1. Vince Gilligan is best known as the creator, primary writer, executive producer, and occasional director of the AMC crime drama series Breaking Bad and its spin-off prequel series Better Call Saul.
34 Facts About Vince Gilligan
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Vince Gilligan wrote, directed, and produced the Breaking Bad sequel film El Camino.
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Vince Gilligan has won four Primetime Emmy Awards, six Writers Guild of America Awards, two Critics' Choice Television Awards, two Producers Guild of America Awards, a Directors Guild of America Award, and a BAFTA Television Award.
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Vince Gilligan was raised Catholic but would later describe himself as "pretty much agnostic".
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Vince Gilligan used the camera to make science fiction films with Patrick.
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Vince Gilligan was a wonderful lady and a real inspiration.
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Vince Gilligan was recognized for his talents and creativity at an early age.
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Vince Gilligan's father described him as a "kind of a studious-type young man, and he liked to read, and he had a vivid imagination".
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Vince Gilligan introduced Gilligan to film noir classics, as well as John Wayne and Clint Eastwood Westerns on late-night television.
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Vince Gilligan won a scholarship to attend the prestigious Interlochen Center for the Arts.
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One of the judges of the competition was film producer Mark Johnson, who was impressed by Vince Gilligan and called him "the most imaginative writer" he had ever read.
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Vince Gilligan studied holography under Jason Sapan at Holographic Studios in New York City.
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Vince Gilligan was a fan of the show, and submitted a script to Fox which became the second-season episode "Soft Light".
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Vince Gilligan went on to write 29 more episodes, in addition to being co-executive producer of 44 episodes, executive producer of 40, co-producer of 24, and supervising producer of 20.
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Vince Gilligan co-created and became executive producer of The X-Files spin-off series The Lone Gunmen.
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Vince Gilligan created, wrote, directed, and produced the AMC drama series Breaking Bad.
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Vince Gilligan created the series with the premise that the hero would become the villain.
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Vince Gilligan has been awarded numerous times for writing, directing, and producing the series.
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Vince Gilligan received two Primetime Emmys in 2013 and 2014 for producing the show.
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Vince Gilligan co-created the series with Breaking Bad writer Peter Gould, with both of them acting as showrunners.
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The first episode, which Vince Gilligan directed and co-wrote, premiered on February 8,2015.
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Vince Gilligan would leave the Better Call Saul writing staff early in the third season to focus on projects, resulting in Gould becoming sole showrunner.
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Vince Gilligan remained involved in Better Call Sauls production in a reduced role, directing episodes in the fourth and fifth seasons, before returning to the writers room in the sixth.
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In July 2018, it was announced that Vince Gilligan had agreed to stay with Sony TV on a new three-year deal.
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Vince Gilligan quietly developed the script for El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie, which wraps up the story of Jesse Pinkman following the events of "Felina", Breaking Bad finale, ahead of the show's tenth anniversary.
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Vince Gilligan co-wrote the first episode with Shore, the showrunner of the series.
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Vince Gilligan first had a screenplay produced in 1993 for the romantic comedy film Wilder Napalm.
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Vince Gilligan rewrote the screenplay for the 2008 Will Smith film Hancock, which was originally written by Vincent Ngo.
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Vince Gilligan was hired by The X-Files creator Chris Carter to be a consulting producer on his new series Harsh Realm.
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Vince Gilligan made his acting debut in 2014 in "VCR Maintenance and Educational Publishing", the ninth episode of the fifth season of NBC's comedy series Community.
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Vince Gilligan plays a cheesy actor hosting "Pile of Bullets", a fictional 1990s VCR-based video game.
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In 2016, it was announced that Vince Gilligan would be developing an HBO limited miniseries about Jim Jones and the 1978 Jonestown tragedy.
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However, in 2018, Vince Gilligan said that he had slowed down on developing the project.
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Vince Gilligan has proclaimed that he found both fundamental Christianity and atheism "hard to wrap my head around".