The Official "Westworld" Season 1 Thread

[Tical]

This has been known. They shut down back in October. It's just breaking in the trades now though. They restart in mid Feb and JJ Abrams (who is exec producing) said last week it'll be out by Summer.

 

[FlyRy]

Come on Nolan's brother

 

[Jello Biafra]

If it is just a shut down to get ahead on the script writing and things will be back on track by March then cool. Hopefully they aren't hiding some major behind the scenes issues that could derail the show though.

 

[Lootpack]

Apparently HBO ordered additional episodes for season one.

Also, with additional episodes ordered, HBO’s upcoming Westworld was awarded additional $4 million in tax credits on top of the $12 million in incentives it received last June.

‘Scream Queens’ ‘Good Girls Revolt’ & ‘American Horror Story’ Among 9 TV Projects Awarded California Tax Credits

 

[Tical]

They started back up this week. I believe they have 7 episodes in the can. Original order was for 10, no idea how many more they ordered.

 

[EzekelRAGE]

http://deadline.com/2016/04/lili-simmons-cast-westworld-hbo-drama-series-resumes-production-1201733075/

Lili Simmons (Banshee, True Detective), has joined the cast of new HBO drama series Westworld in a recurring role. Production on Westworld, which was halted in January, has resumed.

A reimagining of the classic Michael Crichton film, Westworld is a mashup of theme-park setting and animatronics with science fiction and Wild West iconography. It’s described as “a dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the future of sin.” Simmons will portray Abigail, who works in the park and uses her good looks and charm to lure Westworld guests into the saloon. She is currently filming, having started her stint just as production was being stopped so the writing team led by Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy can work on the remaining four scripts.

Simmons has been on the radar of HBO casting executives for a while with her guest arc on the first season of True Detective and her co-starring role on Banshee for sibling Cinemax. She also has Wild West credentials with her role in the 2015 feature Bone Tomahawk. Simmons is repped by UTA, manager Kate Linden and attorney Stuart Rosenthal.

Westworld hails from Bad Robot Productions, Jerry Weintraub Productions and Kilter Films in association with Warner Bros TV. Nolan is executive producer/writer/director with executive producer/writer Joy, along with exec producers J.J. Abrams, Jerry Weintraub and Bryan Burk.

 

[Tical]

Filming wrapped this week. Looking at HBO's schedule I think this will premiere in September. Wouldn't be surprised if we got a first full trailer on one of the next few Sundays attached to an episode of GoT. They'll probably promo this at Comic Con in July as well.

 

[Dominic Brehetto]

I need this now

 

[Tical]

Fall premiere confirmed

 

[Lootpack]

 

[FlyRy]

 

[Tical]

'Westworld’ footage wows ATX Festival

HBO showed an extended trailer of its mysterious sci-fi Western drama Westworld at the ATX Television Festival on Saturday and the audience was hugely impressed.

The trailer, which was set to The Rolling Stones’ classic “Paint It Black,” included intense Western action along with horrifyingly creepy sci-fi moments. The premise turns Michael Crichton’s original 1973 film version of Westworld on its head – instead of human theme park patrons being terrorized by ultra-realistic humanoid robots run amuck, the series has its the artificially intelligent robots taking center stage as they’re used and abused humanity’s darkest impulses.

“Our show is about the robots who don’t realize they’re in a fake Western,” says showrunner Jonathan Nolan, who was on a panel with fellow writer-producer Lisa Joy.

Much of the trailer focused on Evan Rachel Wood, a woman in the Old West who gradually realizes her reality is false. Anthony Hopkins plays Dr. Robert Ford, the creative director of Westworld, and one haunting exchange between the two had Wood’s character innocently asking if they were friends, and Hopkins explaining that’s not what they are at all. Another shot had androids trapped in a torturous chamber.

After the trailer screened, Justified showrunner Graham Yost commented, “There’s a part of me that ached with envy [watching the trailer]. But I cannot wait to see that show.”

Jonathan Nolan credited HBO’s lavishly produced Game of Thrones for pulling off the show, which was delayed for months before being scheduled for this fall.

“It was actually Game of Thrones that made us feel like we could pull this off,” Nolan said. “We actually pitched this as making Days of Heaven and Alien simultaneously and then cutting them together. Game of Thrones was the inspiration for this. Thrones had this commitment to practical production value, which is not necessarily whats in vogue these days … [Westworld] had to have this big scope.”

Westworld was first announced two years ago and was beset by recasting and production delays which have caused some in the industry to wonder about the show’s prospects. But the last HBO drama to have such a tortured development process eventually became the network’s biggest hit – Game of Thrones.

Last month, HBO confirmed Westworld would debut in the fall with a 10-episode first season.

 

[jay211]

Fingers crossed this is a hit. Game of Thrones had production/development problems before it aired too and it became HBO's biggest hit. Maybe history will repeat itself.

 

[hex]

'Westworld’ footage wows ATX Festival

I need this trailer right now.

Fred.

 

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