Since it was announced, "Westworld" has proved to be an option intriguing as the likely replacement of "Game of thrones", who must vacate the seat of a high production of HBO after the next two and last seasons. This is because the new series created by Jonathan Nolan ("Person of interest") and produced by J. J. Abrams ("Lost" and "Star Wars: the Awakening of The Force"), that mix the old west and fiction relevant scientific, it seemed the opposite to the fantasy and the magic of its predecessor. After watching the pilot, it is possible to say that the production is still intrigue, but for all the right reasons. the Watch the trailer in the video above.
Despite the apparent differences, the series, which debuted in Brazil on October 2, shares many of the elements responsible for the success of the adaptation of the books of George R. R. Martin. In addition to the budget of overproduction, visible already in the trailers, it is possible to observe the numerous cores of the characters, the questions that surpass the barriers of genres and the various narrative lines that guarantee the curiosity of the viewer.
All of this based on a movie kind of rough 1973 that has reached cult status in recent years exactly by what could have been. Directed by Michael Crichton, the author of the book that originated the "Jurassic Park" (1993), the original long portrays a theme park that reproduces the old american west with the help of robots, which suffer a crash-critical and begin to kill the guests.
The new version, at any given time, it gives to understand that it may be a sequence of the film, prefers to focus more on the relationship between the mechanical beings, called "hosts", and customers of the site. With this, it gives clues to a future debate about consciousness and what makes us human. All this, of course, under a guise filled with the classic violence of the old west and the nakedness, a mark of the channel.
If this is one of the main forces of production, can also be one of its greatest weaknesses. The brother of filmmaker Christopher Nolan, Jonathan has already shown the skill of a juggler in dealing with many balls in the air in the scripts of movies such as "The big trick" (2006) and "Amnesia" (2000), but are also complicated to face the elements too, as in "Interstellar" (2014).
And Abrams may have if redeemed in the last few years to revitalize the franchise "Star Trek" and "Star Wars" in theaters, but fans of the series still have not overcome the problems of the end of "Lost".
Already in the matter of the performances, the public need not worry. The producers gathered one of the best casts ever presented in a TV series. Anthony Hopkins ("The silence of the lambs") gives a dignity necessary to the creator of the robots, which seems to be slowly questioning her own humanity (or losing health), and Ed Harris ("Marks of violence") builds a guest scary as the villain more obvious in this series in that it is difficult to determine who is good and who is bad.
The two veterans are still supported by names such as the excellent Jeffrey Wright ("007 – Casino Royale"), Evan Rachel Wood ("Everything for power"), James Marsden ("X-Men"), who repeats his classic role of the loser, Thandie Newton ("the pursuit of happiness"), and Rodrigo Santoro, as a host and can even be programmed as a villain, but that may suffer large consequences in the future.
Supported by the strength of its cast and the idea original, "Westworld" has the potential to become an heir worthy of "Game of thrones" and ensure many awards — and audience — on Sunday nights for HBO. The channel just need to take care with their own ambitions — for, following the example of the original film, not to lose control of his own creation.
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