Locked HBO's WESTWORLD Thread (Renewed for Season 2)

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Update: July 22, 2014

Anthony Hopkins, Evan Rachel Wood to Star in WESTWORLD

Anthony Hopkins and Evan Rachel Wood are heading West for HBO and J.J. Abrams. The Silence of the Lambs Oscar winner has been tapped to star in the premium cable network's Abrams-produced Westworld adaptation, which has been formally picked up to pilot, The Hollywood Reporter has learned, with Wood set to co-star. Inspired by Michael Crichton's 1973 film of the same name, the drama is billed as a dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the future of sin.

Hopkins is set to 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 will portray 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.

Abrams will executive produce alongside veteran producer Jerry Weintraub and Bad Robot's Bryan Burk. Person of Interest's Jonathan Nolan, who co-wrote the pilot, will executive produce and direct as well.


HBO Picks Up WESTWORLD Pilot; Anthony Hopkins, Evan Rachel Wood to Star

 

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Update: August 6, 2014

Rodrigo Santoro, Jeffrey Wright and More Join WESTWORLD

HBO's Westworld is flushing out its ranks, adding six cast members to the Anthony Hopkins starrer. Joining Hopkins and Evan Rachel Wood are Rodrigo Santoro (Lost), Jeffrey Wright (Boardwalk Empire), Shannon Woodward (Raising Hope), Ingrid Bolso Berdal (Hercules), Angela Sarafyan (Twilight: Breaking Dawn - Part 2) and Simon Quarterman.

Santoro is set as the terrifying and brutal with a dark sense of humor Harlan Bell, Westworld's perennial "most wanted" bandit. He subscribes to the theory that the West is a wild place, and the only way to survive is to embrace the role of predator. Wright will play Bernard Lowe, the brilliant and quixotic head of the park's programming division. His keen observation of human nature provides him with boundless inspiration for his life's work - creating artificial people.

Woodward, marking her first regular role since Fox's Raising Hope, is Elsie King, a sardonic rising star in the programming division charged with diagnosing the odd quirks of behaviors in the park's hosts. Berdal will portray Armistice, a savage fighter and brutal bandit whose ruthlessness with her victims is surpassed only by her abiding loyalty to her fellow outlaws.

Sarafyan is set as Clementine Pennyfeather, one of Westworld's most popular attractions, every aspect of Clementine is perfectly beguiling, by design. Quarterman rounds out the new additions as Lee Sizemore, the narrative director of Westworld, whose inspired storylines consistently delight or terrify the guests and his artistic temperament consistently grates on his colleagues.


HBO's 'Westworld' Adds Rodrigo Santoro, Jeffrey Wright, Shannon Woodward, and More

 

[Jehannum]

is JJ the lens flare guy? and has Hopkins ever been in a series before?

 

[Black Gi]

West World rocked my world as a kid.

Great film.

 

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Update: August 8, 2014

James Marsden to Star in WESTWORLD; Other New Additions

James Marsden is heading to HBO. The X-Men star has landed a lead role in the dark drama pilot Westworld. Marsden will play Teddy Flood, a mysterious new arrival to a small frontier town. He quickly proves both his charm and his talent with a revolver. His pursuit of a local beauty launches him on a dark odyssey.

Marsden recently starred in Anchorman 2, Lee Daniels' The Butler and 2 Guns, appeared on 30 Rock and Modern Family and next toplines the Nicholas Sparks big-screen adaptation Best of Me, D-Train and Business Trip.

Eddie Rouse (Pandorum, American Gangster) has also joined as "Kissy," short for Kisecawchuck, the laconic American-Indian card and contraband dealer from the town saloon, making him an expert in games both on and off the card table. Other new additions include Demetrius Grosse (Justified), Kyle Bornheimer (She's Out of My League, Bachelorette), Currie Graham (Murder in the First), Lena Georgas (Ray Donovan), Steven Ogg (Grand Theft Auto V) and Timothy Lee DePriest.


