Ryan Scott of MovieWeb is just one of many writers that has been trying to make sense of the tweets from Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul featuring identical donkeys standing upon some undisclosed spot in the desert. Fans of the hit show Breaking Bad though are already drawing their own conclusions no matter which theories might be accurate and which need some work. For a while now we’ve been hearing rumors of a Breaking Bad movie but we haven’t seen anything. Perhaps this is indicating that it could finally be coming, and we could be seeing some very familiar faces. The idea that the movie could be a sequel to the show is already blowing peoples’ minds since of course Walt wouldn’t be able to show up since he died in the final episode, but given that it would be focusing on Jesse and his life after the horrors he went through it stands to reason that his demons would be more than a little vengeful and his memories would be set on full tilt when it came to the torment scale.
What this means of course is that Cranston would be able to come back as the occasional flashback or memory that Jesse recalls and could either be helpful or harmful depending on Jesse’s given mood. Sophie Lewis of CBS News even managed to discover that Cranston would definitely revisit the role if given leave to do so. While he didn’t really say that he was going to, the implication for many people seems to be that Cranston will be making his way into the movie at some point. The fact that Jesse is such a tormented individual and has been for a good part of the show would indicate that the fallout of finally being freed from the nightmare would leave him in a state where he couldn’t help but see those that had passed on long before his liberation, no doubt as ghosts brought on by a fever dream, but also as memories that are his mind’s way of torturing him for the things he’s done and inviting more trauma upon him as a result. Whether this is going to take place right after the events of the show or perhaps a while after is hard to say since those in charge are currently keeping things close to the vest and giving out next to nothing.
Ben Allen of RadioTimes seems to allude to the idea that this will take place years after the incidents that saw Jesse freed and Walt finally sent to meet his maker. That would make sense really as it would indicate that despite being well removed from the drug trade and a life that might have ended up killing him, Jesse is still haunted by the images of what went down during the show. One has to remember that no matter how much he tried to justify things, or how badly he wanted out at times, Jesse did manage to get himself stuck right in the midst of it and he did a bit of dirt now and then as well. It’s funny in a way how he was the supposedly hardened criminal when the show started and by the time it was ending he was the guy that just wanted out. Along with Walter he went in so deep when it came to the drug trade that it was a miracle he didn’t get the chop a few times. But surprisingly Jesse was a much more resolute character than many people might have given him credit for, especially given that Walt truly became the demon after a while and the guy that everyone knew to fear, or to hate. Jesse was a guy that throughout the first couple of seasons a lot of people still felt one way or another about since he made poor decisions a lot of the time but he was still useful so keeping him around made sense.
In the movie though it almost seems as though having him take on a straight, no-nonsense job that works him throughout the day and then leaves him too tired to do anything at night would be how the movie might develop. Or perhaps he drinks himself to sleep every night, is an alcoholic, and can’t bear to think about the past. There are so many different ways that this could play out based on the final episode and how it went down. Recall that Jesse was a captive, made to make the blue meth, and was shouting like a maniac when he was finally free. That doesn’t seem like something that a person would get over so easily, and it could very well be that the movie is a return to the life, if only to quell the demons that he likely still feels.
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