Set in a future where androids are common and people pay an extraordinary amount of money to go play in a fictional world, Westworld is the latest series offering from HBO.
A theme park for the rich, Westworld is a throw back to a “simpler” time of the wild west where there were no rules and the inhabitants are played by oblivious androids. You pay to do whatever you want to whomever or whatever you want within the closed world, anything goes as long as you pay.
In the first teaser we got the sense that something has gone terribly wrong with the park. Maybe Jurassic Park with androids? Although, I doubt the androids will start eating people but who knows. It’s HBO, anything can happen.
Westworld is inspired by the 1973 film of the same name, written and directed by Michael Crichton (and there’s the Jurassic Park connection) and starring Yul Brenner. So far, from what I’ve been able to tell, the series is keeping the same basic premise as the film. But don’t expect it to keep the same details. First of all, technology has advanced in the past 40 plus years. Second, the HBO series has a 10 episode run which give the creators so much more time to explore the ideas. Third, the character names aren’t even the same between the properties.
Anthony Hopkins plays the Dr. Robert Ford, the seeming creator and owner of this adult playground. Evan Rachel Wood and Thandie Newton play unsuspecting android inhabitants. The rest of the cast includes Ed Harris as The Man in Black, James Marsden, Jeffrey Wright, Tessa Thompson, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Jimmi Simpson, Rodrigo Santoro, Shannon Woodward, Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, Ben Barnes, Simon Quarterman, Angela Sarafyan, Luke Hemsworth and Clifton Collins, Jr.
Honestly, this cast would get me to watch any show or movie even if the premise wasn’t right up my alley. It’s a bonus we get the third Hemsworth brother. Can never have too many Hemsworths, now we just need a movie staring all three of them.
The one-hour drama series Westworld is a dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the evolution of sin. Set at the intersection of the near future and the reimagined past, it explores a world in which every human appetite, no matter how noble or depraved, can be indulged.
Westworld premiers October 2, 2016 at 9pm EST on HBO.
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