Bryan Cranston confirmed on Friday what has been rumored since the season four finale: The final season of “Breaking Bad” — a 16-episode super season — will be split into two. According to Bryan Cranston, “We’re splitting it. We’re going to shoot the first eight, then take a four-month production break, then the rest will air next year.” There’s no official return date, though Cranston has previously suggested that “Breaking Bad” will return in July. Eight episodes should take it through August.
What’s unknown is whether the second half of the season will air after the four-month hiatus — which would mean around January — or if AMC will hold it until the subsequent July (boo!). If the 2011/2012 schedule holds, January/February 2103 could potentially mean running the second half of a “Walking Dead” season as a lead-in for “Breaking Bad” in early 2013, which would be a huge boost to Cranston’s series. “The Walking Dead” is cable’s highest rated scripted program.
Cranston will also be directing the premiere episode in the back 8. He also suggested that the series will — as we predicted earlier — essentially replace Gus Fring’s big bad with Walter White, who may transform from anti-hero to full-blown villain.
“We pick up right where we left off,” Cranston says of the fifth-season opener. “We’re cleaning up the pieces from last season’s huge ordeal where Gus Fring was forced to meet his maker. It’s not as easy as Walter thought. And as we’ve discovered over the years, you don’t really know who Walter White is. I’m still discovering who he is and I’m trying to allow myself to be open to him going darker and darker. There’s physical danger to himself and his family, plus there’s the emotional danger due to his anger and hubris. It’s about the evil that men do and where that takes him.”
I’d wish July here faster, but that’d mean rushing ourselves past cable’s second best series, “Game of Thrones,” and that’s something I want to savor. Take it your time, “Breaking Bad.” Get it right.
(Source: EW)
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I think if there is anything we have learned in the last four years, is that Breaking Bad is completely focused on a perfect story. I’m not sure I trust another showrunner as much as I trust Vince Gilligan
I’m just gonna go ahead and stare at the calendar until July comes.
Before I re-read that headline, I thought that we were calling him “The Walt” now.
So did I!
Hopefully this is the season where Cranston fakes being insane so he gets locked into Arkham and then during a riot gets locked in Mr.Freezes cell and gets severe frostbite and has his nose, ears, lips and a few fingers amputated and fully transforms into The Great White Shark.
The same happened with Venture Bros. last season. Hopefully Gilligan doesn’t tack on another three months and add a few more weeks for the finalie.
A couple of things I see happening…
- Walter is going to be extremely cocky and self-assured now that he’s taken out someone that was deemed untouchable. His fate will be doomed because of it in some way.
- When Mike gets out of that Mexican hospital, he’s going to be ultra pissed that Walter killed his boss.
- Jesse is going to find out who poisoned the kid.
- Walter’s bro-in-law is going to have to discover he’s Heisenberg, right? This will lead to…Walter killing him? Him killing Walter in the series finale? Him ignoring it? Him going on the take? Who knows?
Forgot Mike’s still in the hospital. Maybe Walt will hire Mike and he’ll have to make Mike kill Hank and then face off with Skylar in the finale after she confronts him with what he’s done.
I bet Walt Jr. will eat breakfast at some point too
@Knifey McStab *slow clap*
Game of Thrones the second best show on cable? Hmmm…still wading my way through the first season on blu-ray, but it’s definitely believable. I’d kinda like to see a “best shows on TV” post.
it’s really good.
Damn, I can’t wait until July. This has to end with Walt dying, right? There is no way Walt can have a “happy ending”, maybe Jesse can have a semi-happy ending because he’s actually become a better person, but not Walt.
Cannot fucking wait for this show to come back. I crammed the first four seasons into about a month’s worth of watching and now I am starving for more. Side note: I originally was going to do the same with Mad Men and I’m stuck midway through Season 3.
We are not so different you and I. I did exactly that and I finally finished season 3 of mad men like a week ago, and so far season 4, in the few episodes I’ve watched, has been the best imo. Nothing on TV currently compares to breaking bad, second favorite show ever, behind LOST.