Westworld Will Finally Premiere this Fall

By Reuben Levine | May 26, 2016

HBO’s troubled Westworld adaptation will apparently premiere this fall.

Westworld, an adaptation of the bonkers sci-fi film of the same name, was once one of HBO’s most anticipated new shows. After some trouble involving mandated nudity and a lengthy delay, Westworld kind of retreated into the shadows. The showrunner, Johnathon Nolan (Christopher Nolan’s brother) worked on other projects for a time while the mess sort of figured itself out.

Not too long ago it was confirmed that production had restarted on Westworld, and now Variety is reporting that Westworld will actually debut this fall. For real this time. The source is HBO itself, so there’s no crossed-wires here. Unfortunately there is no actual date to speak of, but we’ll take what we can get at this point.

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Hopefully Westworld will prove worthy of the long wait, and it will have to fight to get back some of the hype that has been lost. HBO’s former head of programming, Michael Lombardo, won’t be around to oversee the launch of Westworld, though his replacement, Casey Bloys, will.

If Westworld is successful it could help to carve out a place for serious sic-fi, a genre which, when not outright ignored, has been butchered time and time again on network television. As of right now Westworld is only set to be a single-season mini-series event, much like the upcoming The Night of. If it does well there could be more at some point, though it’s a bit too premature for that particular conversation.

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Westworld has a crazy cast featuring Anthony Hopkins, James Marsden, and Ed Harris among many others. At this point it’s likely that the crew know what sort of pressure there is for this to succeed, and HBO are probably painfully aware of it as well. We’ll see what happens.