The androids at the adult amusement park Westworld began to think for themselves one day, with murderous results. In the late Michael Crichton's 1973 directorial debut Westworld, the beginning of independent artificial intelligence means the end for some humans. Inspired by Crichton's film and also titled Westworld, HBO's upcoming pilot just added Ed Harris to its A-list cast.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Ed Harris has signed on to play a villain in HBO's Westworld, described as "a dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the future of sin." Harrris will play a character called "The Man in Black", described as "the distillation of pure villainy into one man." The cast also includes Anthony Hopkins, Evan Rachel Wood, James Marsden, Shannon Woodward, and Jeffrey Wright. We have the backgrounds of the other core characters (via The Hollywood Reporter):
"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.
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.
Woodward... is Elsie King, a sardonic rising star in the programming division charged with diagnosing the odd quirks of behaviors in the park's hosts.
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."
In addition to the core cast, Rodrigo Santoro, Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, Angela Sarafyan, Simon Quarterman, Eddie Rouse, Demetrius Grosse, Kyle Bornheimer, Currie Graham, Lena Georgas, Steven Ogg, and Timothy Lee DePriest are also attached to the pilot, which was co-written by Person of Interest's Jonathan Nolan along with Lisa Joy. J. J. Abrams, Jerry Weintraub, Bad Robot's Bryan Burk, and Lisa Joy are executive producing. We'll keep Daily Dead readers updated on this project as it develops.
Raised on a steady diet of R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps books and Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Derek has been fascinated with fear since he first saw ForeverWare being used on an episode of Eerie, Indiana.
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