AMC, the network behind The Walking Dead, Breaking Bad and Mad Men, has finally revealed a trailer from it’s new show Halt and Catch Fire. Check it out:
Via Collider:
“Halt and Catch Fire” is set roughly one year after IBM all but corners the market with the release of its first major product — the IBM PC. It is also the same year people realize that the IBM PC has a fatal flaw, which quickly makes personal computing anyone’s game. In this fictional drama, a former IBM executive, Joe MacMillan (Lee Pace), plans to reverse-engineer the flagship product of his former employer, and he forces his current company, Cardiff Electric, into the personal computer race. MacMillan enlists the help of Gordon Clark (Scoot McNairy), a once-great engineer who dreams of creating a revolutionary product while trying to manage his initially unsupportive wife, Donna (Kerry Bishé), and Cameron Howe (Mackenzie Davis), a volatile prodigy who puts her future in jeopardy to join MacMillan’s rogue PC project. “Halt and Catch Fire” thrives on the spirit of innovation and explores what it’s like to stand at the forefront of something truly great and world-changing and work toward it, no matter the risk.”
AMC have produced three of the biggest shows of the last ten years, one of which being arguably the biggest. This looks to contain a lot of the off-beat charm their productions often exude, while still having that hard-edged seriousness they’ve become known for. I will absolutely be checking this out.
Halt and Catch Fire stars Scoot McNairy, Lee Pace, Mackenzie Davis, Kerry Bishé, Toby Huss, and many more. It is set to air on AMC, premiering on Sunday June 1st, 2014 at 10 PM ET/PT.
