Breaking Bad El Camino: Is Walter White dead? Will he come back for El Camino?

Breaking Bad was an iconic series, starring Bryan Cranston as one of the greatest antiheroes of all time. Walter White became infamous for going from a chemistry teacher trying to make money for his family, to a dangerous drug lord. Many fans are desperate to find out if he will be appearing in the film.

Is Walter White Dead? 

Fans who watched the finale of Breaking Bad will remember that things did not go particularly well for Walter White.

First, he was forced to go into hiding after his brother in law and DEA agent Hank (played by Dean Norris) was killed by Jack (Michael Bowen) the head of the family of neo-Nazis.

After this, Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul) is kidnapped by the neo-Nazis and forced to cook meth, while Walt goes on the run.

Walt returns ready for revenge and gets an automatic machine gun rigged to his car, so it will shoot and kill everyone when he opens the boot.

He lets this loose at a fake meeting with the Aryan Brotherhood, where he kills everyone except Jesse and Todd Alquist (Jesse Plemons,) the latter of whom is strangled to death by Jesse.

Jesse then drives away, elated to finally escape, but Walt is left mortally wounded and hits the deck, dying as police arrive.

Many fans have questioned whether Walt is truly dead, but creator Vince Gilligan has finally opened up on this fact.

Speaking on US radio show The Rich Eisen Show about whether there will be more Breaking Bad, Gilligan said: “I think it’s the last one of these.

“But, then, probably five years ago I said…the last Breaking Bad episode was the last one of these too.

“So I’m just apparently a pathological liar, don’t take anything I say…”

He added: “I do not intend to make anything further at this point. I’m not trying to be coy.

“But then I didn’t intend to do anything further after Breaking Bad. You sort of go where your heart takes you.

“But having said that, I feel like what I really probably should do next is do something completely different because…it’s an interesting golden handcuffs that success gives you.

“You want that success to continue and the safest way, you think, to do that is to keep mining that same vein of ore…keep telling that same story.

“But I really figure I’d better do something new this time around.”

Then, hitting fans with a final blow, he added: “You know what, yeah. 

“I’m gonna give you that one too…yes, Walter White is dead.”

Despite Walter being dead, however, actor Bryan Cranston did appear at the premiere of the new movie, screened earlier this week.

So does Walter’s death mean that he will not feature in El Camino?

Gilligan has also said that “more than 10” familiar faces will appear in El Camino and, at the premiere, various actors hit the red carpet whose characters are well and truly dead.

This includes Krysten Ritter, whose character Jane Margolis was Jesse’s ex-girlfriend, who died of an overdose.

As well as this, Jonathan Banks, who played Mike Ehrmentraut, was also at the premiere, despite Walter killing Mike in the final series.

So, while Walter may definitely be dead, there is no reason why he will not turn up again in El Camino.

However, fans will have to wait and see when the film drops on Netflix.

El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie is out on Netflix on October 11