In a week that’s already seen numerous new cast members added to its line-up HBO’s upcoming TV adaptation of Michael Crichton’s 1973 movie ‘Westworld’ has managed to squeeze in another big credit. ‘Snowpiercer’ and ‘Gravity’ star Ed Harris (below) has signed on to the project to play The Man in Black, “the distillation of pure villainy into one man.” Harris joins Anthony Hopkins (‘Silence of the Lambs’), Evan Rachel Wood, James Marsden (‘X-Men: Days of Future Past’), Jeffrey Wright (‘Source Code’), Demetrius Grosse, Rodrigo Santoro, Shannon Woodward and Ingrid Bolso Berdal amongst many, many others. The project is a co-production between Bad Robot, Jerry Weintraub Productions, Kilter Films and Warner Bros. Television.
Here’s the plot info from the original 1973 movie:
“In a near future, the Delos Company offers the vacation of the future in in the amusement parks Medievalworld, Romanworld and Westworld for U$ 1,000 per day. The vacationers get to experience life in the themed period, doing whatever he or she wants, interacting with the robot inhabitants that populate the parks. Peter Martin and John Blane travel by hovercraft to Westworld and soon Peter duels against a Gunslinger. However, when there is a malfunctioning of the machinery, the robots get out of control, jeopardizing the guests.”
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