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Joe McMillan
(Lee Pace)
Joe MacMillan is a hard-driving former IBM sales executive who oozes charisma and has all the surface-level attributes of an American winner. He shows up at Cardiff Electric and essentially bulldozes his way into a senior position on the sales team. Once he has the job, he immediately orchestrates a plan to reverse-engineer the flagship product of his former employer and build something better, but his ultimate agenda is an open question. While Joe will handle the sales for this new personal computer, he needs the partnership of engineer Gordon Clark and programmer Cameron Howe to build this next-generation product.
Gordon Clark (Scoot McNairy) A once-promising engineer, Gordon Clark is sleepwalking through life until the day Joe MacMillan approaches him with a plan to reverse-engineer the IBM PC. He longs for a redo of his past, the humiliating and public failure of the Symphonic, a computer he created with his wife, Donna, which failed to turn on at a computer industry trade show. After that traumatizing experience, Gordon reluctantly moved his family to Dallas, Donna’s hometown, and took a job at Cardiff Electric that is far below his abilities. He has a second chance at success, but the deck is stacked against him.
Joe MacMillan is a hard-driving former IBM sales executive who oozes charisma and has all the surface-level attributes of an American winner. He shows up at Cardiff Electric and essentially bulldozes his way into a senior position on the sales team. Once he has the job, he immediately orchestrates a plan to reverse-engineer the flagship product of his former employer and build something better, but his ultimate agenda is an open question. While Joe will handle the sales for this new personal computer, he needs the partnership of engineer Gordon Clark and programmer Cameron Howe to build this next-generation product.
Gordon Clark (Scoot McNairy) A once-promising engineer, Gordon Clark is sleepwalking through life until the day Joe MacMillan approaches him with a plan to reverse-engineer the IBM PC. He longs for a redo of his past, the humiliating and public failure of the Symphonic, a computer he created with his wife, Donna, which failed to turn on at a computer industry trade show. After that traumatizing experience, Gordon reluctantly moved his family to Dallas, Donna’s hometown, and took a job at Cardiff Electric that is far below his abilities. He has a second chance at success, but the deck is stacked against him.
PeopleScoot McNairy, Lee Pace
TitlesHalt and Catch Fire, FUD
Photo by James Minchin III/AMC - © AMC Film Holdings LLC.