Universal Pictures has unveiled the official first trailer for the seventh film of the Fast and Furious franchise, Furious 7. Directed by James Wan (the Saw franchise, The Conjuring), Furious 7 is Paul Walker’s final F&F film. The cast also includes Vin Diesel, Dwayne Johnson, Michelle Rodriguez, Jordana Brewster, Tyrese Gibson, Chris “Ludacris” Bridges, Elsa Pataky, Lucas Black, Djimon Hounsou, Tony Jaa, Ronda Rousey, Nathalie Emmanuel, Kurt Russell, and Jason Statham.
Henry Zebrowski as Stu, Ben Feldman as Andrew, and Cristin Milioti as Zelda in ‘A to Z’ (Photo by Trae Patton/NBC)
Another romantic comedy just bit the dust. First it was Manhattan Love Story and now The Hollywood Reporter says A to Z starring Ben Feldman and Cristin Milioti is ending its first season run after 13 episodes. Also getting the hook is the raunchy comedy Bad Judge with Kate Walsh, according to THR.
NBC will leave both shows on its Thursday night schedule until they’ve exhausted their initial 13 episode orders.
A to Z has been sinking in its 9:30pm time slot after premiering to decent numbers. Bad Judge, which earned overall negative reviews from critics, has had slightly higher ratings but not high enough to generate additional episode orders.
Eric Bana (Photo by Richard Chavez / Showbiz Junkies)
Eric Bana has joined the cast of Special Correspondents, a comedy/drama co-starring Ricky Gervais. Gervais also wrote the script and will be directing the film, with Bron Studios and Unanimous Entertainment on board to co-produce.
Filming’s expected to get underway next spring, with the production scheduled to shoot in both New York City and Vancouver.
According to the official announcement, Bana will play “a struggling New York-based radio journalist whose arrogance and decadent lifestyle has hindered his career. With his job on the line, he fakes front-line war reports from the comfort of his hideout above a Spanish restaurant in the heart of Manhattan.”
Bana was most recently seen in Deliver Us From Evil and is working on The Finest Hours and The Secret Scripture. Gervais’ last film as a director was 2010’s Cemetery Junction with Matthew Goode and Ralph Fiennes.
Brad Meltzer and H2 want to know what’s in your attic. Meltzer’s new series Lost History debuts on October 31, 2014 at 10pm ET/11pm PT and explores historically significant items that have disappeared. The new series doesn’t just examine the hows and whys, it asks for viewers to help find these pieces of American history by submitting info at an online tip site. To make it even more enticing to get involved, there’s a $10,000 reward for information leading to their recovery.
Brad Meltzer’s Lost History makes history come alive, something Meltzer’s passionate about both on and off the show. “What we do as a culture is we start to say that history is a bunch of dates and facts that you memorize, and history is nothing like that,” explained Meltzer.
“That’s not what history is at all. What history is is a selection process and it chooses every single one of us, every single day. The only question is, do you hear the call? And to me, whatever it is that I’m working on, that’s the call. It’s my chance to share with people the greatest stories of all. That’s what history is to me, the greatest stories of all.”
Among the items spotlighted on the new series airing on H2 on Friday nights will be the Ground Zero flag, JFK’s brain, and the missing patent for the Wright Bros’ flying machine. And in a conference call in support of the show, Meltzer explained his approach to selecting the featured items and what viewers can expect when they tune in.
In addition to missing items, the series also showcases items that have been found. Why did you decide to include those items and details?
Brad Meltzer: “I think it really came from the idea of if you’re going to try and convince people that they can find it, you have to prove to them that’s true. That’s where we started. The original version of the show began when I was in the National Archives. They pointed out to me a tracking map from the Bay of Pigs was missing for years. They said, ‘You know, this was missing for years. Do you know how we found it?’ I said, ‘How?’ and they said, ‘JFK’s secretary had it. She had take it home with her and when she died, her family found it in the attic. That’s how we got it back.
I was like, ‘You’ve got to be kidding me.’ One, that it was gone – this important piece of history – and two, that it just gets found. And then I started making that list of all the things that are missing.
I can tell you that things are found in the attic; I can tell you that story. But every episode is actually set up where you get two things that are still missing but the middle story’s always how it’s been found. You see all the ways and they’re always found by regular people. Sometime’s it will be the FBI who helps and gets called in, of course. But it’s someone just keeping their eye open and saying, ‘I saw this thing.’
