Back in August, Deadline reported that Vince Gilligan was pitching his subsequent collection after Better Call Saul to round eight or 9 networks and platforms. Now, the upcoming present has discovered a house: It will stream on Apple TV+, which has already put in an order for 2 seasons. The still-untitled challenge will star Rhea Seehorn, who additionally performed Saul Goodman’s spouse Kim Wexler within the Breaking Bad prequel. “After fifteen years, I figured it was time to take a break from writing antiheroes… and who’s extra heroic than the sensible Rhea Seehorn?” Gilligan mentioned in an announcement.
While official particulars concerning the upcoming present have but to be launched, earlier experiences mentioned it is fully unrelated to the Breaking Bad universe. Deadline described it as one thing extra akin to The Twilight Zone in that will probably be set in our world however will bend actuality as we all know it. Gilligan might be closely concerned within the present’s creation as showrunner and government producer. And whereas the collection will not be related to Breaking Bad and its prequel, it can nonetheless be a part of Gilligan’s general take care of Sony Pictures Television.
In his assertion, Gilligan identified that the upcoming challenge will reunite him with Zack Van Amburg, Jamie Erlicht and Chris Parnell. All three was once Sony TV co-presidents who left the corporate to work at Apple. The tech large employed Van Amburg and Erlicht again in 2017 to provide its TV ambitions a lift by making them its video programming division leaders. They’re “the primary two individuals to say sure to Breaking Bad all these years in the past,” Gilligan mentioned. It’s nonetheless very early days for his subsequent challenge, although, so you could have to attend some time for a streaming date.