Schnauz reasoned that Breaking Bad essentially focused on Walter White's story, whereas the film and its title should be unique to reflect that they centered on Jesse Pinkman. Gilligan agreed and eventually settled on the title El Camino, referring to the car Jesse drives away with in "Felina".
By the end, Ed sets Jesse on his path to Alaska after all, and with a new identity: “Good luck, Mr. Driscoll,” Ed says.
26) The Nazis fail to produce drugs of Jesse and Walt quality, so their international distributor Lydia (Laura Fraser) has been freaking out. Which is very bad news for Jesse: After they let Walt go, they literally cage Jesse up for months and force him to make Heisenberg-level meth.
El Camino is Spanish for 'the way'.
And, just before the film's close, El Camino delved back in time for the return of the show's central character: Walter White, the chemistry-teacher-turned-drugs-baron portrayed by Bryan Cranston. However, the man we saw in flashback is far from the one portrayed in the Breaking Bad finale.
Indeed, Todd looks different in El Camino because several years have passed since Breaking Bad. At the time of filming Breaking Bad's final episode, "Felina," Plemons was 24, but he was 30 by the time he filmed El Camino — and was clearly older and heavier than he was in the series.
5. What about the Whites? So many familiar faces from Breaking Bad show up in El Camino, but there are key absences. Among the most important characters who sit out of the film: Skyler (Anna Gunn), Flynn (RJ Mitte) and baby Holly, not to mention Marie (Betsy Brandt), the family Walter left behind.
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Narrator: To dispose of Todd's El Camino, Jesse calls on Old Joe, the lovable scrapyard owner who once helped Walt and Jesse destroy their RV. Joe reminisces about the magnet scheme from the season five premiere, when he helped Jesse use a giant magnet to destroy Gus Fring's laptop.
The car that Jesse drives off in at the end of Breaking Bad is a Chevrolet El Camino. “El Camino” means “the path” in Spanish and this movie talks about Jesse's path and the course his life takes after the events of Breaking Bad.
Walter appears in one scene in El Camino. It's a flashback that harkens back to season 2 of the show, when Walter and Jesse had managed to MacGyver a boost to their RV car battery after a huge-quantity cook. In El Camino, Walt and Jesse meet up the next morning in a dingy motel and grab something to eat.
Like Bryan Cranston's Walter White and Jonathan Banks' Mike Ehrmantraut, Todd is brought back from the dead via flashbacks by Breaking Bad creator and El Camino writer-director Vince Gilligan.
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie confirms the series' biggest, most sadistic, villain isn't Walter White; it's the mild-mannered Todd Alquist.
Hank Schrader: Dead
Every moment of the episode "Ozymandias" is indelibly lodged in the brain of every Breaking Bad fan alive, so there's really no ambiguity here. RIP, Hank.
The campaign saw the return of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul character Huell Babineaux, with Lavell Crawford reprising the role.
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He hands Ed a final letter to one individual and, as Jesse drives away, we see who it's addressed to: Brock Cantillo. Breaking Bad fans will remember that Brock, played in the series by Ian Posada, is the young child of Jesse's girlfriend Andrea (Emily Rios), who is murdered in cold blood by Todd (Jesse Plemons).
The audience never learns the contents of Jesse's letter to Brock, though it's implied that it's an attempt at explaining/apologizing/making amends for all the evil that Jesse unwillingly brought into Brock's life. “That letter to Brock was the very first thing that Vince wrote when writing this script,” Paul notes.
Gus Fring
As the biggest cameos in El Camino proved, being dead didn't prevent a character from making an appearance, but we still didn't get a flashback from Gustavo Fring (Giancarlo Esposito).
Coming to terms with his impending death, Walt tied up loose ends before ambushing Jack's compound. He was mortally wounded in the process, but the event allowed Jesse to break free. Seeing as El Camino picked up moments after Breaking Bad's final episode, Jesse was still 25.
At the end of El Camino, Jesse had more than $230k in cash and a 1988 Toyota Land Cruiser (the movie is set in 2010). When Skinny Pete asks Jesse if he has any cash, Jesse says no. He and Badger then give Jesse approximately $8,000 in cash.
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“They gave me cortisone and I puffed up and gained weight. Now I'm better, thank God.” Though she declined to disclose further details as to what she suffered from, the now healthy actress added, “I'm doing fine, thankfully. I'm feeling really good.”
When her life fell apart and Walt disappeared, Skyler lost her assets and moved in with her kids in a small apartment with a job as a taxi dispatcher. It was revealed that her sister, Marie, reached out for a truce, so it's likely that the two reconnected shortly after the series finale.
Brock Cantillo, the son of Jesse's murdered girlfriend Andrea, doesn't appear in El Camino, but his presence is felt in a huge way during its closing scenes. As Jesse prepares to start a new life courtesy of Ed the Disappearer, he takes time to say goodbye to just one person, handing Ed a letter to be given to Brock.