I think for anyone who’s watching the show, then you get to see your own power. You see that story and you’re like, ‘Wait, this isn’t just possible. It already happened. Man, we should start looking.'”
Will you be including important items from pop culture as well as pieces of America’s history?
Brad Meltzer: “Jack Kirby you better believe is on that list. The second episode is James Bond’s original Aston Martin. The one that was driven by Sean Connery in Goldfinger is missing. There were two of them. One of them was for exterior shots and one of them was driven by Sean Connery, and that one is missing. I love that. I actually wanted to put that story in the pilot because it was like, ‘I want to show people that we’re doing current stuff, not just old stuff.’ We already had a current one in there so we decided to mix it up.
We also do James Dean’s wrecked car. I’m trying to think from full pop culture…I don’t know if it’s going to be done or not but the Easy Rider motorcycles, Marlon Brandon – one of his Oscars, I mean there are so many things from pop culture that are in there. There’s one that I can’t say that is Superman related that I’m really hoping turns out to be what I hope it is.”
How did you figure out the tone of the show?
Brad Meltzer: “The tone of the show really came from my own outrage. I mean, when we started doing it, I came to History and pitched it to them as this wasn’t just going to be a TV show, it was going to be mission. It was discussing that these things are gone and no one knows about it, and here’s our chance to get it back. Everyone at first is surprised those things are missing but then when you start seeing how many things are missing, shock turns to outrage. Over and over as we kept doing the stories you’d find James Dean’s car at one point is hanging on some guy’s wall apparently.
First of all, if you have James Dean’s wrecked car on your wall, you need a new decorator. Right? But beyond that it’s just disgusting. History does not belong to just rich people who can afford take it for themselves. History belongs to all of us.
They said to me, ‘Brad, you should tell them how you feel.’ When we filmed the pilot I was a little nervous that they were going to say, ‘You know what? Tone it down. We want to do our History show in our normal way.’ But to H2’s credit, they really did say, ‘You know what? We think this is the way to get it back. There needs to be a call to action. Otherwise, no one is going to do anything.’ We’re not here just to entertain, we’re here to get these items returned.”
You focus on a couple of different items over the course one episode. Is there any one item you wish could have been an entire episode on its own?
Brad Meltzer: “That Ground Zero flag. It’s wild because we knew what we were doing when we did the story. We picked the story and we’re going to go do the story, but it wasn’t until we were actually filming it… I had flown into DC and I was there on the 9/11 anniversary this September. I was just emailing back and forth with my friends, with my neighbor whose wife went down on the Pentagon flight – she was a flight attendant, Michele Heidenberger.
It wasn’t until I was emailing him and I road past the Pentagon to where we filmed the pilot and as we started filming it, as we walked in we all looked at each other. I think it was that moment where all of us were shocked because we all know what the show is, and we all know we want to tell this story, but I think in that exact moment in time we realized, ‘Wait a minute. We could find this, and if we do we could bring peace to a lot of people.’ It isn’t just bring it back because we want it; it’s bring it back because it’s actually going to change someone’s emotional state. It’s going to bring them closure in a way. That was just one of those humbling moments where we started thinking of should this be the full episode. When I watched the first cut of it I said to them, ‘I could watch this story for an hour.’ It was that big and amazing of a story.
That’s the one for me that just really did it. It was one of those moments where I was watching a show that I know I had pitched and come up with and with all these amazing people we got it realized. I felt like I was watching it as a complete viewer. It’s just one of those ones you can’t take your eyes off of.”
What was one of the more surprising things that you were able to uncover?
Brad Meltzer: “We go searching for JKF’s brain. Let me say that again slowly. JFK’s brain is missing. It sounds like a bad 1950s sci-fi movie. ‘I stole JFK’s brain!’ At one point in time after the assassination of JFK, there was someone walking around Washington D.C. with a metal can that had the President’s actual brain in it. And you’d think that with autopsy and forensic study and all the things you would want to know about a man who gets hit in the head with a bullet that we would have done forensic studies on the brain itself and the government never did.
It’s one of those moments where when we were first looking for it, research is coming back and I’m thinking there’s no way this is true. When you see what gets pulled out, you’re not going to believe it. You’re going to watch it and feel like this can’t possibly be real. Not that I think anyone’s going to turn in a brain. That’s not what we want at the lost and found. But, man, the call to action there is someone at some point knows [about it].
We have the exact moment where we think it was gone. We want to know who did take it and why did they take it. When you see who the suspect is it’s pretty fascinating because it’s not one of those evil guy stroking his cat thinking I’m going to take this and it’s going to be a big, grand conspiracy. I think it was personally taken for the most human reason of all and it’s to protect a family member.”
