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In their research, Cantwell and Rogers came throughout tales of pc engineers at Compaq taking dangers by making an attempt to reverse engineer the IBM Pc. For his or her first collaboration, Rogers helped Cantwell with creating a tv adaptation of his movie screenplay Very Prepared Men, a story a couple of secret society of the extremely-rich. Cantwell and Rogers initially mentioned "males beneath pressure" tales like Glengarry Glen Ross, though they didn't need their topics to be medical doctors or police officers, believing them to be nicely-trod territory in tv. Rogers referred to himself and Cantwell as "dream-deferred writers". Since the managers thought it was unlikely a network would possibility a script from first-time writers, their intent was to make use of the sample script to land Cantwell and Rogers entry-degree writing positions in the trade. On October 23, 2012, Cantwell and Rogers pitched the network on how they envisioned Halt and Catch Fire as a potential series. He and Rogers were stunned to search out that the AMC executives had a duplicate of their script at the meeting. Contrasting with her character's technical experience, Bishé described herself as a Luddite, and in making ready for the position, she did not discover it necessary to "understand the way the computers work" but rather to "understand the people that understand the way computers work". |
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