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NEW PHOTO AND INFO FOR HBO'S WESTWORLD
Jonathan Nolan teases the series as having "The things that keep you up at night."
23 DEC 2014 BY ANTHONY COUTO
HBO's
Westworld will not only borrow from the original film's concept as a western/sci-fi mashup -- but the dark, subversive series will also showcase the dangers of society's technological advancements.
Plus, we've got a new photo from the series, courtesy of
Entertainment Weekly, below:
Speaking to
EW, executive producer
Jonathan Nolan (The Dark Knight, Person of Interest) discussed Westworld's dangerous, moody tone, teasing, “It’s a place where you can be whoever you want to be and there are no consequences—no rules, no limitations...What happens in Westworld, stays in Westworld.”
EW says the series' technology is "rapidly becoming more science than fiction," while co-creator
Lisa Joy emphasized Westworld's attempt to draw from both past and future aesthetics, stating, "It’s sci-fi but mashed-up with a Western...We get to look backward and forward.”
While Westworld is an amusement park, don't expect the series to be all fun and games. "What we can tell you is that we intend to make the most ambitious, subversive, f–ked-up television series,” teased Nolan. “The things that keep you up at night, any of those things that trouble you—that is exactly what the show is about.”
Based on
Michael Crichton's 1973 film about an amusement park full of robots that go rogue against a group of humans, the HBO version is set to star
Anthony Hopkins,
James Marsden,
Thandie Newton,
Evan Rachel Wood and
Ed Harris (who is expected to play an homage of Yul Brynner's robot gunslinger character). Nolan,
J.J. Abrams(Star Wars: The Force Awakens),
Jerry Weintraub (Ocean's Eleven) and
Bryan Burk(Fringe) are producing.
Westworld is set to premiere in 2015 on HBO. Stay tuned to IGN TV for all news leading up to the series!
http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/12/24/new-photo-and-info-for-hbos-westworld
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