page_title: El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
section_title: Secrecy
hierarchical_section_title: El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie / Production / Principal photography / Secrecy
caption_attribution_description: English: Bryan Cranston at the 2012 Comic-Con in San Diego.
context_page_description: El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie is a 2019 American neo-Western crime thriller film that serves as a sequel and epilogue to the television series Breaking Bad, which followed chemistry teacher Walter White partnering with a former student Jesse Pinkman to become kingpins in the production of crystal meth. Series creator Vince Gilligan wrote, directed, and produced the film, while Aaron Paul reprised his role as Jesse Pinkman. The plot follows Pinkman and the events that immediately follow the series finale. Several actors involved in the television series reprise their roles, including Jesse Plemons, Robert Forster, Charles Baker, Matt Jones, Jonathan Banks, Krysten Ritter, and Bryan Cranston. El Camino was also one of Forster's final film appearances, as he died on the day of its release.
  Gilligan first began considering the story of El Camino during the filming of the final season of Breaking Bad. Gilligan approached Paul with the idea in 2017, near the tenth anniversary of Breaking Bad, and filming began in secret in New Mexico in November 2018, lasting nearly 50 days. The project remained unconfirmed until August 2019, when Netflix released a trailer.
context_section_description: To shoot his scenes for the film, Bryan Cranston flew to Albuquerque in a private jet during a January two-day break from his performance in the Broadway play Network. As Cranston had grown his hair out since the series ended, a bald cap and fake moustache were used to help him achieve the look of Walter White. The diner scene was filmed first, with the set containing only crew members and their families serving as extras in order to keep the shoot confidential. Despite the enclosed filming location, numerous locals spotted the show's iconic RV in the parking lot of the diner, but the crew used the excuse that they were shooting a commercial for a Breaking Bad tour to deflect attention. The hallway scene was filmed the next day; afterward Cranston immediately returned to the airport. To ensure that there were no paparazzi photos, Cranston was heavily disguised when he was escorted from and throughout the set. When Cranston was off the set, he and Paul were told to avoid seeing each other.
  Similar measures were taken to ensure that news of filming would not reach the locals, with cast and crew under tight restrictions about what they could say about the project. Cast members wore large cloaks to disguise their identities when heading to the set or when shooting outside in public places. Actors were ordered not to be seen with one another in the area, and when recognized they would lie about the project they were working on. By the time local media made a connection between Greenbrier and Breaking Bad, filming had been mostly wrapped.
  Filming of Better Call Saul's fifth season took place shortly after El Camino finished shooting to take advantage of the assembled crew. As such, cast members of Better Call Saul became aware of El Camino's existence but swore to secrecy on the project. Days before the film's announcement, Bob Odenkirk, who stars as Saul Goodman on Better Call Saul, teased that the film was already completed and that the producers had done "an amazing job of keeping it a secret".
caption: Bryan Cranston's cameo as Walter White was filmed in absolute secrecy during his two day break from the Broadway play Network.
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