HBO ORDERS WESTWORLD TO SERIES
Logline: WESTWORLD is a dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the future of sin.
Format: One-hour drama.
Production Companies: Bad Robot Productions, Jerry Weintraub Productions and Kilter Films in association with Warner Bros. Television.
Executive Producer/Writer/Director: Jonathan Nolan.
Executive Producer/Writer: Lisa Joy.
Executive Producers: J.J. Abrams, Jerry Weintraub, Bryan Burk.
Co-Executive Producer: Kathy Lingg.
Producer: Athena Wickham.
Co-Producer: Susie Ekins.
Inspired by the motion picture “Westworld,” written and directed by Michael Crichton.
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Ed Harris, Evan Rachel Wood, James Marsden, Thandie Newton, Jeffrey Wright, Miranda Otto, Rodrigo Santoro, Shannon Woodward, Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, Angela Sarafyan, Simon Quarterman.
Logline: WESTWORLD is a dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the future of sin.
Format: One-hour drama.
Production Companies: Bad Robot Productions, Jerry Weintraub Productions and Kilter Films in association with Warner Bros. Television.
Executive Producer/Writer/Director: Jonathan Nolan.
Executive Producer/Writer: Lisa Joy.
Executive Producers: J.J. Abrams, Jerry Weintraub, Bryan Burk.
Co-Executive Producer: Kathy Lingg.
Producer: Athena Wickham.
Co-Producer: Susie Ekins.
Inspired by the motion picture “Westworld,” written and directed by Michael Crichton.
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Ed Harris, Evan Rachel Wood, James Marsden, Thandie Newton, Jeffrey Wright, Miranda Otto, Rodrigo Santoro, Shannon Woodward, Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, Angela Sarafyan, Simon Quarterman.
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Here is a Teaser Video
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— HBO (@HBO) November 17, 2014
Anything on HBO is a good promise to me.
ReplyDeleteI would love to hear good news about the musical period drama from Terence Winter and company. Still, I'm very happy about Westworld. Great cast :-)
Finally! I was really hoping HBO was going to pick this up since it has such a top notch cast and really interesting premise. Also, more Bad Robot and Jonathan Nolan is always a plus. So excited for this!
ReplyDeleteWeekly doses of Anthony Hopkins and Ed Harris?
ReplyDeleteI'm in... It's a no brainer!
The show has already been ordered to series! It's coming in 2015.
ReplyDeleteWait... wasn't there a different source link a few minutes ago? XD
ReplyDeleteGreat news!
This sounds pretty damn great. HBO had a few years of transition after The Sopranos and (for me, anyway) FX really took over as the network to beat in terms of quality in recent years... but HBO has had a great resurgence in the last little while (The Leftovers, Veep, The Comeback, etc.) and they've got a ton of promising shows coming up. Very excited for this.
ReplyDeleteI am thrilled this got picked up! Sounds very interesting, definitely something I would watch.The cast alone is a reason to watch.
ReplyDeleteYay. I'm glad to hear. However, I really hope this doesn't negatively impact the chances of that Egyptian alien drama, as that sounds a bit more intriguing. But again, yay! Sounds very...strange. Which I like. :)
ReplyDeleteWhat alien drama?
ReplyDeleteSO excited for this!
ReplyDeleteI heard something about Ridley Scott doing a drama about ancient aliens in Egypt, but I never heard anything after that first pitch.
ReplyDeletethat's to long away....lol
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure but I think its called Pharaoh
ReplyDeleteThe Ridley Scott one. :)
ReplyDeleteThe cast is brilliant and i would watch anything with Anthony Hopkins.
ReplyDeleteI don't mean to be glib but... well duh. With the cast that this pilot managed to assemble it would have to be a total disaster for HBO to say no to this.
ReplyDeleteAm I the only person worried that this show will just be Anthony Hopkins in a Western/Roman theme park? The actors are good but is the writing going to be so well done that I can believe the 'characters' and not just see famous people all competing for Emmy worthy moments in a 10 ep(?) show.
ReplyDeleteJonah Nolan as EP? Wow!! And the cast is stellar to say the least. Definitely checking this out.
ReplyDeleteConcern: I wonder if Person of Interest will be affected by Jonah working on Westworld as EP. After all, he is part of the two man EP team of POI and the episodes written by him are simply amazing.
"The future of sin"? It's going to take more than Anthony Hopkins to get me past that pompous logline.
ReplyDeleteCouldn't imagine HBO not picking this up,not with this cast. I'm psyched!
ReplyDeleteYES! Finally! :D
ReplyDeleteIt's based on a film originally written by Michael Crichton (this might be the first someone successfully blends sci-fi and the wild west). It also has James Marsden, Rodrigo Santoro, Jefferey Wright, and Evan Rachel Wood to name a few other BIG names!
ReplyDeleteI'm feeling like this:
ReplyDeleteEven in a worst case scenario, chances are this will still be better than the majority of scripted shows on broadcast TV and half of basic cable. So, no. I'm not worried.
ReplyDeleteI had been waiting for this show to get picked up for so long. I'm finding myself watching a lot of HBO lately, The Leftovers, Game of Thrones, True Detective, The Comeback and now this. Can't wait!
