The percentage of users who rated this 3.5 stars or higher. Sometimes, the past is the past and it really is dead. American Movie Classics, Repleta de guiños a la fenomenal serie, y deudora de su efectivo balance entre tenso western crepuscular y agridulce drama humano. Fugitive Jesse Pinkman attempts to outrun his past. Gilligan agreed and eventually settled on the title El Camino, referring to Todd's car that Jesse drives away with in "Felina". [60] Days before the film's announcement, Bob Odenkirk, who stars as Saul Goodman on Better Call Saul, teased that the film was already completed and that the producers had done "an amazing job of keeping it a secret". It's not even that Vince Gilligan answering that question was a bad idea. Jesse drives to Neil's shop, where Neil, Casey, and three friends celebrate with escorts and cocaine. As revealed by the New York Times, the Breaking Bad movie will be titled El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie, with the global release date set for Friday, Oct. 11 on Netflix. [36] While Paul agreed with Gilligan's decision, he mentioned that he was "crushed" that it did not appear in the film. [109], For El Camino's limited theatrical release, 12 of the 125 theaters that screened the film reported a combined gross of $40,000, an average of $3,333 per venue. They sidestep Lou, Todd's busybody neighbor, and bury the corpse in the desert. [126] When comparing El Camino to other franchise continuation projects, Roxanne Sancto of Little White Lies mentioned that "movie spin-offs [have] become a dangerous trend that often ends in disappointment ... the balance needs to be just right and, fortunately, creator Vince Gilligan has nailed it with El Camino". [11] The hallway scene was filmed the next day; afterward Cranston immediately returned to the airport. [21], Additionally, several locations from Breaking Bad were reused including the Pinkman residence, Ed Galbraith's vacuum repair shop, and the strip mall that contained Saul Goodman's office. Other than that, this is totally a Breaking Bad story, and a great one. After thinking about the suggestion for a couple of weeks, Gilligan incorporated the idea into his script. The tone on the border of deadpan and surreal remains in place, so too the frantic pinball scripting in which everything that can go wrong does, but rarely quite how you imagined. The much-anticipated Breaking Bad movie has an official title and a release date. El Camino is simply an addendum to the Breaking Bad book. [54], To shoot his scenes for the film, Bryan Cranston flew to Albuquerque in a private jet during a January two-day break from his performance in the Broadway play Network. [56] The diner scene was filmed first, with the set containing only crew members and their families serving as extras in order to keep the shoot confidential. The film was formally announced in February 2019, and was later revealed to be named El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie. | Rating: B+ [111], El Camino will receive its first home video release on October 13, 2020, as a DVD/Blu-ray combo packaged in a limited edition steelbook from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. After getting electrocuted by an MRI machine, an ambitious young medical student begins to hear the thoughts of others. [68] He described the film's contents and resulting score as more "cerebral" and "psychological", rather than relying on "fast-paced adrenaline". Aaron Paul and the cast of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul react to trailer comments from El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie. Two police officers, Casey and Neil, enter the apartment and begin to search. We have good news for fans who don’t have Netflix or who […] A solid if unnecessary epilogue showing fans what happened to Pinkman after we last saw him drive away to freedom after being saved by Walt's blaze of glory. Watch offline. [75] Though the scene was not used in the final cut, some critics noted after the premiere of its significance in the film's chronology, speculating that it likely took place shortly after Jesse and Skinny Pete parted ways. Breaking Bad follow-up movie El Camino debuted on Netflix last year, finally revealing the fate of Aaron Paul’s Jesse Pinkman after the acclaimed AMC drama gave him an ambiguous ending in 2013 when he escaped his captors in a stolen Chevrolet El Camino. While her mother is abroad, an 18-year-old who's lived in a hippie commune all her life sneaks out into the real world to find her biological father. The story of a desperate man with nothing to lose and what he is willing to do for his family's survival. Producer Melissa Bernstein suggested adding a bit more gravitas to the scene in order to let it resonate further with the audiences. Entertaining if not essential, El Camino adds a satisfying belated coda to the Breaking Bad story -- led by a career-best performance from Aaron Paul. [53], An additional sequence filmed outside of New Mexico included the concluding scenes of Jesse and Ed Galbraith making their final exchanges, followed by Jesse driving towards his new life in Haines, Alaska.