Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul creator Vince Gilligan has revealed that he pitched a game collaboration between the hit show and Grand Theft Auto.
Unfortunately, gamers who love the Breaking Bad series shouldn’t get their hopes up too high, as Gilligan said his idea of a Grand Theft Auto game that’s set in Walter White’s world of Albuquerque wasn’t picked up.
“I’m not much of a video game player, but how can you not know Grand Theft Auto,” the creator said in a recent interview on the Inside the Gilliverse podcast. “I remember saying to the guys, that are off running Apple now, who said yes originally to Breaking Bad, ‘Who owns Grand Theft Auto? Can’t you have a module, can there be a Breaking Bad [game]?’ [It] still makes sense to me! That never came to fruition.”
Gilligan told the hosts that there has been multiple attempts to produce a Breaking Bad game, but the majority end up flopping somewhere along the line.
“There have been quite a few attempts at video games, some of them kind of made it to market. We tried to do a VR experience with the Sony PlayStation VR headset. We did a mobile game that lasted for a little while.”
Gilligan continued, “Jen Caroll [a producer and writer on Breaking Bad], she put a lot of effort and a lot of energy and a lot of talent into writing three of four different stories for three or four different video games, including the VR thing. There was a lot of people hours poured into that and it’s just that, making a video game is damn hard. What little I learned about it through this process, it literally takes years and millions of dollars. It never quite came to fruition, it’s a shame.”
Watch the interview here:
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