According to ScreenRant, PopCorners decided to go all out for their Super Bowl commercial this year. Featuring Bryan Cranston (Malcolm in the Middle, Kung Fu Panda 3, Your Honor) reprising his role of Walter White to build a tasty snack empire similar to his Blue Sky Methylamine operation in the extremely successful show Breaking Bad. The ad featured Bryan Cranston, reprising his role of Walter White to build a tasty snack empire similar to his Blue Sky Methylamine operation in the extremely successful show, Breaking Bad.
The commercial also includes Cranston’s co-star Aaron Paul (BoJack Horseman, Need for Speed, Westworld) reprising his role of the used-to-be, teenage junkie who knows his way around the drug selling business, Jesse Pinkman. The multi-million dollar commercial also includes character drug lord and hyperactive personality Tuco Salamanca, played by Raymond Cruz (The Curse of La Llorona, Cleveland Abduction, The Closer), who agrees to partner with Jesse and Walter to create a PopCorner’s kingdom.
The extended version of PopCorners Super Bowl Ad shows Bryan Cranston as the kingpin Walter White sitting atop his air-popped throne parodying the poster for the fifth and final season of Breaking Bad. Image seen below.
AMC’s original series Breaking Bad follows high school chemistry teacher, Walter White, and his regression into organized crime due to his predicted lifetime drastically shortening due to intense cancer labeled as “inoperable stage 3A adenocarcinoma”. Because of the high expense of chemotherapy and wanting to send his two children to college, he teams up with dropout and druggie Jesse Pinkman and puts his chemistry skills to use creating ultra-pure methylamine commonly known as crystal meth. White corners the Albuquerque market and becomes a legend in the business, eventually adopting the mantle of “Heisenberg” leading to further corruption and despair; not great for Walt and Jesse but always great to watch.
Since Breaking Bad ended in 2013, Paul and Cranston have reposed their roles of Walt and Jesse in other AMC projects in the Breaking Bad universe such as Netflix’s El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie and Better Call Saul; a spin-off series following Saul Goodman, the shifty lawyer that helped Walt and Jesse run their drug ring on several occasions played by Bob Odenkirk (Nobody, The Incredibles 2, Seinfeld).