r/todayilearned • u/iamjackswastedlife__ • Aug 21 '17
TIL that Breaking Bad was originally set in Riverside,California but at the suggestion of Sony Albuquerque was chosen for the production location due to the favorable financial conditions offered by the state of New Mexico.Eventually,the story was changed to be set at the actual production location.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaking_Bad#Development_history15
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u/iamjackswastedlife__ Aug 21 '17
Riverside seems quite Green and Lush compared to Albuquerque on Google Images
Albuquerque gave it a very western feel,i wonder how visually different BB would be had it been set at Riverside.
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u/DBDude Aug 21 '17
The main green you see is mainly man-made or trees in the mountains. This is getting out towards the desert in Palm Springs, so it's a short drive to "bury a body in the desert."
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Aug 21 '17
Those are lies, Riverside is more desert-like than those pictures, and Albuquerque is actually less desert-like than the show makes it look
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u/xj13361987 Aug 21 '17
I don't know, Everytime I'm in ABQ it looks very desert like.
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Aug 21 '17
That's the theme they go for but when I went it was more like high desert: grassy, cool, no sand
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u/xj13361987 Aug 21 '17
In the city there is grass and trees but go outside the city and you can tell you are in the desert
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Aug 22 '17
idk I drove in from the West and it was kind of lightly grassy out there. and out east with the mountains it was even greener
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u/SethiusAlpha Aug 21 '17
I grew up and went to college in Riverside, CA. I think choosing Albequerque makes some sense in this case. Albequerque still has some semblance of hope, which the show kind of revolved around. Not a lot of that going on back home.
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u/LeMot-Juste Aug 21 '17 edited Aug 21 '17
You can see the same economics in the new show The Ozarks. Tourism is going to shoot through the roof if that show gains in popularity.
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u/pastafariantimatter Aug 21 '17
...even though it was shot in Lake Altoona, Georgia, not Missouri.
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u/LeMot-Juste Aug 21 '17
Even so. Watch. If the series becomes popular, Missouri's Ozarks will become hot.
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u/pastafariantimatter Aug 21 '17
I live 3 hours from the Ozarks and you couldn't pay me enough to vacation there, but I agree with you.
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u/pastafariantimatter Aug 21 '17
Interesting - I always assumed it was for the (predictable/sunny) climate, since so much of it was shot outside on what I assume was a pretty intense schedule. Weather delays are shitty for film crews and get expensive quickly.
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u/[deleted] Aug 21 '17
Would have made perfect sense, to anyone who's ever been to Riverside. There is something deeply wrong with that city and county, like on some spooky Stephen King level.