Instead of remaking the 1973 Westworld, THR reports that HBO is turning it into a new series!
Says the site, Silence of the Lambs and The Wolfman‘s Anthony Hopkins, pictured above, is toping the series alongside “True Blood’s” Evan Rachel Wood, pictured below.
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. In it, a robot malfunction creates havoc and terror for unsuspecting vacationers at a futuristic, adult-themed amusement park.
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.
J.J. Abrams is executive producing alongside veteran producer Jerry Weintraub and Bad Robot’s Bryan Burk. “Person of Interest’s” Jonathan Nolan co-wrote, executive produced and directed the pilot. Lisa Joy co-wrote the pilot and exec produces.