How much time and research goes into each segment?
Brad Meltzer: “It’s months. Some are very obvious. We knew we wanted to do the 9/11 flag, we knew we’re doing Hitler’s personal photo album. I knew from the very start that we wanted to JFK’s brain because I knew that story. There are a couple stories I’ve had for years. I pitched this show two or three years ago, so that’s how long it’s been in the making. There are some items I knew for sure this is missing and we’ve got to get it back, and then there are others we kind of uncovered and looked into.
In a strange way what happens and what you see is that no one knows the story except for the people who live in that little world. In comic books we all know that Jack Kirby has missing artwork. Anyone outside the comic book world, they go, ‘Who is that? Who is Jack Kirby and what does that mean?’ The violin from the Titanic, the famous violin that was played…that wasn’t something that James Cameron made up. That was real and the guy who was playing the violin went down. They found his body but they never found his violin. But if you’re a Titanic obsessive fan in the very best way, you know that that’s one of the great items. That’s an item that was missing and then was later recovered.
What it really meant was kind of weaving through all these small worlds and in those worlds, people know very quickly what it is. If you’re a car person, you know James Dean’s car – that the wreckage has been missing. I was like everyone else, why would anyone ever take the wreckage of a car? There’s a whole story that goes along with it.
What takes the most time is navigating through each of those little worlds and finding the most important thing in it.”
Jake Gyllenhaal and Riz Ahmed star in ‘Nightcrawler’ (Photo by Chuck Zlotnick / Open Road Films)
“Will this be on television?” asks Louis Bloom (Jake Gyllenhaal). “Morning news. If it bleeds, it leads,” replies Joe Loder (Bill Paxton), head of a freelance camera crew who just finished filming a fiery crash on an LA highway in the dramatic thriller Nightcrawler.
Fascinated and inspired by what he witnessed Loder film, Louis decides to start his own freelance business shooting the news, covering car crashes, fires, murders, home invasions, and other chaos in the city. Hiring a homeless young man named Rick (Riz Ahmed) as his driver and navigator, Bloom sets out across Los Angeles at night with a police scanner and video camera to cover the biggest tragedies for a local television morning news team.
News Director Nina Romina (Rene Russo) appreciates his dedication and talented eye for capturing the blood-soaked, grisly realism of L.A. tragedies on camera and Bloom quickly becomes her number one freelancer, covering the biggest and bloodiest news stories for her morning newscasts. As Louis becomes more and more determined to be the best at what he does, the lines between simply covering the horrific stories and helping them become even more sensational blur and eventually disappear due to Bloom’s hunger to get to the story first and obtain coverage no other camera crew can capture.
Riveting and deeply disturbing, Nightcrawler is an intense and extremely dark journey into the madness and sensationalism that is ratings-driven television news. This is an exceptionally compelling film with a mesmerizing performance by Jake Gyllenhaal as Louis Bloom, a completely unethical, immoral, and despicable individual willing to do anything to improve his coverage of local tragedies for the morning news. It’s Gyllenhaal’s best performance of his career. From his wide-eyed stares to his body posture and the precise delivery of Bloom’s dialogue, the movie chronicles the rise of a sociopath to the top of his profession.
Rene Russo gives one of her finest performances in years as Nina, the past-her-prime news director who at first sees Louis as a talented up and coming freelancer but quickly realizes he’s the best at getting her the goriest and most intrusive ratings-winning camera coverage of horrific news stories. Nina’s both drawn to and at times repulsed by Bloom, and the scenes between Gyllenhaal and Russo sizzle with energy and sexual tension.
The production and direction of the film by Dan Gilroy is slick and flawless, capturing vividly the dark and scary side of L.A. at night. The script is rich with crisp dialogue and the action scenes of police chases and shoot-outs are thrilling.
Captivating and unsettling, Nightcrawler is an intense thriller that will have audience both fascinated and horrified by Bloom’s actions and will hopefully garner Gyllenhaal an Oscar nomination for a truly unforgettable performance.
Chloe Grace Moretz and Keira Knightley star in ‘Laggies’ (Photo Courtesy of A24)
We’re just starting to get to that point in the year when studios stop putting out mindless explosion fests and trickle in a few movies they think might garner critical acclaim. Films like Fury, Birdman, and Nightcrawler are all supposed to be in the wheelhouse of critics like myself. And while I enjoy a well-crafted cinematic experience, the movies that really keep me enamored with the industry are smaller and personal ones. Case in point, the new film from director Lynn Shelton, Laggies.
