Breaking Bad creator wanted a game adaptation in the style of GTA

GTA and Breaking Bad would be a match made in heaven

Breaking Bad is widely regarded as one of the best TV series of all time, and frankly, its subject matter would make for a great game. The show’s creator Vince Gilligan thought so too, because he at one point pitched a GTA-like adaptation of the iconic series. Originally reported by , Gilligan expressed the interest he had in turning Breaking Bad into a game on a recent episode of his podcast “Inside The Gilliverse,” where he was accompanied by Eric Broadbent and Peter Gould.

Gilligan said that he’s “not much of a video game player,” but that he wanted to reach out to the studio that owns Grand Theft Auto and see if they could make “like a module” inspired by his series. Even for someone who doesn’t know games all that well, he might be onto something with a Breaking Bad x GTA DLC.

“There have been quite a few attempts at video games,” Gilligan continued. “Some of them kinda sort of made it to market. We tried to do a VR experience with the Sony PlayStation VR headset. We did a mobile game that lasted for a little while.” He’s referring to a narrative base-builder game that was released back in 2020 called Breaking Bad: Criminal Elements, .

Gilligan also shared the sentiment that the team behind Breaking Bad didn’t want to create a bad game that only drew players because of its association with the show, specifically referencing the colossal failure of the 1982 E.T. game for the Atari a🌟s something the💙y wanted to avoid replicating.

I honestly find it impressive that conversations are still swirling about adapting Breaking Bad int𒆙o a game — it speaks to the legacy the show has built nearly a decade afteꦇr it went off the air.