Vince Gilligan has addressed whether or not characters from the Breaking Dangerous universe would possibly ever present up in his new sequence Pluribus. Already starring Higher Name Saul‘s Rhea Seehorn, Pluribus follows Carol, who passionately resists a brand new paradigm when a mysterious transmission from house takes over the minds of practically everybody else on the planet, making them docile and glad.
Pluribus is a wholly totally different style from the crime saga of Breaking Dangerous, which by no means delves into any supernatural or sci-fi ideas. Pluribus, in distinction, hinges on one thing extraterrestrial performing in a seemingly inconceivable manner. Nonetheless, the brand new sequence is ready in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the place Carol’s house is, although she travels to different areas.
As Breaking Dangerous and later Higher Name Saul each happen on this metropolis, Pluribus feels much more like a religious successor to Gilligan’s career-defining franchise, regardless that it’s evidently a wholly separate story. Even so, in a current interview on The Wealthy Eisen Present, Gilligan appeared open to together with a few of the Breaking Dangerous actors, perhaps as a model of their previous characters, in Pluribus.
Mentioning the shared setting with Breaking Dangerous and Higher Name Saul, Eisen requested, “Is there any chance that we run into any survivors of these reveals in Pluribus? The place they’re a part of the hive […].” Gilligan responded: “We’d have some cameos. I do not know if it is…a bit, we’d have a couple of Easter eggs to throw your manner. However I truly was resistant about setting it in Albuquerque.”
The manufacturing did occur there as a result of Gilligan loves working with a selected crew. “However I kinda resisted [having the in-story setting be Albuquerque] as a result of I assumed it could confuse individuals.” Gilligan does apparently need Pluribus to be its personal challenge, however might doubtlessly characteristic a few of his previous collaborators, enjoying a personality that alludes to their Breaking Dangerous position with out affecting the brand new story.
If such a cameo needed to counsel that it’s not less than potential for Carol to run throughout that character as a result of they’re nonetheless alive as of the top of the Breaking Dangerous franchise, the survivors embrace Seehorn’s personal Kim Wexler, Saul Goodman (Bob Odenkirk), Skyler White (Anna Gunn), and Marie Schrader (Betsy Brandt). Presumably, they’re all part of the brand new hive thoughts of this peaceable world.
Moreover, a few of the Breaking Dangerous forged members already featured in a Pluribus trailer, as a few of the individuals who seem on tv and inform Carol they solely wish to make her glad. Included on this teaser are Bryan Cranston, Aaron Paul, Jonathan Banks, and Giancarlo Esposito (whose characters are all lifeless or far-off from Albuquerque within the Breaking Dangerous universe).
If actors or different Easter eggs from Breaking Dangerous make their manner into Pluribus, it is going to in all probability be in such a manner that the brand new present is not beholden to the story of its predecessor. Nonetheless, it nonetheless may very well be an exciting inclusion for Gilligan’s greatest followers.
- Launch Date
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November 6, 2025
- Community
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Apple TV
- Administrators
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Adam Bernstein, Zetna Fuentes, Melissa Bernstein
- Writers
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Ariel Levine