Westworld

..."a long, hard look" at Westworld to make sure the animation in the scenes resembled the film as much as possible. Mirkin said of the Westworld parody: "Again, to show you what a collaboration this is, we had the animators looking at...

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Futureworld is a 1976 sequel to the 1973 science fiction film Westworld. It was written by George Schenk and Mayo Simon, and directed by Richard T. Heffron. The cast included Peter Fonda, Blythe Danner, and Arthur Hill . There is also cameo...

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...away for sick days. Here are some of ours. Long before Michael Crichton threatened park goers with T-rexes and Velociraptors, he directed "Westworld," his own script about Yul Brynner as a black-hatted robo-cowboy gone berserk. James Brolin...

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...Meat-Puppeteers The nifty premise of "Surrogates" builds on a science-fiction conceit familiar from the likes of the 1973 movie "Westworld" and the online game "Second Life. " In a reality that looks a lot like today's (a Prius is the...

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A dozen of his books were adapted into films, and he also wrote original screenplays -- among them "Twister," "Runaway," "Looker" and "Westworld" -- some of which he directed as well. Koepp also worked on the screenplays for Spielberg's...

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...computer games could be played was in a slightly seedy joint crammed full of stand-up game machines. The one I hung out in was called Westworld (named after the 1973 Michael Crichton science-fiction film), two doors down from the landmark Fox...

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...was story-boarded by Jim Steinman and was inspired by the film Future World, the follow-up to the Yul Brynner futuristic thriller Westworld. It was her most successful song, going to number one in the United States, Australia, Canada and the...

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...to please the left. Josh Brolin ("Milk," "No Country For Old Men"), himself the son of a famous father - James Brolin, who starred in "Westworld" - who's taken a long time to succeed on his own terms, seems the right man for the role. His...

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...of best-selling thrillers such as "The Terminal Man" and "Jurassic Park" and a Hollywood writer and director whose credits included "Westworld" and "Coma," has died. He was 66. LOS ANGELES - Michael Crichton, the doctor-turned-author of...

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...to fulfil their sexual and violent fantasies in robot-staffed Roman World, Medieval World and Westworld. advertisement "The robots of Westworld are there to serve you", the ad says - by letting you kill them in gunfights or seduce...

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