Westworld Opens This Fall on HBO
Steve Barton
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It’s been a rocky road for HBO’s “Westworld,” but it finally sounds like things are back on track. According to Variety, HBO has slated the show for a fall premiere, following delays that temporarily halted production on the series earlier this year.
HBO shut down production of “Westworld” in January after the project fell behind schedule — previously having been slated to wrap production two months prior. Filming resumed three months later.
No specific premiere date has been set.
Production delays on “Westworld” were among a series of recent hitches in HBO’s scripted development that preceded this week’s departure of Michael Lombardo from his role as programming president of the network. Miniseries “Lewis & Clark,” from producers Tom Hanks, Brad Pitt, and Edward Norton, suspended production in August and was put into redevelopment. HBO pulled the plug on drama series “Utopia” from David Fincher that same month and later scrapped plans for comedy “Brothers in Atlanta” from “Saturday Night Live” producer Lorne Michaels, after it was previously given a series order.
This week HBO tapped development executive Casey Bloys to succeed Lombardo as programming president.
Based on the film by Michael Crichton, “Westworld” stars Anthony Hopkins, Ed Harris, Evan Rachel Wood, James Marsden, Thandie Newton, and Jeffrey Wright in a dark drama about the dawn of artificial intelligence. The series hails from Bad Robot Productions, Jerry Weintraub Productions, and Kilter Films in association with Warner Bros. Television. Jonathan Nolan serves as executive producer, writer, and director on the project, with Lisa Joy writing and executive producing. J.J. Abrams, Jerry Weintraub, and Bryan Burk also executive produce.
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