Loosely based on Michael Crichton's 1973 sci fi film of the same name, Westworld is set in a wild west theme park where robots fulfill human guests' most hedonistic desires until things go wrong. However, HBO president Michael Lombardo said that the series will focus on the robots this time around.
Westworld will star Anthony Hopkins, Evan Rachel Wood, Thandie Newton, James Marsden and Ed Harris. It's being developed for HBO by executive producers J.J. Abrams, Bryan Burk, Jonathan Nolan (The Dark Knight trilogy, Person of Interest) and Lisa Joy (Burn Notice), and is set to debut on HBO in 2016.
One of HBO’s most ambitious upcoming series is, without a doubt, Westworld, inspired by the 1973 Michael Crichton film of the same name. The trailer, released a few weeks back, promises that the series is planning to be as epic and engrossing as HBO’s Game of Thrones, and audiences have been left wondering when the highly-anticipated series would debut.
Wonder no longer, friends, as HBO announced today at their Television Critics Association panel that Westworld will be premiering on Sunday, October 9 on HBO. With the premiere, we’ll be introduced to the series’ stellar cast, which includes Sir Anthony Hopkins, Ed Harris, Evan Rachel Wood, James Marsden, Thandie Newton, Jeffrey Wright, Tessa Thompson, Jimmi Simpson, Luke Hemsworth, and many, many more.
Isn't this show going the same way Game of Throws is and its extreme sex scenes and lots of "adult issues" to be politically correct? Or is the story actually worth watching in this?
On August 02 2016 17:19 Pandemona wrote: Isn't this show going the same way Game of Throws is and its extreme sex scenes and lots of "adult issues" to be politically correct? Or is the story actually worth watching in this?
Not a big fan of GoT but what does political correctness have to do with anything? You remind me of Stewart Lee's nan
On August 02 2016 17:19 Pandemona wrote: Isn't this show going the same way Game of Throws is and its extreme sex scenes and lots of "adult issues" to be politically correct? Or is the story actually worth watching in this?
On August 02 2016 17:19 Pandemona wrote: Isn't this show going the same way Game of Throws is and its extreme sex scenes and lots of "adult issues" to be politically correct? Or is the story actually worth watching in this?
"extreme sex scenes"? Well, I did see some boobs.
This is just a google search and there is so much more here. There was lots of this in the news when they were filming it.
Surely a positive of HBO programming is that it's not politically correct; that it doesn't shy away from dealing with violence, sex, power, etc. Deadwood is an exceptional example of this, with racial slurs being used against everyone from the Chinese to the Norwegians to the Cornish to the Jews, and yet all the characters ending up more interesting/believable as a result.
I don't understand how acknowledging the baser aspects of human nature is politically correct?
I was just saying that it seemed a bit extreme i have nothing against shows like it, Deadwood was also completely different as there was no excessive nudity and crazy stuff in it. Might have been vulgar language but was barely any nudity at least in the dozen episodes i have seen. Where as GOT and this looks like it again pushes the boundaries. I just don't want to watch another show like that where it is basically all about that and the story gets very lost fast.
As I remember it there was a running theme of Al Swearengen doing monologues about the state of the town while receiving oral sex. But maybe you're right about GoT being more extreme. I think it's fair to say that conservative attitudes to sex have almost no representation in Westeros.
On August 03 2016 06:41 Pandemona wrote: I just don't want to watch another show like that where it is basically all about that and the story gets very lost fast.
You've gotta be kidding. GoT's story got lost in 'excessive nudity'? Cersei's walk of shame was totally gratuitous and irrelevant to the narrative right?
"Clocking in at just under two and a half minutes, Season 6’s compilation has less than half the sex scenes as Season 4’s version, which previously held the record as the tamest."
2.5 minutes featuring the human body (including a naked crone and genital warts) ruining 10+ hours of narrative development. So unrealistic and gratuitous! Why should the GoT world be utterly censored according to modern prudishness?
The setting/premise seems kinda ridiculous. Does everybody in America want to be a cowboy? I see a lot of Texans walking around in them hats and boots.
On August 03 2016 10:06 {CC}StealthBlue wrote: Texas is it's own topic, its very own mental asylum one could say. That and the series isn't based on real life western story. It's a SciFi.
I can't really figure out the setting. From the trailer it looks like a mix of Matrix and Wild West? Btw, actually I'd really love to watch a good series with real life western story... :/
On August 03 2016 10:06 {CC}StealthBlue wrote: Texas is it's own topic, its very own mental asylum one could say. That and the series isn't based on real life western story. It's a SciFi.
I can't really figure out the setting. From the trailer it looks like a mix of Matrix and Wild West? Btw, actually I'd really love to watch a good series with real life western story... :/
Hell on Wheels, at least the first season, is pretty cool if you want "serious" Western.
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