The film follows Megan (Keira Knightley) who is stuck in a rut and realizing that the circle of high school friends she’s remained a part of may not be the crowd for who she wants to be another ten years down the line. Her entire life is being determined by slow, undesired, and unmotivated momentum; whether it’s the looming marriage to her high school sweetheart, Anthony (Mark Webber), or the lack of career ambition. After a shameful discovery about her father (Jeff Garlin) exacerbates the increasingly claustrophobic idea of marriage, Megan finds a way to excuse herself from her own world for a week. She ends up crashing on the floor of Annika, a high school student (Chloë Grace Moretz) she knows only after being the random adult who bought her alcohol at a grocery store (the classic rite of passage for both underage minor and grown-up looking to pay things forward from their own experience).
The movie is confined to this week of self-discovery and the best elements of the movie are the themes of aimlessness, doubt, and realizing the value, or lack thereof, when it comes to holding onto friendships that grew apart long ago. Knightley has always done a good job of exuding melancholic reflection and she makes the character feel genuine. This is more impressive considering some of the cliché and unnecessary elements the screenplay brings to the table.
My only real complaints with the movie are an unnecessary romance between Megan and Annika’s father (Sam Rockwell) and how far Megan lets things go with Anthony considering what’s she’s been learning about herself. There seemed to be a few ways to avoid these pitfalls which were not taken, and perhaps most disappointing of all, these elements seemed to be more about pleasing a test audience than growing organically from the rest of the movie.
However, I’m willing to forgive those trite and sadly expected plot developments because the moments between Megan, Annika, and her friends are unexpectedly charming and lovely. Knightley and Moretz share a wonderful mother/sister-like chemistry and the depiction of high school students is well handled by Shelton and the cast. These are kids most of us should be able to recognize as ourselves, or our friends, at that age. Additionally, Shelton finds a way to make this unlikely friendship not feel as creepy as it probably should. On paper, this idea is a bit odd but it all makes sense on-screen.
So the $51 dollar question, is Laggies a film you should watch? Well, I think that if you are the type of person who likes more intimate character-driven films, especially the kind where the characters are trying to navigate the crossroads they find themselves at, then this is going to resonate with you. It’s definitely one of the few films of 2014 that I’ll be picking up on the home market eventually, as I can see myself re-watching it from time to time. It’s not going to win any major awards but I like it. And really, at the end of the day, there are films you “should” see and films that you want to see. This is the latter, and that’s perfectly fine with me.
GRADE: B
Laggies is rated R for language, some sexual material and teen partying.
Antonio Banderas, Tom Kenny, Clancy Brown, Rodger Bumpass, Bill Fagerbakke, Carolyn Lawrence, and Douglas Lawrence provide the voices of our favorite animated sea creatures in The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water directed by Paul Tibbitt from a script by Tibbitt, Stephen Hillenburg, Jonathan Aibel, and Glenn Berger. Paramount Pictures has just released a new trailer for the 2015 animated family comedy featuring SpongeBob heading out of the ocean and onto dry land for another huge adventure.
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water will open in theaters on February 6th, 2015.
Nicole Kidman in ‘Before I Go to Sleep’ (Photo credit: Laurie Sparham / Clarius Entertainment)
Remember Memento? How about 50 First Dates? Exploring the topic of repeated memory loss has been done before in feature films, but Before I Go to Sleep is the first of the lot to actually make the audience wish they’d suffered from the same ailment as the main character after sitting through a screening.
Before I Go to Sleep leaves you longing for short-term memory loss to wipe away the 90 minutes spent watching an R-rated clunker that’s a violent, brutal, and illogical mess, not to mention a complete waste of decent performances by its A-list cast.
If you can make it through the film without nodding off, consider yourself lucky (or over-caffeinated). Adapted from S.J. Watson’s novel by writer/director Roland Joffe, the story is a loosy-goosy, “let’s not follow any rules and what the heck, let’s just throw out all of the events leading up to the last half hour as if they didn’t exist” sort of drama. Before I Go to Sleep is the type of film you walk away from shaking your head and wondering why you stuck it out to the end. Then you realize you couldn’t leave early because you held out hope the film would redeem itself in those final minutes, which, of course, it doesn’t. Plus, the combo of Mark Strong and Colin Firth working against type…or maybe not or maybe they are…forced you into sticking it out to the bitter end.
