Vince Gilligan and Rhea Seehorn attend the AMC Summit at Public Hotel on June 20, 2018 in New York City.
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Television creator Vince Gilligan and actor Rhea Seehorn are reteaming after their stint on Better Call Saulon a ‘mild’ sci-fi collection for Apple TV+.
In a latest interview with Variety, Gilligan made some revelations about the idea and tenor of his new show. Though unfolding in Albuquerque, New Mexico — the setting of each Saul and 5 seasons of Breaking Bad — it would have “no crime, and no methamphetamine”. Gilligan is resuming the author’s room subsequent week and can start filming the collection this winter. The mission marks his return to the sci-fi style after The X Files and its spin-off The Lone Gunmen.
“I wouldn’t call this heavy science fiction, I would call it mild science fiction,” Gilligan was quoted as saying. “But it does have a sci-fi element to it, at its core. And there’s no crime, and no methamphetamine. It’s going to be fun and different.”
Seehorn’s character within the collection, Gilligan added, can even be vastly faraway from her position in Better Call Saul. “She’s playing a character who is not Kim Wexler, but hopefully people will roll with that. I’m nervous. It’ll be interesting to see how folks react to it.”
Asked to tease the plot, Gilligan divulged, “The world changes very abruptly in the first episode, and then it is quite different. It’s the modern world — the world we live in — but it changes very abruptly. And the consequences that that reaps hopefully provide drama for many, many episodes after that.”
Apple TV+ had first introduced the collection in 2022, with Gilligan hooked up as government producer and showrunner for a two-season order. Sony Pictures Television (additionally behind Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul) is producing the show.