Part of the Breaking Bad franchise , it serves as a sequel and epilogue to the television series Breaking Bad. It continues the story of Jesse Pinkman , who partnered with former teacher Walter White throughout the series to build a crystal meth empire based in Albuquerque. Forster died on the day of the film's release, making it one of his final on-screen appearances. Gilligan began considering the story of El Camino while writing Breaking Bad ' s series finale.
He approached Paul with the idea for the film in , near the tenth anniversary of the show's premiere , and completed the script several months later. Principal photography began in secret in New Mexico in November , lasting nearly 50 days. The project remained unconfirmed until Netflix released a trailer on August 24, El Camino received a digital release on Netflix and a limited theatrical run on October 11, , with an AMC television premiere on February 16, In a flashback to shortly before they leave Walter White 's meth business, [ N 1 ] Jesse Pinkman asks Mike Ehrmantraut where he would go to start over.
Mike says if he were younger, he would go to Alaska , which Jesse finds appealing. Jesse expresses the desire to make amends for past wrongdoing, but Mike cautions that starting over would make that impossible.
Pete stays with the El Camino and waits for the police to respond to the LoJack. Jesse departs in Badger's Pontiac Fiero. He learns from the radio news of Walter's fatal poisoning of a woman, [ N 3 ] and of Walter's death. In a flashback to Jesse's captivity, [ N 4 ] Todd takes Jesse to Todd's apartment to help dispose of his cleaning lady, whom he killed after she discovered his hidden money.
Jesse briefly holds the pistol Todd left unsecured, but Todd talks him into returning it. In the present, Jesse sneaks into Todd's apartment and searches for Todd's money. He finds the new hiding place, but policemen Neil Kandy and Casey enter and begin searching. Jesse hides but holds Casey at gunpoint after Casey finds him. Neil disarms Jesse, who realizes they are not police but thugs also looking for Todd's money.
