It’s been three years since followers final noticed Higher Name Saul’s Bob Odenkirk don the loud fits and crooked smile of Saul Goodman. But the character nonetheless looms massive in popular culture. Launched in Breaking Dangerous earlier than headlining his personal spinoff (which many argue surpassed the unique), Odenkirk reworked Saul from a comical sidekick into one in every of TV’s most unforgettable antiheroes. Now, the writer-turned-actor is opening up about what it could take for him to return to the Breaking Dangerous universe, and the way, in his eyes, that story may proceed.
Throughout an unique interview with TODAY, Bob Odenkirk revealed that if Saul had been to return, the story would want to mirror the place viewers final left him, serving an 86-year jail sentence. Nonetheless, for Odenkirk, the position holds a deep private significance, and he admits it wouldn’t take a lot to convey him again:
That half turned my life round, and I’ve given extra to that half than something I’ve accomplished. Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould created that present. They’re a few of the greatest writers who ever labored in TV. So in the event that they had been to consider one thing in that world, in fact I might do it.
The Saul sequence finale noticed Goodman lastly confess to his position in Walter White’s empire and the loss of life of Howard Hamlin, capping off years of transformation from Jimmy McGill, the struggling public defender, into Albuquerque’s most infamous felony lawyer. As Odenkirk sees it, persevering with Saul’s story means leaning into that consequence slightly than undoing it. He continued:
He’s not getting out [of prison]. If there’s one other Saul present, it takes place inside jail.
Hey, that’s not a horrible concept. There are a ton of sensible exhibits and films that happen in a jail. Additionally, if anybody may discover a strategy to make a compelling TV present set inside a jail wall, my cash could be on Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould.
On the identical time, Odenkirk is real looking concerning the probabilities of one other Higher Name Saul or Breaking Dangerous-related spinoff. Each Gilligan and Gould have moved on to new tasks, and the actor says he doesn’t count on them to circle again anytime quickly. He added:
However I don’t suppose so… I believe they’ve all moved on to some extra wonderful tasks that you simply’ll quickly see.
He’s not unsuitable. Gilligan is at present creating Pluribus, a psychological sci-fi drama for folk with an Apple TV+ subscription starring Higher Name Saul co-lead Rhea Seehorn. The sequence has already acquired a two-season order and is ready in a reimagined model of modern-day Albuquerque, promising to take Gilligan’s signature storytelling in a wholly new route. Bob Odenkirk has already had a sneak peek, past that unsettling teaser all of us obtained, and he has nothing however reward.
Bob Odenkirk isn’t slipping again into Saul’s Italian loafers, but he’s holding a lot busy. His motion sequel, No person 2, simply hit the 2025 film schedule and is at present in theaters. He’s persevering with to discover new roles that take him past the morally compromised males he’s turn out to be well-known for enjoying. On that word, each Breaking Dangerous and Higher Name Saul can be found to stream with a Netflix subscription.