As “Breaking Bad” returns for what will be its final episodes, there is some possibility that at least one of its characters will continue to have a life on television.
“Breaking Bad” creator Vince Gilligan said in a TV Critics press tour panel Friday “it is my fervent wish that there will be a Saul Goodman spin off.”
Gilligan says he’s been working with his writer Peter Gould, who created the amusingly slippery lawyer character in season two, and Bob Odenkirk, who plays him, to create a series.
Gilligan says they have been “trying to figure out exactly what shape a Saul Goodman series would entail. I’m not speaking for any company or professional entity when I say that I really hope it happens. You know it’s for powers bigger than me to figure out if can come to fruition, but I would very much like it to be the case. And, creatively, we’re working toward that.”
For his own part, Odenkirk says, “I would love to do it. I’d do it in a second. I’d do it because, if Vince wrote it, it’s going to be awesome. And other than that, though, the spin off for me is just having been on this show, and it’s everything good that’s already come from me being a part of this is all I would ever need, makes me very happy.”