





Back in 1973, amusement parks took on a whole new meaning with the premiere of the Science Fiction feature film Westworld. The first theatrical feature directed by novelist Michael Crichton, the movie stars Yul Brynner as an android in a futuristic Western-themed amusement park who has a bone to pick with two guests of the park, played by Richard Benjamin and James Brolin. HBO has just greenlit today a weekly series based on the Westworld movie.



The series will star 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. Executive producers are J.J. Abrams, Jerry Weintraub, Bryan Burk, Lisa Joy (who also serves as a writer on the series), and Jonathan Nolan (who also serves as a writer as well as director). Co-executive producer is Kathy Lingg with Athena Wickham as producer and Susie Ekins as co-producer. The Westworld series will premiere in 2015.