r/SiliconValleyHBO

I wrote a pilot for a dramedy where Silicon Valley meets Oceans 11 in the crypto market. Let me know what you think! (Preview in images, full script here: Hard F*rk Pilot

I worked to make it available for big or small production (I added actor comps to help me imagine the personality style of each character). I'm working on the next episodes, with the team recruitments (a pair of interns and the Wedding Crashers of Tech), a million-dollar 'Clue' game by a sociopath investor, and of course the final heist at the end of the series.

Current actor comps:

Romeo Valdez - Brandon Larracuente

Kyle Dune - RJ Cyler

Layla Yang - Stephanie Hsu

Wei Auyeung - Jimmy O. Yang

Billy "The Butcher" Butler - Idris Elba

Blake Stevense - Andrew Scott

Ash Jones - Kaitlyn Dever

Comps not in pilot, but in Season 1:

Jimmy Li - Byron Mann

Danny Calloway - Vince Vaughn

Cal Riley - Owen Wilson

John Kim - Nam Joo-hyuk

Tyreese May - Damson Idris

Josh Jette - Glen Powell

Everett Crest - Jamie Foxx

Gerald Ward - JEff Bridges

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Enjoy!

I'm totally overthinking this, but for me it's fun to analyze shit that doesn't need to be.

Bighead's character seems to change pretty rapidly after he's pushed out from Pied Piper and hired to Hooli. In the pilot, he's portrayed as inept, but not dumb, and even seems relatively emotionally intelligent (at least compared to his later scenes).

I'd like to think that the scene where he hears the guys shitting on him might've actually been somewhat earth-shattering to his psyche. And from then on, he turned into the dumb asshole that remained for the rest of the show. After realizing how useless he was to the people he knew for years, especially spoken out loud, his ego shifted completely.

Of course this is all really just based on his much more tame characterization in the pilot. He just sort of seemed like a normal mediocre dude who fell into the tech world on complete accident.