Fresh Images of Westworld Mosey On In
With that other more bitey Michael Crichton property currently swallowing record amounts of cash at the box office you would have thought that there would at least be a panel for the upcoming HBO reboot of Westworld at Comic Con.
Sadly it's been a little quiet on the western front of late but that didn't stop Executive Producer Jonathan Nolan taking some time during the panel for his other TV series, Person Of Interest, to show off a Con-only trailer and some brand new images of the robo-western.
Based on the 1973 film written and directed by Michael Crichton two decades before he wrote Jurassic Park, the reboot looks to expand on the theme of man paying to live out its wildest fantasies...until the A.I goes on bit squiffy and everything takes a turn for the dead.
“People who come into this place are looking for — and this is the irony of it — the authentic experience. They’re looking for not the virtual version, but the real version, the tactile version,” Nolan has said about his show. “Interestingly we’ve arrived at what the original film created — fully immersive virtual worlds. 'What happens in Westworld stays in Westworld.' It’s a place where you can be whoever the f**k you want to be and there are no consequences. No rules, no limitations."
The cast includes Anthony Hopkins, Ed Harris, Thandie Newton, Evan Rachel Wood, Miranda Otto, James Marsden and Jeffrey Wright.
While no confirmed date was offered at the convention, the show has been moved from a theorised 2015 launch to next year.
