Poll of the Day > Breaking Bad movie will be a sequel following Jesse after the series finale.

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Over the course of five incredible seasons, Breaking Bad put its cast of characters through the wringer. But no one suffered quite like Aaron Pauls Jesse Pinkman, the meth-dealing loser who lost everything (and everyone) that mattered to him simply because he was unfortunate enough to enter the orbit of Walter White.

And his suffering isnt over yet. /Film has learned that the newly announced Breaking Bad movie will be a sequel set after the events of the series finale, following Jesse as he blazes a trail away from that horrifying finale.

Last night, we learned that series creator Vince Gilligan was writing and executive producing a Breaking Bad movie, although it is unknown if he will also direct. It was also suggested that this will be a television movie, as it is being make through Gilligans deal with Sony TV, who produced the original show (which aired on AMC). There was even the briefest of brief loglines: the movie would [track] the escape of a kidnapped man and his quest for freedom.

And yes, Breaking Bad fans, you put two and two together correctly: we have confirmed that the kidnapped man is Jesse Pinkman and the movie will follow his escape from Albuquerque following the bloody events of the series finale. Naturally, Aaron Paul is set to reprise the role, which won him three Emmy awards for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series.

Spoilers for Breaking Bads final episode are strewn throughout the rest of this article like the bodies of Heisenbergs enemies.

In the final season of Breaking Bad, Jesse was abducted and held captive by a group of neo-Nazi scumbags, who forced him to cook Heisenbergs blue meth recipe while Walter White himself absconded to the wilderness to die lonely and rich. Chained in a dark room and tormented, Jesse made an unsuccessful escape attempt and was forced to watch as Andrea (the woman he had fallen for) was executed for his actions. It only ended when Walter ego recharged by guilt, rage, and the desire to reclaim his dark legacy arrived and science-murdered the Nazi crew with a remote control machine gun. After strangling his chief tormenter Todd and sparing Mr. White, Jesse drove into the night, overcome with manic joy and panic, all told through Aaron Pauls stunning and heartbreaking screams of rage and laughter.

Jesse had escaped, but he wasnt really free. His story was intentionally left wide open, a big question mark for a character who often made the wrong decision at every fork in the road. And now, it looks like Gilligan is going to bring some closure to the poor man. Maybe.

Shortly after the finale aired, Gilligan spitballed what could happen to Jesse next. Does this suggest what the movie could be about? We shall see:

My personal feeling is that he got away. But the most likely thing, as negative as this sounds, is that theyre going to find this kids fingerprints all over this lab and theyre going to find him within a day or a week or a month. And hes still going to be on the hook for the murder of two federal agents. But yeah, even though thats the most likely outcome, the way I see it is that he got away and got to Alaska, changed his name, and had a new life. You want that for the kid. He deserves it.

This wont be the first time Gilligan has expanded the Breaking Bad universe. The prequel series Better Call Saul recently ended its fourth critically-acclaimed season, proving that there is still plenty of untapped potential in this world. A film sequel suggests Gilligan only wants to expand and deepen the Breaking Bad universe, which would sound like a terrible idea if Better Call Saul hadnt already proven that this can be done so well. And while Aaron Paul hasnt been wanting for work, hes yet to find a post-Breaking Bad role that has fit him quite as well as Jesse Pinkman. Giving him a chance to revisit this character once more feels right.

No title or release date has been set for the Breaking Bad movie just yet, but production is expected to begin in New Mexico soon.

Yeah bitch!

Jesse better get a happy goddamn ending.
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All I've seen was the Mythbusters episode. The car idea was neat.
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Whargarble posted...

Jesse better get a happy goddamn ending.

Why are you so keen on watching him go to a massage parlor?
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I actually just finished watching this for the first time last week. I was rooting for Jesse the whole time. He definitely deserves a happy ending after everything he's been through.
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Does anyone else feel like its too little to late for a movie? Shoupd just do a whole season about jesse.
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yutterh posted...

Does anyone else feel like its too little to late for a movie? Shoupd just do a whole season about jesse.

Nah, it feels like how some anime will have an OVA like 3 years after the fact. If BCS didn't exist, it would be weird. We've got the before, now we get the after.
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is this before malcom in the middle?
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It's after Malcom in the middle and before Jessica Jones.

Jessie is going to be in the next season of JJ though:)
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God I hope they don't. Jesse had a bittersweet ending. It was great.

Also, they make it sound like Walter went there because he wanted to be the meth king again. I'm fairly certain they were showing that he was redeeming himself, at least in some small way, for his evil.
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Smarkil posted...

God I hope they don't. Jesse had a bittersweet ending. It was great.

This. They can only make things worse.
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I mean I'll watch it but I feel like the series wrapped up nicely in the end and didn't need any sequel or spinoff.

Deadwood on the other hand ran for three seasons and was ended prematurely with every story line left open. Now they're finally filming a movie over a decade later to give it a proper ending, with all the original cast(except Powers Boothe RIP) reprising their roles. I've been waiting for this since the show was cancelled. They were originally going to make two movies to end the series, but instead they tore down the set and put the idea on the back burner.
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