El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie is a 2019 American crime thriller film.
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29 Facts About El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
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Several actors involved in Breaking Bad reprised their roles, including Jesse Plemons, Krysten Ritter, Charles Baker, Matt Jones, Robert Forster, Jonathan Banks, and Bryan Cranston.
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El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie approached Paul with the idea for the film in 2017, near the tenth anniversary of the show's premiere, and completed the script several months later.
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The film garnered several award nominations, winning Best Movie Made for Television at the Critics' Choice Television Awards and Best Motion Picture Made for Television at the Satellite Awards.
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El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie goes to the Albuquerque home of Skinny Pete and Badger, who hide the car and give Jesse a place to sleep.
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El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie learns from the radio news of Walter's potentially fatal poisoning of a woman, and of Walter's death.
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El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie recovers Neil's cash and departs after setting an explosion to cover his tracks.
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El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie tells her he admires what she said about going wherever the universe takes her, but she dismisses it as metaphorical and encourages him to make his own decisions.
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El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie asked himself what happened to Jesse Pinkman after the events of the episode when Jesse escaped from the neo-Nazis' compound after being rescued by Walter White.
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El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie received similar feedback when separately pitching ideas for the film with the writing staff of Better Call Saul, a Breaking Bad spin-off created by Gilligan that still aired at the time.
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El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie likened his reaction from his first reading of El Camino to his response from his first reading of "Felina", and lauded Gilligan for approaching the script with caution and care.
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El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie felt El Camino could be seen independently from both Breaking Bad and its spinoff Better Call Saul, similarly to how the two series could be seen independently from one another.
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El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie likened his scenes with Jesse to a dark buddy comedy.
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El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie described Neil as being more sociopathic than Todd, saying it would take someone of Neil's caliber to create the dog run that physically tethered Jesse without asking too many questions or even caring about Jesse's condition.
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El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie incorporated the idea into his script, and Jane ultimately delivered the final lines of El Camino.
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El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie retained possession of the letter after filming finished and shared his hopes that the letter's contents will eventually be revealed to the public.
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El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie likened his reprisal as Jesse to zipping on an old friend.
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El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie specified the opening of Jesse driving out of the compound as one scene he updated using this approach, likening it to a "direct cut" from Jesse's last appearance in Breaking Bads finale.
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El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie instead chose to have flashbacks filmed in a "handheld" look while having the present-day scenes more anchored and locked down.
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El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie then arranged for Gilligan to shoot the Better Call Saul scene with Forster in person during the film's production, months before filming began for any other episodes.
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El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie described maintaining rhythm and pacing without the use of commercial breaks as one of the biggest differences between his work on the film and the two television series.
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El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie arranged the music in the beginning of the film to resemble that of an episode of Breaking Bad before gradually sounding unique to Jesse.
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El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie described his main goal in designing the film's sound as wanting to link back to the score used in the series, but in a manner that it would not feel jarring or out of place.
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El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie had its world premiere on October 7,2019, at the Regency Village Theatre in Los Angeles, with multiple cast members from the film, Breaking Bad, and Better Call Saul in attendance.
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El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie credited cinematographer Marshall Adams, editor Skip Macdonald, and composer Dave Porter, all of whom worked on Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, for helping El Camino "return to the original show's grammar".
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Three awards won by the film included Best El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie Made for Television at the Critics' Choice Television Awards, Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Single Presentation at the Golden Reel Awards, and Best Motion Picture Made for Television at the Satellite Awards.
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El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie suggested a possible sequel could take place in Haines.
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El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie expressed a desire to work with Gilligan again, regardless if the project was related to Breaking Bad or not.
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