After weeks of knowing little about Vince Gilligan’s Breaking Bad follow-up, El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie, Netflix—as it tends to do a few weeks before a big premiere—has blitzed us with build-up for the next chapter of Jesse Pinkman’s story.
Following an ever-so-brief tease during the Emmys on Sunday night, Netflix released a full-length trailer for El Camino this morning. Even though it’s a two-minute montage of moments from the film with little dialogue, it gives us our best look at the potential storyline and tone of the movie so far.
First of all, Jesse looks like he’s aged about 27 years since the Breaking Bad finale, even though El Camino starts moments after he escapes in the last episode. And that’s both physically and mentally, scars covering his face and back, and a hell of a dissociated glare, reminiscent of the fallout from some of his greatest tragedies in Breaking Bad.
As expected, we get our first glimpse of returning Breaking Bad characters, notably Matt Jones’s Badger, and Charles Baker’s Skinny Pete. The trailer reiterates, too, that Jesse is in full-on run-from-the-cops mode, gun always in hand and TV news broadcasting his mugshot across Albuquerque. El Camino’s tone looks much darker than Breaking Bad (and Better Call Saul, especially), too, even literally—we see Jesse hiding in houses with blacked-out curtains.
We’ll see if Jesse is redeemed when El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie hits Netflix on October 11.
