![]() So good behavior, right? I appreciate it, Jesse.ĭEGGANS: Vince Gilligan, who wrote and directed "El Camino," often centers his stories on the banality of evil - lunkheaded men who will eat a bowl of soup and make small talk after committing a murder. It'll basically be out of my hands at that point. If you try to, you know, escape, I'm going to have to visit the little boy. JESSE PLEMONS: (As Todd Alquist) So I hate to be all, like - but we got to talk ground rules. Another flashback shows how the owner of that El Camino, an even-tempered psychopath named Todd Alquist, kept Jesse in check by threatening the son of his girlfriend. It picks up seconds after the finale of "Breaking Bad" as Jesse is speeding away from a compound where he was held captive by a gang of murderous neo-Nazis.ĭEGGANS: Jesse is yelling, hysterical, driving away at breakneck speed in a stolen El Camino - hence the title - and deeply traumatized. It's not a grand return to the former glory of "Breaking Bad." It's a deftly directed tale about a desperate man fighting for his freedom. Six years after creator Vince Gilligan provided the perfect conclusion to the epic saga of meth-making, ex-high school teacher Walter White, "El Camino" returns to complete the story of his former student and partner in the drug trade, Jesse Pinkman.īut this film is a smaller movie. That's the one thing you could never do.ĭEGGANS: It's an oddly quiet, yet ominous beginning for a movie that's a blockbuster project. PAUL: (As Jesse Pinkman) Put things right.īANKS: (As Mike Ehrmantraut) No. ![]() Come on - like, if you were my age.īANKS: (As Mike Ehrmantraut) If I were your age starting fresh - Alaska. JONATHAN BANKS: (As Mike Ehrmantraut) It doesn't matter. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "EL CAMINO: A BREAKING BAD MOVIE")ĪARON PAUL: (As Jesse Pinkman) Where would you go if you were me? ![]() Jesse wonders where he might go with all the money he's earned. He's talking to another character beloved by fans, Jonathan Banks' grizzled enforcer Mike Ehrmantraut. ![]() NPR's TV critic Eric Deggans has it with some spoilers.ĮRIC DEGGANS, BYLINE: "El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie" begins with a flashback to a moment when Aaron Paul's Jesse Pinkman is thinking about getting out of the meth-making business. Now, a new movie on Netflix tells us what happened. In Ozymandias, the antepenultimate episode of the Breaking Bad series, Vince Gilligan used a flashback scene to show Jesse and Walt cooking meth in the RV from when the teacher and student first made drugs together.If you loved "Breaking Bad" as I did, one question haunted you after the show ended - what happened to Walter White's partner, Jesse Pinkman? He was last seen fleeing a massacre. Since there several locations from the Breaking Bad TV show, this opens the door for Walter White to return by appearing in the movie via flashbacks. On the set of El Camino, there have been plenty of throwbacks to Breaking Bad, including Mike Ehrmantraut’s car, Pinkman’s old car, an old compound lab, Ed the Disappearer’s vacuum repair shop and there has been filming at the home of Jesse’s parents. There are also photos from the set of El Camino including Breaking Bad locations and familiar faces. Also shown is a photo of the apartment belonging to Jane Margolis, who rented out to Jesse Pinkman, and they later became boyfriend and girlfriend. White and Jesse’s iconic RV from Breaking Bad that they used to make their first batch of crystal blue meth was spotted in Albuquerque and can be seen here. Behind-the-scene images from the set of El Camino hint that Walter White is making a comeback… maybe.įilming for El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie has been going on in Albuquerque, New Mexico, since November 2018 under the working title of Greenbrier. The upcoming movie was believed to have moved past Bryan Cranston’s meth empire-building character Walter White, especially since Heisenberg was thought to have died in the final episode of season 5 from a gunshot wound.īut Walter White may make one last appearance if these leaked photos from the set of El Camino are accurate. The movie based on the incredible AMC TV show that won 16 Primetime Emmy Awards and received 58 nominations. The official synopsis from Netflix reads: “In the wake of his dramatic escape from captivity, Jesse must come to terms with his past in order to forge some kind of future.” El Camino will focus on Jesse Pinkman played by Emmy-winning actor Aaron Paul.
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