

He finds a little piece of his soul again. I think Jimmy rediscovers himself and gets back to his roots.

I’d like to believe that, unlike “Breaking Bad,” “Better Call Saul” has a somewhat happy ending. That it was a “victory” for Walt to die on his own terms and provide for his family. You once said that you considered the ending of “Breaking Bad” to be, in some ways, a triumphant one. A certified free-fall skydiver, as well as a helicopter pilot, he claims that it’s easier “to jump out of an airplane than talk to a stranger.” But, in the course of two phone calls-one before the show’s final episode and one just after-he spoke about a variety of topics, including the origins of “Better Call Saul,” his love for “The Rockford Files,” and (spoilers alert!) the much anticipated ending to a franchise that Anthony Hopkins once compared to a “great Jacobean, Shakespearian or Greek Tragedy.” Our conversation has been edited for clarity. “Better Call Saul” ended earlier this month, completing a fourteen-year journey for Gilligan. Gilligan followed it with “Better Call Saul,” which tells another story of transformation: how an Albuquerque lawyer named Jimmy McGill (Bob Odenkirk) becomes Saul Goodman, White’s sly, charismatic, shape-shifting accomplice.

The result, “Breaking Bad,” turned Walter White into a cultural icon.
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After the series ended, in 2002, Gilligan was “in the weeds for a bit,” before famously persuading AMC to produce a show about a middle-aged, self-deluded schlump who somehow transforms himself from Mr.
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Gilligan’s big break came in 1994, after years of freelancing for TV shows, when he sold a script to “The X-Files.” He eventually wrote thirty episodes, and became an executive producer.
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The work so impressed the judge, Mark Johnson, who produced “Rain Man,” that he called Gilligan “the most imaginative writer I’ve ever read.” The script became a movie starring Drew Barrymore, and Johnson would go on to executive-produce “Breaking Bad” and “Better Call Saul.” in film production, he submitted a script called “Home Fries” to a screenwriting competition. He went to college at N.Y.U., and soon after graduating, in 1989, with a B.F.A. Gilligan was born in Richmond, Virginia, and grew up shooting sci-fi films on a Super 8 camera. “It’s like watching ‘No Country for Old Men’ crossbred with the malevolent spirit of the original ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre,’ ” Stephen King once wrote. The universe of “ Breaking Bad” and “ Better Call Saul,” two of the century’s most highly acclaimed shows, is a place where men become monsters. It’s difficult to imagine the fifty-five-year-old Vince Gilligan-soft-spoken, gracious, and exceedingly modest-lasting too long in the violent, bleached-out New Mexico that he put onscreen. It takes a decent man to create a cruel world.
