Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul will reprise their roles as Breaking Bad's Walter White and Jesse Pinkman in the sixth and final season of Better Call Saul, its co-creator has confirmed.
It's the news many fans of the hit show have been eagerly anticipating for years.
The spinoff series, which focuses on Bob Odenkirk's character of Jimmy McGill, aka Saul Goodman, has included many Breaking Bad characters since it launched in 2015. Better Call Saul has vastly expanded the stories of Mike Ehrmantraut and Gus Fring as well as its title character, with several other minor characters also featuring in cameo roles.
But until now, it has not featured Walt and Jesse, the original show's iconic main duo.
"I don't want to spoil things for the audience, but I will say the first question we had when we started the show was, 'Are we gonna see Walt and Jesse on the show?' Instead of evading, I'll just say yeah," said Better Call Saul co-creator Peter Gould recently (via Variety).
"How or the circumstances or anything, you'll just have to discover that for yourself, but I have to say that's one of many things that I think you'll discover this season... these two worlds cross over in a way that you haven't seen before, that's for sure."
Better Call Saul's final season will be released next week.
At a red carpet premiere in the US, Odenkirk added: "I personally feel that the two shows - Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul - are entwined even more than ever in the final season. And I think that's surprising and cool, and it's gonna make you want to watch Breaking Bad again."
Other Breaking Bad characters that have featured in the preceding Better Call Saul seasons include DEA agents Hank and Gomey, security guard and pickpocket Huell, Madrigal executive Lydia, crazed gangster Tuco Salamanca, Gale the ill-fated chemist, meth dealer Krazy-8 and the terrifying, murderous Salamanca twin brothers.
Walt and Jesse have already been reprised in Netflix's 2015 El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie, although it was a brief cameo scene for Cranston.
Better Call Saul and Breaking Bad are viewable on Neon in New Zealand.
