El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (2019) on Netflix
TV-MA20192h 2mActionCrimeDrama
Jesse Pinkman escapes the neo-Nazi compound where he was held captive. The law is after him, and his friends Skinny Pete and Badger take him in and hide the El Camino.
- Netflix3.5/5
- IMDb7.3/10352,680 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes91%
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Plot summary
Jesse Pinkman drives away from the neo-Nazi compound in an El Camino. He reaches the Albuquerque home of his friends Skinny Pete and Badger, who feed him and give him a bed and stash the car out back. The morning news reports on the gang and on Jesse's part in it, and the friends tell him to shower and stay out of sight. When they call Old Joe to take the El Camino away, its LoJack switches on and police turn toward the house. Skinny Pete hands Jesse the keys to Badger's car, Badger drives south, and Skinny Pete stays with the El Camino to give the police a story. Jesse slips away as a line of squad cars heads for the house.
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Cast
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (2019)
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- Bryan Cranston flew to Albuquerque on a private jet and shot all his Walter White scenes for El Camino within 36 hours, during a two-day break from starring in the Broadway production Network. He returned to New York in time to perform that same evening.
- To keep El Camino secret, cast members wore large cloaks to hide their identities on the way to set, their characters were given code names, and when recognized in public they lied about working on the film.
- The Breaking Bad compound set had been torn down, so El Camino rebuilt it, reusing the original cooking vessel Walter White touched before his death; Gilligan left Walt's bloody handprint on the prop as an Easter egg despite the continuity error.
- Vince Gilligan wrote a letter from Jesse to Brock Cantillo to be read in voice-over over the final Alaska scene, but the Better Call Saul writers' room, including Peter Gould, felt it was better left to the audience's imagination, so it was cut and never recorded.
- The vacuum repair shop set had been sold and turned into a furniture store after Breaking Bad ended, so El Camino's crew rebuilt it from scratch and used a special buyer to find identical props at flea markets and salvage areas.
- Gilligan wanted to shoot the final Alaska scene on the Haines Highway, but it was too expensive, so the crew filmed outside Jackson, Wyoming, and used low cloud cover to hide the Grand Tetons instead of digitally removing them.
- Gilligan achieved the handheld look of El Camino's flashbacks by placing the large Alexa 65 camera on top of a truck airbag that could be inflated and deflated between two plastic plates.
