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Remember Jonathan Banks’ famous Breaking Bad monologue that concluded with his character Mike Ehrmantraut turning the phrase, “No more half measures, Walter”? That was the handiwork of writer-producer Sam Catlin.
The two-time Emmy winner penned 10 episodes of Vince Gilligan’s landmark crime series before staying with Sony/AMC to shepherd four seasons of the genre-bending Preacher. A few years later, Catlin would be recruited by the now former Sony executives he’d worked with during his Breaking Bad tenure to help stick the landing of Apple TV’s Sugar season one. That same year, Apple TV’s co-heads of programming, Jamie Erlicht and Zack Van Amburg, reunited with even more talent from the Bad universe they helped launch including: Gilligan (Pluribus), Rhea Seehorn (Pluribus), director/EP Michelle MacLaren (Constellation) and Banks (Constellation).
In season one of the Colin Farrell-led neo-noir series, Los Angeles PI/undercover alien, John Sugar, helps a legendary film producer (James Cromwell’s Jonathan Siegel) find his missing granddaughter. With Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul casting directors Sharon Bialy and Sherry Thomas in charge of Sugar’s casting, Emmy winner Anna Gunn marked yet another familiar face, as did Catlin’s wife, Julie Dretzin, who previously played the divorce attorney for Gunn’s embattled Bad character, Skyler White.
