#BREAKING BAD TV PILOT SCRIPT SERIES#

They said, 'We really love this, but at this point in time, if we buy this, we'll be fired.'

One great meeting - which was almost as good as the AMC meeting, even though it was a no - was with TNT. Gilligan: A lot of places, we never even bothered pitching to because we figured the big three networks were never going to buy a show about a guy cooking crystal meth. It was one of those scripts that you're like, 'Oh my god, this is great writing, this is entertaining.' This is exactly the type of thing we were looking for. And then of course you read the pilot and you begin to see that this is something very, very special. That's what I thought when it was first pitched to me. It was kind of a depressing story about a drug that has absolutely no redeeming qualities whatsoever. Stew Lyons (unit production manager): It didn't sound very likely to be a success. ( Aaron Paul and Anna Gunn declined to participate in this oral history.) Ten years later, these are recollections from the cast, crew and producers, in their own words, of what it was like to make the pilot from start to finish, and all the many bumps along the way. The story of Breaking Bad is a story about a group of people having faith in a project they believed in on an artistic level, while realizing they were trying to do something that had never been done on television before. But there was more than a fair amount of talent and creative vision at play as well.

#BREAKING BAD TV PILOT SCRIPT SERIES#

It's true that the launch of Breaking Bad was plagued by mishaps that turned into blessings, and in a lot of instances, those 'Plan B's allowed the show to morph into the iconic series it became. Still, that might be selling it short just a tad. 'I just feel like there was an awful lot of luck involved, a lot of good timing.' 'It was just fortuitous happenstance a lot of the time that got us through,' creator Vince Gilligan insists of his multiple Emmy and Peabody award-winning show. We'll all be lucky to still have our jobs when this is over.' As one executive put it in a preproduction phone call, 'We're making a series about a guy who sells crystal meth. When AMC's Breaking Badwas being developed, it had all the cards stacked against it.

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