AMC ordered two scripted drama pilots Tuesday, one of which will embellish the 1980s personal computing boom. Halt & Catch Fire will tell the tech story "through the eyes of a visionary, an engineer and a prodigy whose innovations directly confront the corporate behemoths of the time."
Breaking Bad executive producers Mark Johnson and Melissa Bernstein will serve similar roles for the show's production, which begins in 2013. Chris Cantwell and Chris Rodgers created Halt & Catch Fire.
The show is set in Texas' Silicon Prairie and its characters "will be challenged by greed and ego."
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