Breaking Bad’s Future After Better Call Saul Ending Gets Thoughtful Response From Bryan Cranston

Bryan Cranston offers a thoughtful response as to whether there should be a future for the Breaking Bad franchise post-Better Call Saul’s ending.

Bryan Cranston gives an honest, well-thought-out response as to whether the Breaking Bad universe should continue post-Better Call Saul. The world of shady legal representatives, criminal enterprise, and a dying school teacher’s fall from grace began with Vince Gilligan’s beloved drama in 2008, running for five seasons until 2013. Gilligan revisited the world of Breaking Bad through the 2019 continuation movie El Camino: A Breaking Bad movie and the six-season spin-off Better Call Saul from 2015-22.

With Breaking Bad recently celebrating its sixteenth anniversary, the leading star of the series opened up to ET Online about what the future could hold for the series following Better Call Saul’s conclusion. Rather than speculate on what could come next or what he’d be interested in, Cranston instead discussed the importance of stories having a closed narrative, and that while he was proud of his work portraying White, he was perfectly fine with letting the story go and moving on to new things. Check out Cranston’s full thoughtful response below:

Everything should come to an end. Everything’s cyclical. Our lives are cyclical. The seasons, trees, everything. And, so, it’s okay to have a beginning, middle, and end, and then let it go. I’m proud of what we did.

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have been no further additions to the Breaking Bad franchise, and no future Breaking Bad spin-offs are in the works. Gilligan himself has stated that he isn’t eager to revisit the world any time soon, stating in 2022 that he didn’t want to feel like his universe had overstayed its welcome and was just releasing new projects set within the world to capitalize on the success instead of being thoughtful works of a higher quality. Furthermore, Gilligan is currently working on an original Apple TV+ sci-fi series.

Furthermore, it can be argued that many of the threads that began in 2008 have been neatly tied up as of Better Call Saul’s conclusion. Walt’s story ended with Breaking Bad’s conclusion in 2013, while Jesse (Aaron Paul) found a new life in Alaska in El Camino, and Saul’s deeds finally caught up with him in his own series, winding down the sprawling case of Walter White’s drug enterprises. With each key character finding their conclusions, Breaking Bad’s sprawling multi-show narrative has left few hanging threads of interest for future stories to follow.

While co-star Giancarlo Esposito hopes for a Gus Fring origin project, Cranston’s comments on the importance of endings may be respected by many fans. Though there could be room for future projects set within the world of Breaking Bad, each production within the franchise has met acclaim for how it resolved the chaotic lives of Walt, Jesse, Saul, and those they hated and loved. As such, leaving Breaking Bad behind could ensure that the messages of these stories can be enjoyed for many years to come by new and old fans without fears of their impacts being overwritten.