Currently in production for HBO is the series Westworld based on the novel by Michael Crichton about an amusement park for adults where all the members of staff are robots. Each part of the park is dedicated to a different era, Weastworld being just one of them.
Dr Robert Ford is the creative director and chairman of the board whilst Dolores Abernathy is a farm girl in Westworld who doesn’t realise initially that she is a robot.
Made into a brilliant movie in 1973 with an iconic performance by Yul Brynner as cowboy robot who goes rogue there is no word on whether this will make it into the movie or not but interest in the series will be high.
More info will be added as it comes in.
production details
USA / HBO – Bad Robot – Warner Bros TV / 2016 (In production)
Novel: Michael Crichton / Executive Producer, writer and director: Jonathan Nolan / Executive Producer and Writer: Lisa Joy / Executive Producers: J.J. Abrams, Jerry Weintraub, Bryan Burk / Co-Executive Producer: Kathy Lingg / Producer: Athena Wickham / Co-Producer: Susie Ekins
cast
Anthony Hopkins as Dr. Robert Ford, the founder of Westworld, who has an uncompromising vision for the park and its evolution
Ed Harris as The Man in Black, the distillation of pure villainy into one man
Evan Rachel Wood as Dolores Abernathy, a provincial rancher’s daughter who starts to discover her idyllic existence is an elaborately constructed lie
James Marsden as Teddy Flood, a new arrival with a close and recurring bond with Dolores
Thandie Newton as Maeve Millay, a madam with a knack for survival
Jeffrey Wright as Bernard Lowe, the brilliant and quixotic head of Westworld’s programming division
Tessa Thompson
Sidse Babett Knudsen
Jimmi Simpson
Rodrigo Santoro
Shannon Woodward
Ingrid Bolsø Berdal
Ben Barnes
Simon Quarterman
Angela Sarafyan
Luke Hemsworth
Clifton Collins, Jr.
