Despite Production Problems and Tawdry Controversy, HBO Sets ‘Westworld’ Premiere

Westworld finally gets a premiere date! Well, a vague one at least. The HBO series from husband-and-wife team Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan has been plagued by delays, production halts, and controversy, but it is supposedly going to debut this fall.

The futuristic drama dealing with an amusement park populated by artificial intelligent robots may have you yelling, “Simpsons did it!” And you’d be right — Itchy and Scratchy Land was a parody of the 1973 Michael Crichton original. This new version will star huge names like Anthony Hopkins, Ed Harris, Evan Rachel Wood, and Jeffrey Wright. Bad Robot Productions, Jerry Weintraub Productions, and Kilter Films in association with Warner Bros. Television are all producers on the project.

You may remember first hearing about the series in September 2015, when a Central Casting notice went out for background actors that would appear “fully nude; wear a pubic hair patch; perform genital-to-genital touching; have your genitals painted; contort to form a table-like shape while being fully nude;” and the list only gets worse from there. Clearly, Westworld is trying to put fellow HBO drama Game of Thrones to shame… shame, SHAME!

The show also made headlines earlier this year when filming got so far behind that the network decided to put the series on a brief hiatus. Production resumed two months later and there have been no reports of problems, or people being used as tables, since.

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