10 Ways Breaking Bad Was Almost Completely Different
10. It Almost Never Happened
The next time you think youve come up with a great idea for a movie or TV show, you might want to run through a mental checklist of whats already out there first; theres a good chance your time-travelling killer cyborgs concept already exists in some form or other. Then again, if Breaking Bads chief architect had heeded this advice, then no one would be here celebrating his efforts. When a phone conversation between Vince Gilligan and fellow unemployed writer Thomas Schnauz devolved into riffing on the idea of putting a meth lab in the back of an RV to make some quick cash, the idea stuck with Gilligan and Walter White sprang, almost fully formed, into existence. Gilligan spent several weeks developing his brilliant, original concept about a cash-strapped suburbanite entering the drug trade, polishing his pitch into shape and lining up a meeting at a prestigious cable network. During said meeting, he barely got through five minutes before the president commented: This sounds a lot like Weeds. Of course, Gilligan had never heard of the relatively new show about a suburban widow whose cash crisis prompts her to start dealing marijuana. The writer and showrunner has since remarked: If I had known of Weeds weeks or even days prior to that meeting, its likely I wouldnt have had the will to go on, and Breaking Bad almost ended before it even began. So maybe you should crack on with that story about a teenager in a dystopian future or something.
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