To wring every ounce of excitement out of the last two episodes of “Breaking Bad,” AMC has announced that they will be 75 minutes a piece, running from 9 p.m. to 10:15 p.m. EST.
According to the Hollywood Reporter co-executive producer Peter Gould tweeted the announcement on Wednesday.
Additionally, “Breaking Bad” star Bryan Cranston has finally announced his first post-series project. He will play blacklisted Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Trumbo in a biopic directed by Jay Roach, who won Emmys for the HBO films “Game Change” and “Recount.”
Trumbo went to prison in 1950 for refusing to testify before the House Committee on Un-American Activities. The only way he could continue to write screenplays was under a pseudonym, which he did for the 1953 Audrey Hepburn film “Roman Holiday.” Trumbo’s screenplay won an Oscar, but the statuette went to Ian McLellan Hunter who fronted for him. In December 1992, the Academy decided to change the records and credited Trumbo with the achievement. The Oscar was posthumously presented to his widow on May 10th, 1993.
Trumbo also wrote the 1939 incendiary antiwar novel, “Johnny Got His Gun.”