AMC orders Silicon Valley show from Succession writer Jonathan Glatzer

AMC returns to Silicon Valley, this time via an untitled drama series from Jonathan Glatzer, writer of “Succession” and “Bad Sisters.” The project, from AMC Studios, has been greenlit by AMC and sister streamer AMC+.

When ordering the series, Dan McDermott, AMC Networks’ president of entertainment and AMC Studios, called the show a “compelling, engaging, authentic look behind the scenes of Silicon Valley.”

Glatzer previously worked on AMC’s “Better Call Saul.” This is the first show he has created that has been picked up for series.

“Jonathan is a tremendous talent and AMC is fortunate to be home to this, his first series creation brought to life,” McDermott added. “The show, which chronicles the lives of characters who create the world we will all live in, is here and now. The truth is stranger than fiction, especially here.”

According to the logline, the Glatzer show is set “in the bubble of Silicon Valley, amid misguided corporate cultures, moon-like innovation labs and cutthroat private high schools.” The series centers on a scandal sparked by “the exploitation of personal data that arises from a rift between a self-proclaimed ‘inventor of the future’ tech CEO and his egotistical ‘performance psychologist.’ This act of corruption is quickly spiraling out of control for everyone involved, exposing the absurdities of ambition, business ethics and the fallibility of the people shaping the future of our world.”

Glatzer said the series was inspired by the fact that technology – and the future it promises – is controlled by some “terrifyingly self-righteous people.” (We can all guess who he’s talking about.)

“They radiate a bizarre, semi-divine energy, but even they cannot escape their own humanity,” Glatzer said. “So instead of doing anything directly about ‘technology’, I wanted to focus on the people. And not just the titans, but also the restless wannabe titans, the children and spouses of the wannabes; their housekeepers, their schools, their psychiatrists, their dogs and gurus, they all live in this bubble where they truly believe – and perhaps rightly so – that they are inventing the future, dogs excepted.”

Glatzer also thanked AMC for embracing the series. “At a time when networks are looking for fastballs and strikes, I threw them a darkly comic curveball, and to their great credit, they have given me nothing but the utmost support a writer could ask for,” he added to.

AMC previously tackled Silicon Valley through the critically acclaimed period drama “Halt and Catch Fire,” which ran from 2014 to 2017 and chronicled the birth of personal computers in the 1980s and later the growth of the Internet in the 1990s.

Glatzer is represented by Industry, CAA and Chris Abramson.