The volatile partnership between Breaking Bad's Walter White (Bryan Cranston) and Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul) reaches new heights in a new fan edit putting pop culture's most popular meth cooks into a video game. Using creative editing, the video uses footage from the Nintendo Wii game Mario Kart Wii with Walt and Jesse racing on the infamous track, Rainbow Road. The clip has gone viral after getting uploaded to YouTube by Chiptuner, and you can check out the video for yourself below.
While Breaking Bad ended in 2013, Walt and Jesse have been back in the spotlight lately after both characters appeared in the final season of the prequel series Better Call Saul. With no new shows in the works, chances are we have seen the last of these characters in the Breaking Bad world. But thanks to the internet, Walt and Jesse will live on forever through Breaking Bad's place in pop culture history, as new videos like the one above continue to celebrate the dynamic duo.
The city of Albuquerque has also gotten in on the recent Breaking Bad celebration in a very big way. Bronze statues of Walt and Jesse were erected in the city, even amid some criticism about "glorifying" the fictional drug dealers. However, there are many in the city who are very grateful for the show's production, as working on the show and its spinoff had been very beneficial to the people of Albuquerque for years. In any case, the statues make it more evident than ever just how revered Breaking Bad will always be.
Breaking Bad's Creator Wanted a Proper Video Game Adaptation
It's fun to imagine Walt and Jesse in Mario Kart Wii, but there had actually been efforts made in the past for Breaking Bad to get a legitimate video game adaptation in the vein of Grand Theft Auto. Recently, creator Vince Gilligan revealed on the Inside the Gilliverse podcast that he tried multiple times to get a solid video game based on the show developed, but it was a lot more difficult than he expected to get it done, so the game never materialized in the way that he'd hoped.
"We did [have video game discussions] early on," he said. "I'm not much of a video game player, but how can you not know of Grand Theft Auto? I remember saying... 'Who owns Grand Theft Auto? Can't you have a module? Can there be a Breaking Bad [game]?' It still makes sense to me. That never came to fruition."
It's interesting that Gilligan says that a video game still "makes sense" to him, now that Better Call Saul is over. Even with no TV shows set in that world happening anytime soon, maybe a video game spinoff will still arrive some day.