To that end, I spent several more weeks expanding my 15-minute thumbnail into a full-fledged, 30-minute rundown of the first episode. Now that I had a studio behind me, it was time to try to garner interest from a network. I knew these guys from a previous project and figured they might be receptive. Then I booked a meeting with Zack Van Amburg and Jamie Erlicht, the co-heads of Sony Television. Hilarity ensues.įeeling good about the bold originality of my concept, I spent a week or two honing it into a 15-minute pitch. Needing quick cash for his family, he tries his hand at drug dealing. It was the story of a suburban dad who, upon being diagnosed with terminal cancer, decides to throw his law-abiding life of propriety to the wind. In a 2012 Newsweek article, the show’s creator, Vince Gilligan, explains it this way:īack in 2005, a crazy idea for a television series popped nearly full-blown into my head. With this in mind, and with Breaking Bad’s final episodes poised to air this month, consider the story of how close the award-winning series came to never existing. I encourage you to persevere, no matter how tempted you are to quit. It’s important to remember that nobody else can write your specific characters or your take on the story. Too many writers throw in the towel at this point, complaining that all the good ideas are already taken. One of the more common excuses I hear from my clients is that they just heard about some other project out there that is similar to their own. Writers can so easily talk themselves out of finishing a script and come up with a myriad of reasons why continuing on would be futile.
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