El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie -

Keeping the project a secret for over a year required massive effort from the cast and crew:

Director Vince Gilligan began thinking about Jesse's fate while writing the series finale, "". While the show left Jesse’s ending ambiguous, Gilligan initially toyed with a "realistic" ending where Jesse gets caught by police. He eventually discarded this for the more optimistic Alaska storyline after feedback from his girlfriend and the Better Call Saul writing staff, who felt fans had seen Jesse suffer enough. 5 Surprising Production Secrets

: To explain his presence in Albuquerque, Aaron Paul told locals he was working on a small "indie passion project".