Billy Magnussen To Headline AMC’s Silicon Valley Drama Series From Jonathan Glatzer

Nellie Andreeva

10 February 2025 at 11:30 am·1-min read

EXCLUSIVE: Billy Magnussen has been tapped as the lead in AMC and AMC+’s untitled Jonathan Glatzer Silicon Valley series. He joins previously cast Sarah Goldberg.

The drama, produced by AMC Studios, is set inside the bubble of Silicon Valley, amid misguided corporate cultures, moony innovation labs and cutthroat private high schools. It is centered around a rift between a self-appointed “inventor of the future” tech CEO (Billy Magnussen) and his self-serving “performance psychologist” (Goldberg), who are engulfed in a scandal sparked by the exploitation of personal data.

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Magnussen’s Duncan is the co-founder of a Silicon Valley data-mining company.

Glatzer and Gina Mingacci executive produce the series, one of several high-profile Silicon Valley-set dramas that were put into development over the last year or so and the first to get a green light.

Magnussen most recently starred in HBO’s superhero movie satire series The Franchise from Sam Mendes and Armando Iannucci. He will next be seen opposite Margot Robbie in Kogonada’s Sony feature A Big Bold Beautiful Journey and as Pleakley in Disney’s live-action Lilo & Stitch. His recent credits also include the movies Lift and Road House. He is repped by UTA, Anonymous Content, and Sloan, Offer, Weber, and Dern.

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