The story revolves around Christine (Nicole Kidman) who wakes up every morning next to a man she doesn’t know (Colin Firth). Apparently, she was in an accident years earlier, which left her with the inability to create new memories and her thoughtful hubby, Ben, has been filling in her missing memories every morning via photos and post-it notes. She wakes up freaked out, spends the day trying to figure out who she is and how she got in this state, eats dinner with her school teacher husband, and then falls asleep.
Sleep, wake, freak out, understand, go back to sleep, forget everything, and repeat. Day after day, month after month, year after year.
But then into her life comes Dr. Nasch (Mark Strong), a neuro-psychologist who calls her each morning and has her convinced her husband is keeping secrets from her and hasn’t even told the true story about how she came to suffer from dissociative amnesia. Ben says it was a car crash while Dr. Nasch tells her the truth: she was savagely beaten and left for dead, naked in an industrial park near an airport. Why would Ben lie about this detail if he wasn’t somehow involved? And why does he continue to withhold key facts about her life before the accident?
Ben says he loves and cherishes her, and the fact he’s stuck around to repeat her story every day for years places a check mark in the “He’s a good guy and you should believe him” box. But Dr. Nasch is very convincing, urging her to try and recall the truth of what happened that fateful night and to secretly record what she finds out each day on a camera hidden away from Ben. What’s an amnesiac to do?
Of course I won’t give away who did what to whom, but suffice it to say the contrived third act is mind-bogglingly ridiculous. It treats the audience like idiots, wasting a compelling premise and fine performances with a wrap-up that feels like it took an entire day in the theater to get to but, in actuality, was only 90 minutes from the first frame.
A death march would outrace the pace of Before I Go to Sleep, and for some reason, writer/director Joffe is unable to make the lead character, Christine, the least bit sympathetic. Because we don’t care or relate to this woman who should evoke a protective response, the film flounders without a much-needed emotional attachment to hold onto. Plus, there’s the added bonus of Kidman’s Christine seeming to have forgotten the reason why people don’t go walking willy-nilly into a busy street. Why the repeated scenes of Christine nearly being hit by cars? It’s not to throw off the audience as the accidents would be her fault since she forgot to look both ways before walking out into a street.
This isn’t Memento, though you’d be excused for believing it was loosely based on that critically acclaimed film. It’s not even as entertaining as the Drew Barrymore/Adam Sandler romantic comedy, also about a woman who goes to bed each night with memories and wakes up each morning starting over from scratch. What Before I Go to Sleep is is a good cure for insomnia, and it’s not good for much else.
GRADE: D
Before I Go to Sleep is rated R for some brutal violence and language.
Jake Gyllenhaal delivers one of the best performances of his career in Nightcrawler, a dramatic thriller from writer/director Dan Gilroy. And in this video courtesy of Open Road Films, Gyllenhaal talks about being able to deliver Gilroy’s dialogue and how that was actually his favorite part of making Nightcrawler. Gyllenhaal also discussed the film’s social commentary and a specific scene in which he breaks a mirror.
The Plot:
Nightcrawler is a pulse-pounding thriller set in the nocturnal underbelly of contemporary Los Angeles. Jake Gyllenhaal stars as Lou Bloom, a driven young man desperate for work who discovers the high-speed world of L.A. crime journalism. Finding a group of freelance camera crews who film crashes, fires, murder and other mayhem, Lou muscles into the cut-throat, dangerous realm of nightcrawling — where each police siren wail equals a possible windfall and victims are converted into dollars and cents. Aided by Rene Russo as Nina, a veteran of the blood-sport that is local TV news, Lou blurs the line between observer and participant to become the star of his own story.
Vince Gilligan, RJ Mitte, and Anna Gunn from ‘Breaking Bad’ on ‘Talking Bad’ (Photo Credit: Jordin Althaus/AMC)
RJ Mitte’s been keeping busy since the end of the critically acclaimed series Breaking Bad, working on TV projects as well as film roles. But despite being busy in front of the camera as well as behind the scenes as a producer, he’s making time to work with charitable organizations, including being the spokesperson for the anti-bullying campaign #CutTheBull from Shriners Children’s Hospital. Mitte knows first-hand the effects of being bullied. As a kid, he suffered both verbal abuse and physical abuse to the point where he even had his hand broken, and now he’s determined to help people understand the importance of standing up against bullies. Mitte’s fully aware there’s no way to wipe out bullying completely, but he believes it’s important to address what can be done to help those who are the targets of bullying.