James Marsden to Star in WESTWORLD; Eddie Rouse and Kyle Bornheimer Also Star

 

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Update: August 14, 2014

Ed Harris to Play the Key Villain in HBO's WESTWORLD

HBO's Westworld adaptation continues to add to its already impressive cast. Four-time Oscar nominee Ed Harris has landed a pivotal role in the premium cable network's adaptation of the sci-fi hit. Harris (The Hours, Pollock, The Truman Show, Apollo 13) will star as The Man in Black, described as the distillation of pure villainy into one man. Thandie Newton and Miranda Otto has also boarded the sci-fi series.

Newton (Crash) will play Maeve Millay, a beautiful and razor-sharp woman with a genius for reading people and a knack for survival. Maeve is the Westworld madame whose seen-it-all-before worldview is about to be truly challenged.

Otto will play Virginia Pittman, the head of the quality assurance department whose brutal honesty with her colleagues and ruthless efficiency in dealing with malfunctioning "property" have made her a formidable and unpredictable power player in Westworld.


Ed Harris, Thandie Newton and Miranda Otto Join the Cast of HBO's WESTWORLD

 

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Update: August 29, 2014

How HBO's Sci-Fi WESTWORLD Became TV's Hottest Project

HBO's Westworld is building an A-list ensemble cast - despite the fact that most of the actors will play robots. Actually, that's the allure. Based on Michael Crichton's 1973 film and written by Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, the pilot stars Anthony Hopkins in his first series-regular role as an inventor who runs an adult amusement park populated by lifelike robots.

Sources tell The Hollywood Reporter these androids - played by castmembers including James Marsden, Evan Rachel Wood and Thandie Newton - can be killed off and return with completely different personas, allowing actors to play many characters in the same season.

That creative device, one top talent agent says, is helping HBO attract a premier cast (which also includes Ed Harris, Miranda Otto and Jeffrey Wright). And unlike the actors on such anthology series as FX's American Horror Story and HBO's own True Detective, which reboot themselves every season, the cast of Westworld is signing multiyear deals.

"This is built as a series and, in terms of storytelling, I think the rules are definitely being broken," says HBO programming president Michael Lombardo of the sci-fi Western from executive producers J.J. Abrams, Jerry Weintraub and Bryan Burk. "The promise of the show, in terms of where it's going, is exciting to actors, and they want to be a part of this."


How HBO's Sci-Fi WESTWORLD Became TV's Hottest Project; New Details Revealed

 

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Update: December 22, 2014

WESTWORLD Will Be Dark, Subversive Sci-Fi; First Image Released

“It’s a place where you can be whoever you want to be and there are no consequences—no rules, no limitations,” producer Jonathan Nolan says. “What happens in Westworld, stays in Westworld.” Including the plot: Details remain under wraps, but expect Hopkins to play the park’s brilliant creative visionary and Harris to portray a twist on the killer robot gunslinger made famous in the film by Yul Brynner..

“It’s sci-fi but mashed-up with a Western,” says co-creator Lisa Joy. “We get to look backward and forward.” But not as far forward as you might think—the future- shock ideas in the script are largely based on technology that is rapidly becoming more science than fiction.

“What we can tell you is that we intend to make the most ambitious, subversive, f–ked-up television series,” says Nolan. “The things that keep you up at night, any of those things that trouble you—that is exactly what the show is about.”

Jonathan Nolan says 'Westworld' will be dark, subversive sci-fi -- exclusive photo

 

[Nonsense]

Oh my oh my oh my oh my this show was made for me.

 

[JudoThrowFiasco]

Holy crap - what a lineup.

I am excited for this

 

[CantoX]

Jeffrey Wright annoys me

 

[heavyarms21]

Well now this sounds ridiculously promising

 

[Adamant]

This looks interesting. Hopefully it turns out to be good.

 

[Organic Damage]

Jeffrey Wright annoys me

I will find out where you live.

 

[Sycho Sid]

When does this come on? I am pretty certain I need this in my life yesterday.

 

[Tankeray]

When does this come on? I am pretty certain I need this in my life yesterday.

THIIIIIIS.

This sounds fucking incredible.

 

[JAEGERX]

Ed Harris was the bomb on Appaloosa, this sounds decent. could use some Vigo tho

 

[j98]

Firefly 2.0?

 

[Wrath621]

Great lineup!!!

Love me some Thandie Newton

 

[windkick]

Jeffrey Wright annoys me

His voice and everything about him was ridiculously annoying in Boardwalk. Hope he tones that shit down in this show