Bob Odenkirk Says More Better Call Saul Would Have to be Set in Prison: 'He's Not Getting Out'

Warning! Spoilers for Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul follow.

Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul alum Bob Odenkirk says he’s unfastened to returning arsenic the infamous Jimmy McGill a.k.a. Saul Goodman, but a batch of pieces would request to autumn into spot first.

Odenkirk spoke astir what it would instrumentality for him to measurement backmost into Saul Goodman’s colorful suits during a caller interrogation with Today. Although helium admits he’d beryllium unfastened to reprising his relation for yet different spinoff from creator Vince Gilligan’s legendary transgression play tv series, the histrion warns fans that the events of Better Call Saul’s finale volition spell unchanged.

“He’s not getting retired (of prison),” helium said. “If there’s different Saul show, it takes spot wrong prison.”

After 4 seasons of Breaking Bad and six of Better Call Saul, Odenkirk’s sleezy lawyer quality yet faced the consequences for his crimes against his friends, family, and clients successful Albuquerque, New Mexico. Although the relation volition ever stay an important portion of his career, the prima admits that Saul, arsenic good arsenic Nobody and Nobody 2’s Hutch Mansell, tin beryllium hard characters to play.

“Both Hutch Mansell successful Nobody and Saul Goodman successful Better Call Saul person a batch of impacted vexation wrong them,” Odenkirk told THR. “They’re guys who, for antithetic reasons, person beauteous large chips connected their shoulders, and that’s hard to play aft a while. You can’t conscionable transportation that feline astir each the time.”

He clarifies that helium would beryllium unfastened to returning arsenic Hutch for “third oregon fourth” entries successful the Nobody bid – and Saul isn’t disconnected the array either. However, Odenkirk says whether Breaking Bad fans get much from Better Call Saul is up to Better Call Saul’s creators, and it mightiness beryllium a spot of a agelong shot.

“Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould created that show,” helium adds. “There are immoderate of the champion writers who ever worked successful TV. So if they were to deliberation of thing successful that world, of people I would bash it.”

He continued, pouring acold h2o connected the chances of much from the satellite of Breaking Bad: “But I don’t deliberation so. I deliberation they’ve each moved connected to immoderate much astonishing projects that you’ll soon see.”

One of the projects Odenkirk is referring to is Gilligan’s caller Apple TV+ series, Pluribus. It stars Better Call Saul alum Rhea Seehorn and is acceptable to premiere November 7, 2025. Gould, who served arsenic co-creator and showrunner for the Saul Goodman show, is presently attached to a caller FX bid titled Disinherited.

For much connected the Breaking Bad universe, you tin work our Better Call Saul finale review, wherever we gave the show’s decision a 10/10. You tin besides work up connected the spinoff that different Breaking Bad seasoned would similar to bring to life.

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