Sorry, b--ch!
Here's hoping you all respect the age-old sentiment of don't shoot the messenger as we've got some bad news for Breaking Bad fans: Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul will not be showing up on AMC"s highly anticipated prequel, Better Call Saul, premiering Sunday, Feb. 8.
"Walt and Jesse will not appear in season one," executive producer Peter Gould said at AMC's presentation during the 2015 Winter TCA Press Tour on Saturday. "We want this to stand on its own. We don't want to mislead people in expecting something that's not going to happen. But having said that, everything else is on the table."
Still, never say never, as executive producer and Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan added, "We're not saying it's never going to happen, we're not saying it will happen."
And deadbeat as ever, Jonathan Banks (aka Mike!) quickly jumped in to say, "I'm saying it's never gonna happen!"
Last year, there were reports that Cranston and Paul were in talks to appear in multiple episodes of the spinoff, with Paul himself saying, "The idea of jumping into the skin of Jesse Pinkman again in his lighter days—because it's all a prequel—it would be fun."
While Gilligan did offer up hope for fans hoping to see Walt and Jesse again, he admitted having the latter appear could prove to be "tricky" as he'd be in middle school or high school as Better Call Saul is set six years before Breaking Bad, when shady lawyer Saul Goodman is Jimmy McGill.
But fans should expect to see some familiar faces pop up.
"How many characters from the Breaking Bad world may or may not appear on Better Call Saul as it goes forward...I have to admit a big part of the fun for us...setting the show as a prequel is that it allows the sky to be limit in the sense that all the characters that are deceased when Breaking Bad ends could show up."
Also set to cross over from Breaking Bad is the overall tone, as Bob Odenkirk said, "There's a crazy ton of overlap because Vince and Peter are the brains behind it and the brains behind Breaking Bad. Tonally and story-wise and expertise, it's all carried over."
He jokingly added, "Every time I come into the office for this show, I say, Has Walter White called yet?"
Better Call Saul airs Mondays at 10 p.m. on AMC.