

Ex Machina and Blade Runner 2049 both in their own ways touch on man's responsibility with artificial intelligence. With films like Ex Machina, this year's exceptional Blade Runner 2049, alongside Netflix's mind-bending Black Mirror, science fiction films and shows are doubling down on exciting and somewhat terrifying ideas about the current state of human endeavors and their lasting impacts. When the attractions can't hurt you as you do anything you want to them, why would you hold back?Įxploring the soul and what it means to be human seems to be the en vogue theme for science fiction. Chase down the bandit Hector Escaton (Rodrigo Santoro), or you could just drop by Maeve Millay's (Thandie Newton) brothel for a bit of fun while you explore your deepest and darkest desires. Meet the beautiful Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood) and her father Peter (Louis Herthum). You can go on an adventure with Teddy Flood (James Marsden). Robert Ford (Anthony Hopkins) and partners Bernard Lowe (Jeffrey Wright) and Theresa Cullen (Sidse Babett Knudsen), the park features a number of exciting attractions. Welcome to Westworld, a place where anything goes.

Abrams to take Crichton's original creation and expand Westworld with themes and ideas about humanity that are hauntingly poetic while being intensely terrifying. A film about a futuristic theme park where the main attractions run amok certainly sounds familiar if you're a Jurassic Park fan, but it took HBO and producers Jonathan Nolan, Lisa Joy, and J.J. However, it is his first film, Westworld starring an aged Yul Brynner that perhaps had the longest lasting impact on Crichton's career and future success. With films like The Great Train Robbery, Coma, and the vastly under-appreciated Runaway under his belt, Crichton was certainly a reliable entertainer before he jumped ship and started writing novels. In the long, long ago before he became a best-selling novelist, Michael Crichton was a hot, in-demand screenwriter and director. "They don't make anything like they used to."
