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Billy Magnussen Storms Silicon Valley in ‘The Audacity’

Billy Magnussen Storms Silicon Valley in ‘The Audacity’

Jonathan Glatzer wasn’t particularly familiar with Silicon Valley when the president of AMC Studios, Dan McDermott, approached him about making a show set in the tech capital. Still, he was intrigued. “I don’t know shit about tech, but those people do seem to be quite curious to me,” he told McDermott. After the Emmy-winning writer and producer spent some time inside the Northern California bubble, he was fully on board. “I found this world to be such a strange, silly place. It humanized them for me, as these big-brain people, and it also terrified me a little bit,” he tells Vanity Fair. Glatzer’s upcoming eight-episode series, The Audacity, is a darkly comic drama about ambition in the tech bubble, centered on a rich cast of characters led by Duncan Park (Billy Magnussen)—an audacious data-mining CEO who will stop at nothing to amass profit and power. As exclusively announced by Vanity Fair, the eight-episode series will premiere Sunday, April 12 on AMC and AMC+, with additional episodes debuting weekly on Sundays. Zach Galifianakis (pictured with Sarah …