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The Audacity creator Jonathan Glatzen and prima Billy Magnussen, who plays able tech CEO Duncan Park, took nan shape astatine Deadline Contenders TV to talk astir taking nan tech monster lurking successful nan shadows and those responsible for its existence, and turning it into a comedy.
“The bubble of Silicon Valley and nan products that they put retired do thin to dehumanize america each and themselves,” Glatzen said. “The thought was ‘let’s make [the characters] fearfulness their ain humanity and fto nan joke travel from that.’ AI is mining retired emails, our Zoom chats, everything, guys. Do not judge cookies. … They opportunity that erstwhile they extremity talking astir Big Brother, they won.”
In summation to nan existential problems of nan products being produced successful nan Valley, for Glatzen there’s nan logistical rumor of keeping up pinch nan highly accelerated gait of technology.
“There’s nary measurement to support up pinch it, and of people a TV show is written 12-18 months earlier it shoots, truthful I knew that this was a title that I couldn’t triumph successful position of trying to expect what it would beryllium like,” he said. “Right now we’re penning nan 2nd season, which is possibly moreover much a jumbled taste scenery correct now than erstwhile we wrote nan first season. I spent a small clip successful Silicon Valley and I went up location pinch nan proposition that individual information is possibly thing that we could really onshore connected and was somewhat evergreen and was ever going to beryllium an issue.”
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When asked if immoderate of these diabolically hilarious characters successful nan AMC show were based connected immoderate family names for illustration Elon Musk aliases Jeff Bezos, Magnussen joked: “We screened it successful Silicon Valley for these tech titans, and they were like, ‘Wow you guys benignant of nailed it.’ They each kept saying, ‘I cognize who that personification is. I cognize who that is.’ And we were like, ‘No it’s really you.’”
Magnussen still was capable to find nan humanity successful Duncan Park. As Glatzen put it: “In nan hands of Billy Magnussen, you do find yourself rooting for [Duncan]. I deliberation that’s an unthinkable magic instrumentality you’re capable to propulsion off.” Said Magnussen: “He’s sad to me. [Duncan] was a hopeful spirit, astir apt nan genesis of nan thought was to travel to nan Valley and do thing beautiful. Then greed, jealousy and fearfulness consumed him, and I consciousness sad for him much than anything. That’s benignant of really I built Duncan pinch [Glatzen]. He conscionable wants to beryllium great, he wants to beryllium enough, he wants his dada to emotion him.”
The nine-part AMC bid was picked up for a 2nd season earlier nan first section moreover premiered. New episodes driblet Sundays connected AMC.
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