Ever want to eat at a meth kingpin's fast food restaurant? If you've ever seen Breaking Bad, your answer is, "Yes, of course." Your dream may become a reality! People who aren't meth kingpins are looking in to making Los Pollos Hermanos, Gus Fring's (Giancarlo Esposito) restaurant chain from Breaking Bad, a real thing!
"Believe it or not...there is talk of a Pollos Hermanos becoming a real restaurant. This is not an idea that I generated personally," Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan said in a Reddit AMA. "But it's one that's been presented to me, through the good folks at Sony, and the idea came to them from a businessman who has an interest in doing just that. Speaking for myself, I'd love to see that happen!"
Speaking for everybody in the world, we would also like to see that happen! It would serve blue rock candy, right? Right. What about pizzas for throwing? Well...maybe not that. Gilligan recently spoke out about that, asking fans to stop throwing pizza on the rough of the home that served as the exterior for Walter White's (Bryan Cranston) TV house.
"I never anticipated that the pizza-throwing scene would be one of the 'non-submergible' moments of Breaking Bad. None of us did. It seemed like a fun thing to include in the episode at the time, but none of the writers of the series thought it would take on a life of its own," Gilligan said. "Thank you for asking that question, because it once again gives me the opportunity to say: for any of the folks who wanted to throw pizza on the roof of the White house, it's very unfair to the sweet lady that lives there. Please, please do NOT do it. If you want the photo of a pizza on the White house roof: Photoshop it!!! That's the way to do it in this day in age. You can have any size pizza, and it won't risk this very sweet lady breaking her back getting her ladder out and climbing up to clean pizza off her roof."
Stop throwing pizza. Just go buy chicken from the fictional restaurant that might become a real thing.
Gilligan is back in New Mexico thanks to Better Caul Saul, the Breaking Bad prequel starring Bob Odenkirk as Jimmy McGill/Saul Goodman. Jonathan Banks, who played Breaking Bad favorite Mike Ehrmantraut, is a series regular and we've already seen a familiar face, Tuco (Raymond Cruz), show up. Will we see more? WILL WE SEE WALTER WHITE AND JESSE PINKMAN? Never say never.
"Anybody and everybody," Gilligan said when asked who else could show up. "The sky's the limit! That's the beauty of this format. The story takes place six years in the past, where all the Breaking Bad characters are alive and well, but that's not to promise that you'll see every character that we introduced in Breaking Bad. We're still feeling our way through Jimmy McGill's format, discovering how and why he becomes Saul Goodman—and in the process, there's any number of directions our story can take. So I couldn't really tell you even if I wanted to who will show up, or when. Better Call Saul is still very much a work in progress."
Better Call Saul has already been renewed for a season two. And if you're thinking his tease about the "sky" being the limit is referring to Skyler (Anna Gunn), well, you're not alone. Maybe Marie (Betsy Brandt) gets into some sticky-finger trouble and Skyler gets Jimmy to come to her rescue?