Bleak, Brutal, Brilliant ‘Breaking Bad’: Inside the Smash Hit That Almost Never Got Made

In the new issue of The Hollywood Reporter, the cast and crew of TV’s darkest and most addictive drama reveal all about the show’s unlikely road to the small screen (HBO wouldn’t even “grace them with a no”), the fight to cast Walter White (AMC wanted Matthew Broderick or John Cusack) and the upcoming “bloodbath” of a series finale.read more