When first developing “Better Call Saul,” the prequel series to “Breaking Bad,” series creators Peter Gould and Vince Gilligan had a lot of exciting ideas. Before settling on the hour-long drama format that made their original series a success, there were conversations about shorter forms of storytelling to accentuate the comedic aspects of Bob Odenkirk’s star character, Saul Goodman.
Gilligan’s conversation with Rolling Stone in 2018 revealed one of the more famously known concepts:”When we first started concocting the idea of doing a spinoff, we literally thought it’d be a half-hour show.
It’d be something akin to ‘Dr.
Katz,’ where it’s Saul Goodman in his crazy office with the styrofoam columns, and he’s visited every week by a different stand-up comic.”In the end, “Better Call Saul” eventually nailed down a winning structure, but didn’t necessarily arrive at an overarching story until much later in the series.
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