Westworld, 1973. Directed by Michael Crichton. Starring Richard Benjamin, Yul Brynner, James Brolin, Alan Oppenheimer, Victoria Shaw, Linda Gaye Scott. SYNOPSIS: At a holiday amusement park in the future, the robotic creations malfunction and start to operate on their own. Isn’t it great that we now live in an era where a lot of the […]
4K Ultra HD Review – Westworld (1973)
Westworld, 1973. Directed by Michael Crichton. Starring Yul Brynner, Richard Benjamin, and James Brolin. SYNOPSIS: Westworld, Michael Crichton’s 1973 theatrical debut as a director that was turned into a wildly inconsistent HBO series a few years ago, gets the Arrow Video treatment. If you’re a fan, you’ll appreciate the physical swag included here, along with […]
HBO adapting Michael Crichton’s Sphere as TV series
After enjoying critical success with Westworld, HBO is looking to bring another of writer Michael Crichton’s sci-fi works to the small screen with a TV adaptation of his 1987 novel Sphere. Denise Thé, a writer and executive producer on season three of Westworld, is set to serve as showrunner on the Sphere series, while Westworld […]
Blu-ray Review – Runaway (1984)
Runaway, 1984. Directed by Michael Crichton. Starring Tom Selleck, Cynthia Rhodes, Gene Simmons, Kirstie Alley, G.W. Bailey, Joey Cramer, and Stan Shaw. SYNOPSIS: In the near future, where robots have integrated with humans, a madman starts reprogramming the machines to turn against the human race. There is nothing more certain to date a movie than […]
Westworld Season 1 Episode 1 Review – ‘The Original’
Tony Black reviews the first episode of Westworld… Given the end of Game of Thrones is a year or two at most away around the corner, HBO is banking a lot on Westworld to fill a void, not just of multi-million dollar, event series television, but also that heightened level of mythology and intrigue the […]
DreamWorks adapting Michael Crichton’s Micro
The Hollywood Reporter has revealed that DreamWorks has picked up the movie rights to the late Michael Crichton’s (Jurasssic Park) techno-thriller novel Micro, which was published posthumously in 2011. “We are so pleased to have this opportunity to develop Micro,” said DreamWorks’ Steven Spielberg. “For Michael, size did matter whether it was for Jurassic’s huge […]
HBO goes from Westeros to Westworld
Long before Interstellar (2014) sought inspiration from the works of American theoretical physicist Kip Thorne, a former Harvard Medical School graduate made a name for himself by creating scientific thrillers that dealt with illegal organ transplants and the resurrection of extinct species from DNA samples. Not surprisingly Jonathan Nolan, who co-wrote the screenplay for the […]
Joachim Ronning to direct adaptation of Michael Crichton’s Micro
Following the success of Westworld on HBO, Amblin Entertainment is looking to bring another of Michael Crichton’s projects to the screen, with Deadline reporting that Joachim Ronning (Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales) is in talks to direct an adaptation of Crichton’s final novel Micro. Penned by Darren Lemke (Goosebumps), with Frank […]
