Hollywood is coming for Silicon Valley, and Billy Magnussen and Sarah Goldberg are main the cost. The 2 actors have been forged because the leads in AMC and AMC+’s new tech-centric drama sequence by author Jonathan Glatzer. It is only one of a number of sequence aimed toward dressing down the insular Northern California tech world that is being shopped and/or developed round city in the mean time, however it’s the first one to get greenlit up to now this season.
Each Magnussen and Goldberg — maybe most well-known for his or her time main the HBO sequence The Franchise and Barry, respectively — will play central characters within the as-yet-untitled sequence from the Succession and Higher Name Saul author, as it’s being reported by Deadline. The present’s central battle will focus on a rift between the self-stylized “inventor of the long run” tech CEO of a knowledge mining firm (Billy Magnussen) and his self-serving “efficiency psychologist” (Sarah Goldberg), and the scandal they discover themselves in after it’s revealed that the corporate is definitely exploiting folks’s private knowledge and data. Which, you understand, might be/completely/positively not occurring proper now as we converse to all of us! Proper? Proper?!
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Although centered on the Silicon Valley world typically (and no, not that one), the sequence is claimed to take a deeper have a look at the individuals who self-mythologize and observe the coding rule of break first, ask questions later. “The tech world and the long run it’s providing is within the arms of some frighteningly self-involved folks,” Glatzer defined in an earlier assertion after the sequence was picked up by AMC Studios. “They radiate a weird, semi-deity-like power, however even they can’t escape their very own humanity. So, relatively than do one thing instantly about ‘tech,’ I needed to give attention to the folks. And never simply the titans, however the antsy wannabe titans, the youngsters and spouses of the wannabes; their housekeepers, their faculties, their psychiatrists, their canines and gurus alike, all of them dwelling on this bubble the place they really imagine — and maybe rightly — they’re inventing the long run, canines excepted.”
AMC is Betting Large On Silicon Valley This 12 months
In a press release launched earlier this 12 months, president of leisure and AMC Studios for AMC Networks, Dan McDermott, had this to say concerning the sequence:
“Prepare for a fascinating, enthralling, genuine look behind the scenes of Silicon Valley. Jonathan is an enormous expertise and AMC is fortunate to be the house of this, his first sequence creation dropped at life. The present, which chronicles the lives of characters creating the world we’ll all inhabit, is correct right here and proper now. Fact is stranger than fiction, particularly right here.”
Along with their earlier HBO sequence, Magnussen and Goldberg even have a number of different initiatives in varied levels of manufacturing and growth. Magnussen will subsequent be seen reverse Margot Robbie in Kogonada’s subsequent characteristic movie, A Large Daring Lovely Journey, after which later seem as Pleakley in Disney’s live-action Lilo & Sew. As for Goldberg, she will subsequent be seen reverse Isabella Rossellini and Dennis Haysbert in Todd Strauss-Schulson’s Silent Retreat and the Sundance tv sequence SisterS.
Glatzer’s as-yet-untitled Silicon Valley sequence doesn’t but have a launch date.