Breaking Bad extremely playful on set, with Aaron Paul describing him as "a kid trapped in a man's body". Gilligan originally intended for Aaron Paul's character, Jesse Pinkman, to be killed at the end of "Breaking Bad"s first season in a botched drug deal as a plot device to plague Walter White with guilt. However, Gilligan said by the second episode of the season, he was so impressed with Paul's performance that "it became pretty clear early on that would be a huge, colossal mistake, to kill off Jesse". Donna Nelson, a professor of organic chemistry at the University of Oklahoma, checked
Breaking Bad The comic "recaps the first four-and-a-half seasons of Walter White's descent from mild-mannered chemistry teacher to drug kingpin". In October 2013, New York composer Sung Jin Hong announced his intentions to create an opera inspired by the "Breaking Bad" episode "Ozymandias". Rumors of a possible "Breaking Bad" film, under the working title "Greenbrier", had arisen in 2018. A stand-alone film project was officially announced in November 2018; the film, written by Gilligan and produced through Sony Television, would be set in the "Breaking Bad" universe. According to the New Mexico Film Office, they had approved production for "Greenbrier" in and