admonition : There are major despoiler ahead forEl Camino , theBreaking Badfollow - up picture show that premiered on Netflix October 11 .
After years of speculation , onesecretNew Mexico production ( filmed under the titleGreenbrier ) , and actors sworn to confidentiality , El Camino : A dampen BadMovielanded on Netflix last Friday . In the two - 60 minutes plastic film , viewers learned the ultimate fate of Jesse Pinkman ( Aaron Paul ) , the meth - manipulate chum to chemistry teacher - turned - drug - top banana Walter White ( Bryan Cranston ) . take flight from imprisonment imposed by white supremacists forcing him to make illegitimate substances , Pinkman gathers enough funds to trade in blue sparkler for double-dyed white Alaskan territory , driving toward a presumably happier future .
It was an termination in line with what Paul had envisioned for the character , evenmentioningAlaska as a possible terminus in a Reddit AMA back in 2016 . ButBreaking Badcreator andEl Caminowriter / manager Vince Gillian originally specify on putting the screws to the beleaguered Pinkman one last time .
Speaking withVulture , Gilligan pronounce that his vision for Pinkman involved a scenario where he would be forced to give his freedom so as to save someone else . “ Once I had set about come up with this flick , for the longest clock time I had it in my mind that the affair we want most to see was for Jesse to escape [ his honest-to-goodness life ] , ” he said . “ And the affair he wanted most was to escape . So I was trying to think up a plot in which , hero that he is , he saves somebody else — somebody I would have introduced as a new character reference into the movie . Because he ’s such an innately heroic part in my mind , he saves someone at the destruction of the movie and he willfully cause himself caught bonk that it ’ll save this other person . At the end of the motion-picture show , he ’d be locked in a gaol cell somewhere in Montana or someplace . And he would be at peace with it . ”
Labeling his notion as “ emo - type ” interior storytelling intended to corrupt expectations , Gilligan enjoin he received mostly damaging responses when discussing the thought with confidantes , includingBetter Call Saulshowrunner Peter Gould . The consensus was that Pinkman deserve some kind of affirmative closure . Given that he has witnessed several homicides , committed a few murder of his own , miss his lady friend to a drug overdose , get word his new girl ’s boy poisoned , and was finally operate in a muddle in the ground , it might have made little sensory faculty to bring the character back from a six - year abatement just to torment him some more .
Gilligan yield , and Pinkman now seems to have more of a fighting chance go forward . “ Sometimes , ” the author said , “ you just flummox to give family line what they require . ”
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