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Apple lands new series from Breaking Bad creator, co-starring Better Call Saul’s Rhea Seehorn

Apple has acquired the next series from Vince Gilligan, the award-winning creator of Breaking Bad and co-creator of its prequel, Better Call Saul.

The new series, which is currently untitled, will see Gilligan reunited with Rhea Seehorn, who co-starred in all six seasons of Better Call Saul as fan-favourite character Kim Wexler. Gilligan has previously expressed interest in working again with his fellow Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul alums, so it remains to be seen who else besides Seehorn might come on board.

Per Deadline, the series will be a “blended, grounded drama” that’s been compared to The Twilight Zone in terms of how it “bend[s] reality and focusing on people and exploring the human condition in an unexpected, surprising way.” In a statement, Gilligan added that he’s looking forward to focusing on a more heroic character after 15 years of antiheroes.

While we otherwise know little about the series, it’s nonetheless a major get for Apple TV+., as Gilligan and Seehorn are just coming off last month’s critically-acclaimed conclusion to Better Call Saul, which is itself seen as a conclusion to the Breaking Bad universe. Seehorn was also just nominated for her first Emmy, and has garnered significant buzz for a second nomination next year when Better Call Saul‘s final episodes are eligible for awards.

According to Deadline, eight or nine studios were in the running to snag Gilligan’s series, but the creator’s previous work with Apple TV+ bosses Zack Van Amburg and Jamie Erlicht on both Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul ultimately helped Apple win out.

It’s not yet clear when the new series is expected to release.

Image credit: Sony/AMC

Source: Deadline

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Breaking Bad creator wanted to adapt series into Grand Theft Auto-style game

In another timeline, we may have been playing a Breaking Bad video game inspired by Rockstar’s popular Grand Theft Auto series.

That’s according to Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan, who brought up former ideas for a game adaptation of his hit AMC/Sony Pictures Television series on the latest episode of the Inside the Gilliverse podcast.

“I’m not much of a video game player but how can you not know Grand Theft Auto?” Gilligan said. “I remember saying to the two gentlemen who said yes originally to Breaking Bad, I said ‘who owns Grand Theft Auto, can’t you have like a module, can there be like a Breaking Bad [adaptation]?’

He noted that he and the Breaking Bad creative team actually spent “a lot of energy and talent into writing three or four stories” for potential games.

“There were a lot of people hours poured into that,” Gilligan said. “Making a video game is damn hard. It takes years and millions of dollars, especially when you’re trying to break new ground with VR. It never came to fruition though, which is a shame.”

He went on to mention a couple of projects that did release, though, like the Breaking Bad VR experience for Sony’s PlayStation VR headset and the now-shuttered mobile base building game called Breaking Bad: Criminal Elements.

Given that Sony is heavily invested in the gaming space through its PlayStation division, it’s perhaps surprising that it didn’t do more with Breaking Bad in this market. Incidentally, the last Grand Theft Auto game, Grand Theft Auto V, launched in September 2013, two weeks before Breaking Bad ended, so there’s definitely been a lot of time since to make a similar game set in the “Gilliverse.”

That said, Gilligan noted that he and the Breaking Bad creative team didn’t want to release a game just to cash in on the series’ success. “You gotta make it great. Execution is everything,” he said, citing the infamous Atari E.T. game as an example of a poor adaptation.

“We just don’t have enough bandwidth usually to make it work,” Gilligan said. “I wouldn’t hold your breath on a video game.”

Instead of a video game, Gilligan has spent the years following Breaking Bad on the critically-acclaimed Better Call Saul prequel, which is itself coming to a close with an August 15th finale, and the El Camino sequel film on Netflix. That said, Gilligan says he’s planning to move on from the Breaking Bad universe after Better Call Saul, so even if Sony made a game based on that, it’s likely that the creator won’t be involved.

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Via: GameSpot

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Breaking Bad’s Vince Gilligan to create TV show about Jim Jones

‘Breaking Bad’ creator Vince Gilligan has announced he will create a new TV series about cult leader Jim Jones.

The 49-year-old creator of the hit drama series also oversaw the production of the ‘Breaking Bad’ spin-off show ‘Better Call Saul’, and his new venture will mark only the second show he has been at the helm of that doesn’t call upon the franchise.

Previously, Vince worked on a police comedy called ‘Battle Creek’, which lasted for one series in 2015 before it was cancelled by broadcaster CBS.

‘Raven’ focuses on the life of Jim Jones, the leader of the Peoples Temple cult which murdered Democrat congressman Leo Ryan in 1978. Following the murder, 918 of the cult’s members were involved in a mass suicide which saw 300 children killed by cyanide poisoning. Jim, 47, was also killed in the event by a gunshot wound to the head that is thought to be a suicide.

There will be three additional executive producers working on ‘Raven’, including Tim Reiterman who wrote a book ‘Raven: The Untold Story of Jim Jones and His People’ which documented the story of the Peoples Temple, and which the television show will be based on.

Former ‘Breaking Bad’ producer Michelle MacLaren and ‘The Help’ actress Octavia Spencer will complete the executive producer line up.

HBO have bought the rights to broadcast the show, and the series marks the second drama taking on the Peoples Temple in the works. It follows the news that Jake Gyllenhall is developing an anthology drama series that explores different cult leaders, with series one focusing on Jim Jones.