"It was the first time I’d written anything close to real life experience. When they were writing the pilot, "I sat with my dad for two hours and just talked to him about his work and the different vernacular used and loosened him up with a couple of beers," Cantwell told The Hollywood Reporter. "You had companies like EDS, you had Michael Dell making computers in his dorm room, you had Texas Instruments, and Charles Tandy who brought Radio Shack and created the Tandy computer and marketed it to great success," said Cantwell, whose father was also working there as a software salesman. "Silicon Valley, Boston, New York, IBM, Microsoft, all those stories and companies have been exploited dramatically to great effect.” But Texas, Cantwell pointed out, was also a pretty big tech player. “We wanted to find the place you didn’t know," Cantwell explained. THEY SET IT IN TEXAS BECAUSE THE AREA WASN'T "EXPLOITED." "We still have the email from our agents, who we love, which said 'Sounds great, interesting, but we probably can’t sell it.'" Still, they sent it off to HBO, Showtime, and AMC AMC bit.
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Rogers, wrote a movie script together before writing the Halt and Catch Fire pilot as a spec script, just as a way to get staffed on a writing show. "Our agents, who were trying to staff us, told us to write something that we love because we’ll never be able to sell it," Cantwell said. Cantwell and his colleague, Christopher C. Christopher Cantwell was a marketing executive who came up with the viral Toy Story 3 promo of a fake Lots-o'-Huggin' Bear YouTube upload.
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