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Ed Harris is coming to series TV: The Abyss and Apollo 13 actor has signed on as the Big Bad in HBO’s Westworld reboot.
The four-time Oscar nominee’s character is called The Man in Black, and is described as “the distillation of pure villainy into one man.” He joins previously cast star — and fellow series television newcomer—Anthony Hopkins, along with Evan Rachel Wood, Jeffrey Wright, and Shannon Woodward.
The Warner Bros.-produced sci-fi pilot produced by J.J Abrams, Jerry Weintraub, and Bryan Burk updates Michael Crichton’s 1973 classic film about a theme park where androids fulfill dark human desires. Harris’ description might sound like he’s playing the Yul Brynner killer-cowboy robot role, but it seems like actor Rodrigo Santoro was tapped for that part—and online production rumors suggest The Man in Black is actually a human character who sadistically abuses the androids.
Harris will soon be seen the feature film Run All Night, starring opposite Liam Neeson and Joel Kinnaman. Harris won a Golden Globe and was nominated for an Emmy for his work in HBO’s Game Change. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Buck:
She does get choked to death, but by a guest. The guy who steals the safe I think stabs her when she asks.
Right. I think the scene (where she gets stabbed and the bullet is discovered) ends in a way that implies that they both died in a hail of gunfire. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Bowser:
So another question -
Who were the people stalking up on MiB, Teddy, and Once Hot now Crazy Lady in the desert? Were those escaped hosts from Roman World and (Whatever Else) World? Hosts that have achieved sentience there come to free the hosts still trapped in Westworld? The big guy Teddy and MiB took down, there was a schematic for him on the wall of one of the working cubes earlier in the show....
(I ask because it looks like a Centurion pulling a sword as they close in on the three of them. A little out of place there, no?)
Go look at the episode 9 preview. Watch for the part where it looks like a naked Bernard has just gotten up off a gurney. To his right that appears to be the host-making machine and it looks empty. I was watching a YouTube video recap/prediction video and they had it as a still, or I wouldn't have noticed. [Reply]
