Westworld HBO series

[Natrix]

https://www.deadline.com/2014/07/an...an-hbo/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

After True Detective, toplined by Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson, the casting bar for HBO‘s new drama series is pretty high. Enter the pay cable network’s pilot Westworld, which has locked in Oscar winner Anthony Hopkins and Evan Rachel Wood for lead roles. The project, inspired by Michael Crichton’s 1973 sci-fi movie set at an amusement park, hails from from J.J. Abrams‘ Bad Robot, Person Of Interest creator Jonathan Nolan, writer Lisa Joy Nolan, producer Jerry Weintraub and Warner Bros TV. It landed at HBO a year ago with one of the biggest commitments ever for the premium network, a pilot production commitment, and now has been officially green lighted to pilot with Hopkins and Wood on board. Described as a dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the future of sin, the series will keep the setting of the movie, which starred Yul Brynner, Richard Benjamin and James Brolin and introduced new digital visual techniques.

In his first TV series role, Hopkins will play Dr. Robert Ford, the brilliant, taciturn and complicated creative director, chief programmer and chairman of the board of Westworld who has an uncompromising creative vision for the park — and unorthodox methods of achieving it. Wood plays the provincial, beautiful and kind Dolores Abernathy, the quintessential farm girl of the frontier West — who is about to discover that her entire idyllic existence is an elaborately constructed lie. Also in talks for a lead role in the pilot is James Marsden. This marks Wood’s return to HBO where she had a recurring role on True Blood and co-starred in the miniseries Mildred Pierce. Husband-and-wife duo Jonah and Lisa Joy Nolan wrote the script and are executive producing Westworld with Abrams, Weintraub and Bryan Burk. Jonah also will direct.

 

[Darth Snoopy]

Interesting. I remember seeing Westworld on Saturday Morning Creature Feature!

 

[The Ween]

They tried this back in the 80's and it didn't work so it will be interesting to see how this one does.

 

[Darth Snoopy]

I barely remember that series, if nothing else the SFX will be better than the 80's version!

 

[EVILFACE]

Love the first movie. Will be down for this.

 

[VintijDroidGutzz]

The first movie is the ****.

The rest?

 

[EVILFACE]

Futureworld is a decent sequel.

Never watched the show.

 

[Deckard]

Still no date for this but a little peak.

 

[spindrift]

Hopkins?? Wow- total surprise- original film is great. Chrichton was a genious of sorts- look at his bio.

 

[batfan08]

A new trailer has been released:

 

[GeneralZodLives]

I'm looking forward to this show.

 

[astrocreep1428]

This looks amazing. Can't believe more people aren't talking about this. Bring on the figures already!

 

[EVILFACE]

It does look pretty kewl. My woman will be watching this but doesn't wanna see the original....

 

[astrocreep1428]

I really dig the original. A bit dated now but visually groundbreaking at that time. It's a good movie. Crichton was one smart dude.

 

[Sweet Rabbit]

This might be pretty good

 

[fistfulmetal]

You also can't forget Yul Brynner as the gunslinger in the original movie. I'll definitely be checking the show out.

 

[spindrift]

Big screen quality- so a different take on the plot I think

 

[Magpie 7]

I can't wait to see if Ed Harris's Gunslinger can live up to Yul Brynner's, when I watched the film as a kid I thought Brynner's Gunslinger was by far more scary than Vader, Michael Myers or Freddy Kreuger

 

[Johnny Utah]

Ed Harris is human in this, not a robot. He's just been playing the game for so long he's become a badass looking for fun.

 

[Iggyrox]

This and Luke Cage dropping this weekend. Too much excite!