askwhere did the idea of making a show about Saul Goodman?
doWhat happens when a very particular criminal lawyer from breaking bad takes great importance and becomes a favorite of several fans? Basically, he is given a backstory and a spin-off is created that has him as the protagonist. However, the idea of doing Better Call Saul It was not so, but it was born as a joke while the main series was being recorded.
Saul Goodman either James “Jimmy” Morgan McGill is a criminal (and perhaps sleazy to some) attorney who made his name in breaking bad for his peculiar television commercials where he always mentions his motto: Better Call Saul. Later, she took center stage for helping the protagonists of the series, of course.
Yes ok Better Call Saul was born of breaking bad, the series was formed based on jokes and jokes that were not strong enough to include in the main series. “When you’re working on something that’s really dark and scary in a way, you make more jokes.”, said the co-creator of the series, peter gould, in an interview with Collider. As he told Gouldone of those jokes was that when the team had ideas that wouldn’t work for the story of Walter Whitethey would save them for use in the hypothetical program of Saul Goodman.
Also, when talking about when the idea of giving Saul Goodman a series, peter gould commented: “It was a joke at first. What’s interesting about the writers room breaking bad It was that as the show got darker, bleaker, cancerous and deadlier, the more frivolous and silly/funny we became in the room.”. This habit of the team and its ill-timed humor, Gould described it as “a kind of pendulum effect“, a natural response to working on something as dark and scary as Breaking Bad.
As for the character of Saul Goodman in breaking badnot even the same actor, Bob Odenkirk, He believed that his role was going to take on a lot of importance in the story. “The first question of Bob on set it was ‘you guys are going to kill me pretty quick aren’t you?’ He didn’t suppose we had big plans for his character.”explained Gouldand I add: “I told him that we had put together a very expensive set for his office and that we were going to try to use it… We ended up using it a lot more than he ever expected.”
On the other hand, the co-creator of the series, Vince Gilliganmatches this origin story of Better Call Saul and told EW that the spin-off started for him as a joke during the filming of season 2: “We joke about it so often in the writers room that we think maybe it’s not a joke.”. When I finish Breaking Bad, Gilligan and Gould they had decided to make the series a reality and started talking to Sony.
Odenkirk had told EW that the first time he heard about the possibility of a spin-off about his character was while filming the debut episode of Saul. After recording a scene in the lawyer’s office, where he was telling Walter White a bit about his backstory and that he used to be Jimmy McGilla cameraman joked with Odenkirk and Told him: “Can I get a job in the sequel?”
In the beginning, Better Call Saul was intended to be a half-hour comedy and that “week after week famous comedians arrive with their legal problems. But we didn’t know anything about writing straight comedy.”said Gilligan.
The sixth and final season of Better Call Saul It will be divided into two parts. The first will start on April 18, while the second will start on July 11.