MOVIE NEWS – The creator of Breaking Bad found inspiration in the unlikeliest place for his new Apple TV show: a Caribbean fish. No wonder everyone is buzzing about Pluribus, where Vince Gilligan transforms dread into unfiltered delight.

After a long build-up, Vince Gilligan’s latest series, Pluribus, has finally arrived, marking the next big move from the mind behind Breaking Bad. The story pits Rhea Seehorn against a humanity infected by a strange virus that grants “infinite joy” – an idea that has been simmering in the writer’s head for years.

Gilligan says the seed for Pluribus was the tale of a person adored by everyone on Earth. Back when he was still immersed in Better Call Saul, he shelved the concept to let it evolve.

Over time, the man became a woman, the adoration-inducing virus arrived from space via a radio signal, and the hive-mind concept took shape, pushing humanity to move in an intricate, perfectly synchronized choreography.

Those majestic crowd sequences are crafted by Nito Larioza, who makes the infected masses of Pluribus move in lockstep – to the amazement of the Apple TV series’ protagonist and viewers alike. The spark, though, is Gilligan’s own, born from an unusual Caribbean experience.

In recent interviews, the showrunner explained that the whole phenomenon clicked while he was indulging one of his hobbies in Caribbean waters: scuba diving. “I was fascinated. All those beautiful fish they’re swimming in a straight line, and suddenly the lead fish turns, and they all turn too, like those lights on the motorcycles in Tron. You can’t even see it happen. It’s faster than the human eye.”

That school of fish, a shoal moving as if sharing a single thought, led to the hive mind that powers Pluribus and infuses its scenes with a special, choreography-driven magic. Gilligan concedes, however, that no matter how good it looks on screen, achieving such harmony with actors is impossible: “You’ll never get people to move like fish.”

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