Breaking Bad

[Jeremy Blackman]

^ Seconded.

E: I am generally known for epic pagebreaks.

[Fernando]

Imagine a better world in which this Breaking Bad RPG exists

[Brando]

The Story of Breaking Bad told by it's prologues. Somebody strung together all the opening scenes of Breaking Bad.

http://blogs.indiewire.com/pressplay/sheila-omalley-breaking-bad

[polkablues]

Keep in mind this is an actor on the show and not AMC themselves, but Bryan Cranston has stated on Twitter that Breaking Bad will be back starting in JULY.

https://twitter.com/#!/BryanCranston/status/176468630500941824

[Jeremy Blackman]

Very nice! And it looks like there haven't been any conflicting reports or denials yet, so that looks likely. Sooner than I expected.

[ono]

https://twitter.com/#!/aaronpaul_8/status/181101571369738240

Spoilers.  A spec or the real deal?  You decide.
http://redsharkinteractive.com/trkdlx17/nejtcnuk723/page1.html

[Jeremy Blackman]

I definitely can't bring myself to read spoilers, but Aaron Paul's tweet is really promising. Sounds like the writers are still on top of their game.

The show's greatest strength is the amount of time they spend in the writer's room, and how much effort goes into making things unconventional and unpredictable. (Just read this thread for a full list of our failed predictions.)

[Reel]

I need to get the first four seasons under my belt again so I can discuss this with you mofos. This will be the first season I follow along week to week, and I expect it to be the best TV viewing experience since I first saw 'The Corner'

[Brando]

https://twitter.com/#!/aaronpaul_8/status/181101571369738240

Spolier

I think he posted later that the opening prologue of the first episode is crazier than someone getting their head blown off referring to Gus' death. http://www.digitalspy.com/tv/s166/breaking-bad/news/a372395/breaking-bad-season-five-will-air-in-july-says-aaron-paul.html That's the link that I saw about the tweet.

Spoilers.  A spec or the real deal?  You decide.
http://redsharkinteractive.com/trkdlx17/nejtcnuk723/page1.html

There was a script floating around last year that was thought to be the first episode of season four but turned out  to be a spec. The first give away is that it looks like a native file. I have a few actual BB script files and they're scanned from a hard copy. The writing is a dead give away. Although I only read the first couple of pages, it's really boring for the opening of the final season of a show that is anything but boring. Here I'll post the first few paragraphs of season 3 episode 1 of BB written by Gilligan and you can see how much the writing is different.

TEASER

BLUE SKY Fills frame.

A deep, polarizer blue with fluffy white clouds
(hopefully), it's the kind of sky planes sometimes fall from.
We TILT DOWN from it to find...

EXT. MEXICAN DESERT - DAY
This isn't a border town, but farther south. There's nothing
in the way of pavement or sidewalks -- just two red dirt
roads that cross in the middle of nowhere, littered on both
sides by old adobe and haphazard shanties.

It's too hot to do much of anything. A few scrawny chickens
hunt and peck. A few RESIDENTS brave the midday sun... but
we make out OTHERS in silhouette, sitting in the shade of
porches and such, minding their own business.

This town has a kind of Old West feel. It might put us in
mind of the opening to "The Wild Bunch." All is quiet. No
activity of note. Not until...

... An OLD MEXICAN MAN comes crawling on his belly.
What a face. If Fellini were alive and directing spaghetti
westerns, this is a face he'd cast. With skin tanned to the
hue of a well-oiled catcher's mitt and wrinkles deep enough
to hide M&Ms, this man is somewhere between seventy and three
hundred years old. Here he comes, making his way on knees
and elbows padded with a filthy swaddling of tied-on RAGS.

[Jeremy Blackman]

That's so evocative. Where might one find these Breaking Bad scripts?

[©brad]

Vince is a great scriptwriter. Jeremy you should read the pilot script it's easily available with a google search and most awesome.

[Brando]

That's so evocative. Where might one find these Breaking Bad scripts?

http://sites.google.com/site/tvwriting/

This is where I find a lot of scripts for television shows.  The guy keeps it updated and adds new tv scripts every few weeks or so.  He mostly adds pilot scripts for the new shows of the season but ever so often adds a script for something like Breaking Bad. They're not the transcripts you find at other sites where a fan just transcribes a show. He has four Breaking Bad scripts including the pilot. Also has the pilot or more of shows like Dexter, Californication, Freaks and Geeks, The Walking Dead, Mad Men etc... Also has a few Lost scripts including the final two episodes.

He doesn't have any scripts for HBO shows. If you read the home page, I bet he did have some but was threatened with a lawsuit.  I can see the litigious Time Warner having a problem with some guy posting their scripts. I do have some scripts for HBO shows.  I have a few for Deadwood, pilot for Game of Thrones, and a few for the wire including the it's bible/pitch. I found all these online through google. I'm positive you could google Game of Thrones pilot to find it simple.  Not sure how easy the others are since it's been a while since i've searched.

[Jeremy Blackman]

Excellent, thanks.

[Jeremy Blackman]

Ugh!

Bryan Cranston says Breaking Bad will split its final season in half

http://www.avclub.com/articles/bryan-cranston-says-breaking-bad-will-split-its-fi,72075/?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=feeds&utm_source=avclub_rss_daily

AMC has so far not made any official comment on the date of Breaking Bad's return or the plan for its final 16 episodes, but Bryan Cranston, mad with absolute Cranston, has once again gleefully gone rogue. "We're splitting it," Cranston tells Entertainment Weekly of the final season. "We're going to shoot the first eight, then take a four-month production break, then the rest will air next year." As reported earlier, Cranston already told the Twitter world that the show would debut its fifth season in July—an unofficial return date still, but a defiantly Cranstoned return date. The network will likely make a more definite announcement soon, though as of now it's less certain about Cranston's suggested four-month production break, calling it only "one scenario." But those earlier rumors regarding spreading out the final chapters of Breaking Bad seem to be all but confirmed now, which means Walter White will continue to wreak well-intentioned havoc through 2013.

[ono]

This... was already known a long time ago.  O_o