Anthony Hopkins and Evan Rachel Wood are taking their talents to premium cable. The pair signed to star in “Westworld,” J.J. Abrams and Jerry Weintraub‘s forthcoming HBO pilot based on Michael Crichton’s 1973 film, TheWrap has confirmed.
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The original film, which starred Yul Brynner, Richard Benjamin and James Brolin, was based around deadly robots at a Wild West-themed amusement park. In the series Hopkins is set to star as Dr. Robert Ford, the theme park’s unconventional creative director, while Wood will co-star as a farm girl named Dolores Abernathy, who may or may not be a robot herself.