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Jun 22, 2016 17:10
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Looking forward to this show very much. Jonah Nolan's last show just ended and has me pretty confident in what he'll be able to do with purely serialized AI storytelling. My only regret is someone made this thread before I could. 
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Zaggitz posted:My only regret is someone made this thread before I could. A year ago no less. I just came in here after seeing the trailers and saw posts from June saying it was coming out in July... Took me a bit to figure out they were from last summer. Guess this one's been in the works for a while.
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Regy Rusty posted:A year ago no less. I just came in here after seeing the trailers and saw posts from June saying it was coming out in July... Took me a bit to figure out they were from last summer. If this thing gets a second season all the actors are going to be very visibly aged
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Jun 22, 2016 22:48
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I watched the movie last night, and I have to say it was fun if a bit short. I can definitely see how it appealed to Nolan after watching PoI.
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Jun 24, 2016 02:35
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Oh hey Vinyl got cancelled wonder why
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Unless this season hits the ground running I think it will be cancelled too, to be honest
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Koirhor posted:Oh hey Vinyl got cancelled wonder why
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Jun 24, 2016 13:19
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Zaggitz posted:For the record, Jonah Nolan co-writes most of his brother's movies, notable exception being Inception. He also created Person of Interest which features one of if not the best depiction of Artificial Intelligence in both film and movies. Westworld is a passion project between him and his wife and given his personal track record, should be pretty loving amazing. He is a good writer. http://www.esquire.com/entertainment/books/a1564/memento-mori-0301/
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Jun 24, 2016 14:35
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Has there been any more news about him working on Foundation?
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Jun 24, 2016 15:24
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Looks like we finally have a date for this show. October 2nd is the premiere. Can't wait.
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MrBling posted:Looks like we finally have a date for this show. Nice, I'd just assumed it would be late October
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They probably want to beat TWD and the other fall shows to the punch, hoping to make this the new GoT. An old college buddy worked on the production crew and had some awesome things to say about it, but I also read some pretty shady stuff about the contracts the extras had to sign. Hopefully this doesn't turn into another Luck, I really dig the premise and they got an amazing cast. Fingers crossed...
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I thought Luck had bad ratings and or reviews for the cost of production, so the dead horses thing was just a convenient out for them to take so they could cancel the show.
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Aug 7, 2016 03:52
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They do need a new flagship. They went from Sopranos to True Blood to Game of Thrones, and GoT is almost over.
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Lycus posted:They do need a new flagship. They went from Sopranos to True Blood to Game of Thrones, and GoT is almost over. What was their flagship before Sopranos?
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Aug 7, 2016 05:57
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Oz.
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drunkill posted:Oz. Did Oz and the Wire run at the same time? Was Dream On every an HBO flagship show?
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Rhyno posted:Did Oz and the Wire run at the same time? For a little bit. Oz was 97-03 Wire was 02-08
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zVxTeflon posted:For a little bit. Oz was 97-03 Wire was 02-08 Six Feet Under was pretty popular too, wasn't it?
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I'm basing this on nothing, but not as popular and I don't think the Wire was super popular either just well regarded
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Yeah iirc The Wire was a critical hit (and remains The Best Show Ever imo), but wasn't a huge hit with audiences.
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Professor Shark posted:Yeah iirc The Wire was a critical hit (and remains The Best Show Ever imo), but wasn't a huge hit with audiences. It probably would have been in the final two seasons if it hadn't been leaked.
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Yeah, didn't The Wire run pretty much alongside The Sopranos? I'm not sure it was ever considered a big hit, more of a sleeper and critical darling which is now viewed with rose-colored glasses. I think Sex and the City and Sopranos were their first big hits and the "flagship" shows when their original programming started taking off. Carnivale and then Rome bridged the gap between Sopranos and True Blood, but were too expensive so welp. After that it seems like they threw most of the programming budget at their tentpole show, then liked to have a lot of cheap-to-shoot contemporary-setting shows all based around New York to pad the lineup. I'm guessing they have a lot of sets/props leftover from Deadwood that make Westworld cheaper to film while GoT is still taking the lion's share of the budget.
