The cast is really, really, coming together for the J.J. Abrams-produced HBO series Westworld.
James Marsden is the latest star to officially sign on as a regular on the sci-fi series set at an insane-sounding theme park populated by super-realistic androids where people go to experience lawless violence on the western frontier.
That announcement comes only a day after the series added six more actors, including Hunger Games franchise star Jeffrey Wright, to a cast that already included Anthony Hopkins and Evan Rachel Wood.
The series is based on a movie from 1970s that was written and directed by author Michael Crichton and has maintained a cult following over the years.
The plot of the thriller involved a vacation destination where people paid $1,000 a day to hang with the androids (read: screw them, fight them to the death, etc.), so there's plenty of room for this thing to get twisted and dark, especially with Jonathan Nolan, co-writer of The Dark Knight and Dark Knight Rises co-producing and writing.
X-Men, Anchorman 2, and The Butler star Marsden is playing Teddy Flood, a badass new gunslinger in town whose thing for a local beauty (human or android? not sure) gets him into some trouble.
Other new casting announcements today: Eddie Rouse (American Gangster) will play "Kissy," an American Indian casino and contraband dealer; Demetrius Grosse (Justified), Kyle Bornheimer (She's Out of My League) and Currie Graham (Murder in the First).
There's no details yet on when this show will actually premiere. For now you can check out the trailer from the 1972 original.
[Via The Hollywood Reporter]