Mitte is the spokesperson for SAG, AFTRA, and Actors’ Equity “I AM PWD” (person with disability) and is a Celebrity Youth Ambassador for United Cerebral Palsy. He’s passionate about speaking out against bullying and in our exclusive interview, Mitte said he’s happy it’s now a topic of conversation in wider circles. “It’s great. I find that the amount of people speaking out is increasing and it will always increase, but you’ll always have bullies,” said Mitte. “I’m so happy more and more people are speaking out, and more and more people are standing up. Speaking out is one thing, but you need to stand up; you need to make a difference. You need to go out and show people that there are people with true kindness in the world, that there are people who want to make a difference in the lives of others. That’s the reason why I feel our message is a little bit different from other people’s message because it’s all on you. It’s all about looking at the world with a positive mindset. Bullying will not affect you. It will not change who you are and you cannot let other people shape you. You have to stand up because no one wants to be that first person, but if you are that first person standing up you can set the example for so many lives.”
Growing up as a person with a disability, Mitte was an easy target. And while he abhors violence, his Marine grandfather’s advice on fighting back left a lasting impression. “I don’t like to fight. I never fought but as soon as I stood up for myself and someone wanted to fight me, and I started saying, ‘Okay, let’s do this,’ as soon as I would say something like that, they would stop,” explained Mitte. “They do want to fight you, but they don’t want you to fight back. That’s not okay. That’s not okay.”
Mitte also explained that it’s important to consider the lasting effects of bullying and how those who are the targets of verbal or physical abuse need to stay true to themselves and not allow a bully to affect who they are as a person. “You cannot erase a memory, no matter how much you try and no matter how much you want to forget about it and it not be there, it’s there. It will always be there, and that’s what you have to keep in mind: how far do the effects go? As soon as someone infects you with fear, you start acting irrationally. You don’t act on who you are and what you are and then from there, you start making decisions based on that person who picked on you. ‘This is what I’m going to do when I get older. This is what I’m going to be.’ And that’s the thing, you can’t let someone manipulate you into being what you’re not because that original action was not you – that was someone else.”
Mitte says he’ll always be a voice speaking out against bullying and encouraging those who witness bullying in any form to speak out against it. “My main goal is to show people that you can stand up for what you are and who you are and not be manipulated by fear or by other people instilling their fear on you,” said Mitte. “I think it’s very important to give back. I don’t really look at it as giving back because I enjoy what I do, but I try and give back as much as possible. I think everyone should give. That’s the thing…when people of giving back, they think money or taking a week out of your life, but that’s not it. People can give back in everyday life. That’s what people need to realize.”
In addition to being a spokesman against bullying and working with organizations assisting those with disabilities, Mitte’s been busy producing the documentary film Vanished: The Tara Calico Story.
“I’ve been producing the documentary for almost five years now. We’re waiting on the justice system to catch up,” said Mitte. “We might be waiting another five years. I started producing and working with this director, Melinda Esquibel, who is now my manager and has been for the last couple of years, I started working with her on this documentary because it was a mutual friend of ours. It was her sister who went missing in 1988 and a picture of her in Port St. Joe, Florida showed up in the early ’90s, she and a young boy were bound and gagged in the back of a van. We started working on this quite a few years ago and we have two interviews left, and we’re about to get those done. We’re working on it. It’s a good story about her disappearance and the people who were involved and the family and the town that covered it up. It takes place in New Mexico. We’re lucky enough to be a part of this documentary and to help shed truth and light on a very situation. It’s a never-ending thing. We’re always moving forward and in the right direction.”
Jonathan Banks, Bob Odenkirk, Aaron Paul, Bryan Cranston, Betsy Brandt, Dean Norris, Anna Gunn and RJ Mitte in ‘Breaking Bad’ (Photo Credit: Frank Ockenfels/AMC)
And as a fan of Breaking Bad, I had to end our interview with one Breaking Bad question. The prequel Better Call Saul is currently in production, but if there were to be a Breaking Bad sequel, what does Mitte believe Junior would be doing 10 years after the show ended? “Oh, god! I don’t know,” answered Mitte, laughing. “It could go quite a few different directions. It all depends on what happens with the prequel. That will also set things in motion in the future. It will vary depending on the situation. But I don’t know. I’m hoping he’s a badass by then. I think that’s all I can hope. I hope that he’s kicking ass, maybe on two feet, maybe on three (with a cane). I can see Junior with a pimp cane.”