ReplyDeleteLOL! I laughed so hard i started choking!
ReplyDeleteWho will be casted as the.............."Gunslinger"? I wouldn't want to be the casting director for this one, because the "Gunslinger" was originally played by the "legendary great"..........................Yul Brynner! Nobody 4 NOW!!!
ReplyDeleteI think he is only checking up on POI from time to time because he is also making another sci fi tv show with HBO called Foundation...
ReplyDeleteYes, I'm so excited. It's going to be amazing.
ReplyDeleteAn Expy of the Gunslinger is believed to be Ed Harris' "The Man in Black"
ReplyDeleteCool. Cool cool cool. :)
ReplyDeleteI'm most excited for Jeffrey Wright who is always a gem of an actor and James Marsden who I feel never really gets his due.
ReplyDeleteDoes anyone know how many episodes?
ReplyDeletePerson of Interest, Westworld, and I read somewhere he's adapting Asimov's 'Foundation'. If that gets picked up, that'll be 3 shows by Jonathan Nolan!
ReplyDeleteHBO drama series are usually 10 - 12 episodes, I guess with Westworld looking like it might be quite a huge production then 10 episodes seems quite likely.
ReplyDeleteGreat, looking forward to seeing what they've done with the concept.
ReplyDeleteSo is Thandie Newton done with Rogue?
ReplyDeleteSorry, just realized it's a Bad Robot production (not that with that logline it should surprise, so not only have they invented the discussion on the nature of good and evil and philosophy all via pseudo intellectual rambling, but now they've invented sin).
ReplyDeleteYeah, that's a big hole to climb out of for me. And none of those other cast members are big enough draws (or really that big at all). :-) A great cast can't fix a bad script/premise...Anthony Hopkins couldn't save Beowulf, Alexander, Hearts in Atlantis--crap has he done anything good since Proof?
But, really, you don't think The Dark Tower or even Firefly combined westerns and sci-fi?
It is from Bad Robot, but the fact that Jonathan Nolan (and his wife writer Lisa Joy) is show running/writing/directing a chunk of it and that it's on HBO, suggest to me that it will be one of Bad Robot's darker pursuits/explorations. Jonathan Nolan is often the pen behind Christopher Nolan's work and if anyone is a kind of modern day Hitchcock with great physiological thrillers like Momento, The Prestige, and Inception, it's the Nolan Bros.
ReplyDeleteAs long as you're still breathing...
ReplyDeleteI have not Caught Season 2 yet so I have no idea whether or not anything happens to her character, but I saw Rogue was renewed for Season 3 and 4 by DirecTV a few months ago.
ReplyDeletehttp://deadline.com/2014/08/rogue-renewed-two-seasons-directv-818220/
And if Anyone else missed this, Jonathan Nolan is also doing another series for HBO (w/out Abrams)...he's adapting the amazing Fountain Trilogy
ReplyDeletehttp://screenrant.com/jonathon-nolan-foundation-tv-show-hbo/
HBO has so many shows that I can't wait to see!!!
ReplyDeleteWestworld (Nolan/Joy/Abrams/Weinthraub - remake)
Fountain (Jonathan Nolan - trilogy novel adaptation)
Pharaoh (Ridly Scott - Astronaut Theory)
Ashecliff (Scorsese/Lehane - Shutter Island Prequel)
Untiled 1970's Rock 'n Roll Drama (Scorsese/Winter/Jagger)
His role sounds good here. He is very underrated.
ReplyDeleteBecause it's genre, I'm thinking 10.
ReplyDeleteWas confused by the "Foundation" one until I Googled and figured out what you meant exactly. :P But that sounds pretty good, I will have to read those books!
ReplyDeleteA few years ago HBO never would have more than one fantasy drama at a time IMO so I'm glad the mainstream view of the genre has changed, at least now there's a chance to see all of those make it to air. :)
Opps! Ya, sorry, my bad!
ReplyDeleteI think we have very different tastes. :-) Having The Dark Knight Rises on your resume is a huge black mark for me and The Prestige and Inception don't help much. Darkness in and of itself isn't a pro or con for me. I want well-written and thought out the tone can follow after.
ReplyDeleteSame here but i doubt it would survive without Grace so i guess the 4th season will be its last? Hope not. Grace is too batshit not to have on tv.
ReplyDeleteHa! XD
ReplyDeleteYeah I like her character.... and the show overall.
I believe at least two characters have descriptions that peg them as Villains....
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I believe Rodrigo Santoro is the initial "Bad Android", but Ed Harris' character description also makes it sounds like he is also really bad... (I thought I also read somewhere that his character torments the androids, but can't find the article)
..."Santoro will play Harlan Bell, Westworld’s perennial “Most Wanted” bandit;"http://deadline.com/2014/08/jeffrey-wright-rodrigo-santoro-more-join-hbo-drama-pilot-westworld-815575/
"Harris will play The Man in Black — the distillation of pure villainy into one man."http://deadline.com/2014/08/ed-harris-to-star-in-westworld-hbo-pilot-817466/
Fun Stephen King and double LOST reference there. I also think I saw that Harris got a gig on another show too, so I'm not sure how his schedule will be working out and/or if that's a sign his character will be short lived????