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Show looks awesome but this looks like a prime candidate for "awesome show gets cancelled because dumb plebs don't like it".
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maniacripper posted:Show looks awesome but this looks like a prime candidate for "awesome show gets cancelled because dumb plebs don't like it". That's not really a very common phenomenon for HBO shows, at least not until they get a second season.
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:I'm guessing they have a lot of sets/props leftover from Deadwood that make Westworld cheaper to film while GoT is still taking the lion's share of the budget. One of the reasons the Deadwood movie hasn't happened (yet) is that all the sets would have to be rebuilt. Nobody keeps sets/props around just on the off chance they will be needed sometime. Hell, sometimes shows have to build new sets after summer break because the old ones have been torn down to use the stages for something else in the summer months.
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Aug 8, 2016 08:23
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I'll rebuild the drat deadwood sets, call me
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I watched Westworld for the first time last month, and then I heard about this project. I can't wait to see how this turns out. I also watched the low-rent Futureworld, which starts out interesting and devolves into the stupid. I just really want a sex robot.
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moolchaba posted:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzO2mi4uHAs
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Why was deadwood ever cancelled in the first place?
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Crash74 posted:Why was deadwood ever cancelled in the first place? David Milch is a mess of drug addictions, gambling problems and mental illness, that`s why.
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Flatscan posted:David Milch is a mess of drug addictions, gambling problems and mental illness, that`s why. Also money? HBO seemed completely loathe to spend money on sets and costumes for more than 2 seasons before GoT was a smash hit. That's why I think there was a warehouse full of old Deadwood props like guns and belts and whatnot that they just couldn't bear to throw out and are now reusing. Probably that bulldozer from Carnivale, too. Speaking of Deadwood, the most recent trailers for West World have me worried that they are trying to borrow Deadwood's vulgarity by just inserting "gently caress" a few times into every sentence to make it more ~adult~. Which totally misses the point of how much fun the dialogue in Deadwood was or why it was so good. Hopefully it's just the snippets. Still really excited, but trying to temper it so I can be pleasantly surprised rather than disappointed.
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I love deadwood but the dialogue is not the reason. For a lot of the actors, talking like that is clearly very near to torture for them as is me hearing it.
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:Also money? That`s part of it, certainly. Milch wanted to put production on hold while he worked on John from Cincinnati (remember that piece of poo poo?). HBO didn`t want to keep paying the cast to sit on their asses for an indefinite period, so it was agreed to shut down production completely and then pick up Deadwood as a couple of tv movies at some point in the future once Milch regained interest. Milch keeps talking about the tv movies in interviews even now, but I think that`s only because people keep asking, I don`t think he really gives a poo poo.
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hemophilia posted:I love deadwood but the dialogue is not the reason. For a lot of the actors, talking like that is clearly very near to torture for them as is me hearing it. Yeah they do get to... mitigatin' near the end there.
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Aug 10, 2016 16:27
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you can't tell me the actor who played EB Farnum disliked talking like that
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Flatscan posted:That`s part of it, certainly. Milch wanted to put production on hold while he worked on John from Cincinnati (remember that piece of poo poo?). HBO didn`t want to keep paying the cast to sit on their asses for an indefinite period, so it was agreed to shut down production completely and then pick up Deadwood as a couple of tv movies at some point in the future once Milch regained interest. I thought Timothy Olyphant was working on resurrecting Deadwood? Even if not, I think he would rock on Westwood, kind of in the role of the original protagonist.
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Pron on VHS posted:you can't tell me the actor who played EB Farnum disliked talking like that He is specifically who im thinking of. It plays to his character in a hosed and weird way but it is agonizing to hear him say a single loving sentence.
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