Better Call SaulgaveBreaking Badstar Bob Odenkirk his own series as egocentric criminal defense attorney Saul Goodman. As the series comes to a conclusion in its sixth season, the question of whetherBreaking Badstars Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul will reprise their roles as Walter White and Jesse Pinkman seems to be finally getting answered.
The final season of the series will besplit into two halves, with the first episodes premiering on April 18 and the second half of the season following in July. In the run-up to the first episode of season 6 arriving, creators Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould have given the best indication yet that these final episodes will see the series crossover withBreaking Badin the way everyone hoped for from the start.
Speaking toVariety, Gilligan stopped just short of outright confirming that Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul will appear in the final episodes of the series in some way, saying:
“It would be a damn shame if the show ended without [Cranston and Paul] appearing, would it not? You heard it here first.”
Although Gould added that if there was going to be a crossover then:
“This is when these two shows start crossing over… These two worlds crossover in a way that you haven’t seen before, that’s for sure.”
Of course, at the beginning ofBreaking Bad, Walter White is a respected chemistry teacher, while Paul is in and out of trouble on a number of occasions, but where the two shows will interconnect is not yet clear. However, while many wondered if the 2019 movieEl Camino: A Breaking Bad Filmwould be the last time we would see Walter and Jesse, it seems that there is just one more appearance to come to fully complete theBreaking Badstory.
Related:Everything We Want to See in Better Call Saul Season 6
Better Call Saul Suffered Delays Due To Covid and the On-Set Collapse of Bob Odenkirk.
Filming on the sixth and final season ofBetter Call Saulwas originally set to begin in September 2020. Of course, the ongoing uncertainty around the Covid pandemic meant that this was pushed back a number of times, finally commencing in March 2021. The effects of the pandemic became apparent when instead of the 9 days taken to film an episode in the previous seasons, this time around that was extended to around three weeks. In all, the original eight-month shoot ended up taking eleven months, finally coming to an end in February 2022.
In the middle of filming, the shoot ran into another lengthy delay when star Odenkirk was rushed to hospital after suffering a heart attack. While the production continued where possible, things were not able to get moving fully until the actor had taken a couple of months out to recover from his unexpected and frightening ordeal. With the final season now ready to roll out, early reviews have already suggested that just likeBreaking Bad, Better Call Saulis going to go out on a high.
