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ATX TV Festival 2024 Spotlight

Texas oil companies were scared at first of Billy Bob Thornton's Landman, but co-creator says they're now "lining up": Here's why
Christian Wallace had a hard time getting resources for Landman because Texan companies were apprehensive about Hollywood
Joshua Lapin-Bertone

There's a Green Bay Packers Vince Lombardi movie missing its actor Billy Bob Thornton, as the Landman star reveals he turned down the role
Landman’s Billy Bob Thornton was once offered the chance to play football legend Vince Lombardi, which he believes would have been a miscast
Joshua Lapin-Bertone

The Halt and Catch Fire producers could have thought the cast were planning a coup, but they were just having their own table reads
When AMC wouldn’t plan table reads, the Halt and Catch Fire cast planned their own (which made the studio nervous)
Joshua Lapin-Bertone

"Mutiny energy": How the constant threat of cancellation led AMC's Halt & Catch Fire to be more experimental and "blow it up" every season
The Halt and Catch Fire showrunners always thought they were getting cancelled, so they planned every season as if it was the last
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
ATX TV Festival 2024 Feed

Texas oil companies were scared at first of Billy Bob Thornton's Landman, but co-creator says they're now "lining up": Here's why
Christian Wallace had a hard time getting resources for Landman because Texan companies were apprehensive about Hollywood
Joshua Lapin-Bertone

There's a Green Bay Packers Vince Lombardi movie missing its actor Billy Bob Thornton, as the Landman star reveals he turned down the role
Landman’s Billy Bob Thornton was once offered the chance to play football legend Vince Lombardi, which he believes would have been a miscast
Joshua Lapin-Bertone

The Halt and Catch Fire producers could have thought the cast were planning a coup, but they were just having their own table reads
When AMC wouldn’t plan table reads, the Halt and Catch Fire cast planned their own (which made the studio nervous)
Joshua Lapin-Bertone

"Mutiny energy": How the constant threat of cancellation led AMC's Halt & Catch Fire to be more experimental and "blow it up" every season
The Halt and Catch Fire showrunners always thought they were getting cancelled, so they planned every season as if it was the last
Joshua Lapin-Bertone

The first draft of AMC’s Halt and Catch Fire was centered on astronauts, not computer programmers
CTRL-F the pitch for Halt & Catch Fire and replace "computer programmers" with "astronauts" and imagine that.
Joshua Lapin-Bertone