After providing us back-to-back extremely crucial dramas with Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, Vince Gilligan has actually now signed with Apple television+. The showrunner set to produce a grounded category drama, starring Rhea Seehorn, who starred and directed a few of the episodes of Better Call Saul
While information are still sporadic, it was validated that Apple has actually currently commissioned a two-season, straight-to-series order for its streaming platform. According to a report by Deadline, Gilligan’s script was searched the block and had high need from around 8 to 9 networks. The Breaking Bad showrunner was looking for a spending plan of $135 million-$15 million an episode, which Apple now appears to have actually fulfilled.
While the quantity is not in the series of Amazon Prime Video’s $20 M-plus-an-episode variety for LOTR or HBO’s The House of the Dragon, it definitely falls in the premium drama classification. While discussing his upcoming job, Gilligan stated, “After 15 years, I figured it was time to take a break from composing antiheroes … and who’s more brave than the dazzling Rhea Seehorn? It’s long previous time she had her program, and I feel fortunate to get to deal with it with her.”
Gilligan will work as showrunner and executive manufacturer on the program, while Sony Pictures will supervise the job. What stays to be seen is if Seehorn will go back to the director’s chair again.
As pointed out previously, Gilligan has actually declined to dispense any information. Reports declare that the brand-new series will be a departure from the world of drugs and criminal offense and will focus on Twilight Zone– esque styles. It is being referred to as “flexing truth and concentrating on individuals and checking out the human condition in an unanticipated, unexpected method”
The news does not come as a surprise thinking about Gilligan is a hot product in Hollywood today after back-to-back hits. His newest Better Call Saul, earning 46 Emmy elections to date, with 7 of them coming this year, consisting of a nod for Outstanding Drama Series. Remarkably the Bob Odenkirk drama still handled to end its run without a single Emmy win.