"Westworld," based on the 1973 film of the same name directed by Michael Crichton, will be executively produced by J.J. Abrams, Jerry Weintraub and Bryan Burk, while "Interstellar" co-writer Jonathan Nolan will pen the one-hour episodes.
HBO did not confirm how many episodes the show will include, or an exact air date, Reuters reported.
While Crichtons film explored a futuristic adult amusement park thrown into chaos after a robot malfunction, the HBO series is described as "a dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the future of sin."
"Westworld" will also star Thandie Newton, Evan Rachel Wood, James Marsden, Shannon Woodward, Ingrid Bolso Berdal and Simon Quarterman.
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