HBO Orders Westworld TV Series Pilot

For years, we've heard about attempts to remake Westworld and it's actually happening this time. HBO has officially committed to a pilot order for a potential Westworld TV series.

Jonathan Nolan, brother of Christopher Nolan, will direct the pilot and will co-write the script with Lisa Joy, according to Variety. This is a Bad Robot production, so J.J. Abrams will serve as an executive producer, along with Jonathan Nolan, Lisa Joy, Bryan Burk, and Jerry Weintraub

The series has been described as a "dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the future of sin." Keep in mind that HBO has only committed to the pilot at this point, so the strength of that episode will determine if this gets a full series order.

The 1973 sci-fi movie was directed and written by Michael Crichton, and starred Richard Benjamin, James Brolin, Alan Oppenheimer, Dick Van Patten, and Yul Brynner:

"Welcome to West World, Crichton's futuristic Disneyland for adults, a remote resort island where, for a hefty fee, you can indulge in your wildest fantasies in one of three convincing robot-run worlds: lusty Roman World, chivalrous Medieval World or lawless West World. It's in West World that things run amok, though, as businessmen John Blane (Brolin) and Peter Martin (Benjamin) face a murderous robot gunslinger (Brynner), among other dangers."