Breaking Bad boss teases new TV show with "no crime and no meth"
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Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan has teased his new series will feature "no crime, and no methamphetamine".
A decade on from the Breaking Bad finale, Gilligan's as-yet-untitled new show will see him go back to sci-fi, after getting his big break in television on The X-Files.
The series, which has already been granted a two-season order from Apple TV+, will begin filming in New Mexico later this year. Work will start again in its writers' room on Monday (October 9), following the recent agreement to end the WGA strike.
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Speaking to Variety about the new series, Gilligan highlighted the difference between it and his previous works, despite both being set in Albuquerque.
"I wouldn't call this heavy science fiction, I would call it mild science fiction," he explained. "But it does have a sci-fi element to it, at its core. And there's no crime, and no methamphetamine.
"It's going to be fun and different. I have no prediction as to how folks to react to it — whether they'll love it or hate it, or somewhere in the vast in-between. But I know it's a story that interests me."
The new series will star Rhea Seehorn, who played Kim Wexler in Breaking Bad spin-off Better Call Saul, and Gilligan is keen to point out viewers will be seeing her in a very different role.
"Rhea will be playing a very different character than she played on Saul," Gilligan explained. "The weird thing is that it takes place in Albuquerque, except it's a whole different world. There's no overlap that I can see.
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"She's playing a character who is not Kim Wexler, but hopefully people will roll with that. I’m nervous. It'll be interesting to see how folks react to it."
While the show's plot is being kept under wraps, Gilligan did tease a little of what viewers can expect from the series.
"The world changes very abruptly in the first episode, and then it is quite different," Gilligan said. "It's the modern world – the world we live in – but it changes very abruptly.
"And the consequences that that reaps hopefully provide drama for many, many episodes after that."
All seasons of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul are available to stream now on Netflix.
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