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AMC showed disconnected its latest play bid The Audacity past nighttime pinch creator Jonathan Glatzer comparing nan Billy Magnussen and Sarah Goldberg-fronted show to Peyton Place if it was group successful a tech bubble.
Glatzer, who antecedently worked connected AMC’s Better Call Saul and HBO’s Succession, said astatine nan LA premiere of nan eight-part drama.
“This is simply a nighttime for gratitude. I deliberation that’s astir apt nan champion approach. It’s either that aliases a full-on crazy coke fueled [night] and that’s not my bag,” he joked.
He said that Dan McDermott, Chief Content Officer and President astatine AMC Networks, called him pinch nan thought of doing thing successful nan tech world. “I said I’m not sure, but nan group location look really funny to me. What if we conscionable expanded that and made it look almost for illustration a Peyton Place wrong of this bubble pinch psychiatrists, there’s a backstage schoolhouse and there’s a feline from nan VA,” he said. “I deliberation nan constituent of it was, tech affects each of our lives. It’s successful each of our lives. It’s successful each of our everything. To conscionable do thing that takes spot successful an agency seemed overmuch conscionable very reductive. Seven and a half cardinal of america are users of tech 1 measurement aliases another, and they cognize it, and that’s wherever nan communicative starts to go.”
The Audacity is group wrong nan bubble of Silicon Valley and takes connected nan warped dreams, outsized egos, and ethical lapses of nan self-styled inventors of nan future. In a world of jaded billionaires, psychiatrist-gurus, bio-hacked tech bros, AI labs and disillusioned teens being optimized successful elite backstage schools, an audacious data-mining CEO (Magnussen) strives to move penetration and power into profit and power. The darkly comedic play confronts reality, privacy, and nan delusions fueling our ever-changing world.
The bid besides stars Sarah Goldberg, Zach Galifianakis, Lucy Punch, Simon Helberg and Rob Corddry.
Goldberg plays a therapist, thing that was acquainted to Glatzer. “My mother is here. I did turn up successful a location pinch a psychiatrist and a therapist and well, you’ll spot immoderate of that successful this story. In nary measurement is nan portion that is played truthful brilliantly by Sarah Goldberg pinch castrating Zionist benignant of energy, based connected my mom,” he joked.
The bid launches connected AMC and AMC+ connected April 12. Glatzer serves arsenic creator, writer and exec shaper pinch Gina Mingacci arsenic exec shaper of nan AMC Studios production.
McDermott called nan bid “timely, insightful and wickedly authentic”. He said that nan institution greenlight nan bid 2 weeks aft receiving a draught book from Glatzer and it renewed it, arsenic revealed by Deadline, up of its Season 1 premiere.
“We knew we had thing special,” he added. “We assembled a lineup of writers, board and formed that is among nan astir talented ever to beryllium assembled astatine AMC. The Audacity takes nan assemblage connected a heavy dive into a world that is inventing nan early arsenic quickly arsenic it’s reinventing itself, while nan show features razor crisp writing, singular characters and a propulsive communicative that races done each area of nan Valley astatine breakneck pace. It ne'er forgets that down each nan technology, nan jargon, nan billions of dollars, are afloat dimensional group who person spot and flaws, and supra each else, are profoundly human.”
