{"id":71260,"date":"2015-01-26T17:11:34","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T17:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=71260"},"modified":"2015-01-26T17:12:24","modified_gmt":"2015-01-26T17:12:24","slug":"westword-first-look-at-ed-harris-gunslinger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/westword-first-look-at-ed-harris-gunslinger\/","title":{"rendered":"Westworld first look at Ed Harris’ gunslinger"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"WESTWORLD\"<\/a>HBO’s Westworld<\/em><\/strong> remake has started to tease out a few details here and there, and now EW<\/a> have a new picture of Ed Harris as the Gunslinger and a new interview with writers Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, who tease out a few details.<\/p>\n

Nolan explains that the series will have the opportunity to go much deeper than Crichton’s movie. “What you feel in the film is there\u2019s this larger world\u00a0that he barely has time to explore. It leaves you breathless.\u00a0Westworld<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0goes from one f\u2013king massive idea to the next,” he said. “The film has a structure that barrels forward\u2014there\u2019s this unstoppable android hellbent on vengeance\u2014and it preceded\u00a0The\u00a0Terminator<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0by 10 years.”<\/p>\n

Lisa Joy added “in a TV series, you can really take a novelistic approach and explore characters that you wouldn\u2019t ordinarily see, in a level of complexity that you wouldn\u2019t ordinarily get to explore just out of the sheer time constraints in a feature. I think we\u2019re very much looking forward to taking all those possibilities and exploding out.”<\/p>\n

The pair stressed the need for secrecy, which isn’t surprising given that it’s co-written by a Nolan and produced by JJ Abrams. “Our commitment is preserving the old-fashioned audience experience,” he said. “[We want you to] come\u00a0in knowing as little as possible. What we can tell you is that we intend to make the most ambitious, subversive, f\u2013ked up television series.”<\/p>\n

The pair reveal that the series will go outside the park, and that Westworld is “a place where\u00a0you can be whoever the f\u2013k you want to be and there are no consequences.” Joy also points out the timeliness of the endeavour, given Stephen Hawking’s recent warnings about developments in AI. “A lot of the people in the tech world who\u00a0are\u00a0actively pursuing the creation of AI are\u00a0also, ironically, actively sounding the alarm bells of what that\u00a0landscape would look like,” she explains. “I think it\u2019s definitely part of the cultural conversation in a way that people can relate to it a lot more and see the kind of edges of this coming to fruition…I think we\u2019re standing at an interesting precipice from\u00a0which to both view the future and to hypothesize about the future. I think that all of that new information will help add new dimensions to this world.”<\/p>\n

Westworld<\/em><\/strong>‘s incredible cast includes Anthony Hopkins, Evan Rachel Wood, James Marsden, Jeffrey Wright, Thandie Newton, Ingrid Bols\u00f8 Berdal, Rodrigo Santoro and Miranda Otto. We’re a bit excited.<\/p>\n

Westworld<\/em> will air on HBO this year. Keep up with the latest sci-fi news with the new issue of SciFiNow<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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