The full cast has been revealed for the Westworld HBO series from Jonathan Nolan and JJ Abrams.
If you haven't seen Westworld, Michael Crichton's 1973 sci-fi western, well, fix that as soon as you get a chance. The movie, about an amusement park for adults where lifelike robots make up a cast of western characters that you can fight and also, y'know...that other f-word, is terrific.
It's also perfect for the kind of high-quality, but plenty lurid, drama that HBO loves to serve up.
I mean, c'mon, just look at the official logline for this:
Westworldis a dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the future of sin.
Like I said, there will be plenty of both f-words in this. Also, the robots bleed, so no need to worry about a lack of gore. And so, to nobody's surprise, it's just been given a series order. Westworldcomes from writer/director/executive producer Jonathan Nolan, who we're currently toasting because of Interstellar, as well as JJ Abrams' Bad Robot Productions. Mr. Abrams is working on some little indie movie somewhere, but he also shares executive producer credit with Jerry Weintraub, Bryan Burk, Kathy Lingg, and Athena Wickham.
And here's that full 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.
We won't see Westworld until 2015, sadly. But they've released some appropriately eerie Vines:
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