Breaking Bad Creator Vince Gilligan don’t let go of the acclaimed actress Rhea Seehorn. After the success of Breaking BadGilligan went on to co-create the hit prequel series You better call Saul next to Peter Gould. The show introduced Seehorn as Kim Wexler, a character who became a real fan favorite over the course of six seasons. At the Primetime Emmy Awards, Seehorn was nominated for an acting award for her work on the show’s final season.
Of You better call Saul finished, Gilligan teases that he’s working on something new that isn’t in the Breaking Bad universe. But there’s nothing stopping him from recruiting Seehorn to help with his latest project, as reported by Variety. Perhaps given his track record of success, his new series has already secured an order for two seasons on the streaming platform Apple TV+. Plot details have not yet been revealed, but it is said that Seehorn will play the main character. Because this is not in the moves Breaking Bad universe, she doesn’t play Kim Wexler.
Gilligan is the sole creator of this new series starring Seehorn, whose title has not yet been announced. He is also executive producer with Jeff Frost and Diane Mercer, while Jenn Carroll of Gilligan’s High Bridge Productions banner will produce. Sony Pictures TV is the studio behind the series.
Rhea Seehorn will play a heroic character
Gilligan had recently teased that he wanted to create a new show that followed a character who was more of an obvious hero. In Breaking Bad and You better call Saul, the stories focused mainly on anti-heroes, and Gilligan wants to do something different by going back to the days when the main characters in TV shows were old-fashioned good guys. He was clearly talking about this project, as he now says in a statement that Seehorn is the most heroic person he could imagine, making her a perfect casting choice for this new show.
“After fifteen years, I felt it was time to take a break from writing antiheroes…and who could be more heroic than the brilliant Rhea Seehorn?” Gilligan said. “It’s been a long time since she had her own show, and I feel privileged to work with her on it. And what a beautiful symmetry to be reunited with Zack Van Amburg, Jamie Erlicht and Chris Parnell! Jamie and Zack were the first two people to say yes to Breaking Bad all those years ago. They’ve built a great team at Apple and my wonderful long-standing partners at Sony Pictures Television and I’m excited to do business with them.”
Seehorn is not alone You better call Saul star to land a lead role on a new TV show. Bob Odenkirk and Giancarlo Esposito will both remain with AMC to lead their own new shows as well. For Odenkirk he will play the lead role in honest man, a drama about a man who becomes the unlikely president of a badly underfunded Pennsylvania university. Meanwhile, Esposito will shine in The driver as a taxi driver whose life is turned upside down when he picks up a dangerous mobster for the ride of his life.