According to Deadline, Breaking Bad writer revealed that Saul almost had different job during the spinoff series Better Call Saul. Writer for the series Peter Gould (Too Big to Fail, Hope Gap) recently shared on Bluesky an early draft of a Breaking Bad episode that showed the character of Saul working at Hot Topic during the self-titled spin-off series on AMC.
“Came across this page from an early draft of #BreakingBad’s penultimate episode. Cinnabon? Not just yet!” wrote Gould on Bluesky.
The full post by Gould is down below.
Came across this page from an early draft of #BreakingBad ‘s penultimate episode. Cinnabon? Not just yet!
— Peter Gould (@petergould.bsky.social) October 1, 2024 at 5:43 PM
Better Call Saul follows attorney Saul Goodman, played by Bob Odenkirk (Summer in Argyle, The Birthday Boys). Before he was Goodman representing high-end meth dealers like Walter White in Breaking Bad, he was just Jimmy McGill, a small-time attorney hustling to make a name for himself.
As per Deadline, In the series, there is a call back to Breaking Bad, in which Walter White and Saul talk about Cinnabon. “If I’m lucky, a month from now, best case scenario, I’m managing a Cinnabon in Omaha,” Saul tells Walter White, played by Bryan Cranston (Malcom in The Middle), in the 2013 episode “Granite State.”
After sharing the early script, Gould explained why they didn’t move forward with Saul working at Hot Topic. “In fact, we found out that Hot Topic was carrying #BreakingBad stuff and we didn’t want to make it look like a cheap promo,” he wrote in a follow-up post. “So Cinnabon it was! And they had no idea about it until the episode aired.”
Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul are both available to stream on Netflix.