Westworld (film) Jerry Weintraub. Nolan and his wife Lisa Joy were set to write and executive produce the series, with Nolan directing the pilot episode. Production began in Summer 2014 in Los Angeles. The new series premiered October 2, 2016. On May 1, 2018, the series was renewed for a third season. Westworld (film) Westworld is a 1973 American science fiction Western thriller film written and directed by novelist Michael Crichton about amusement park androids that malfunction and begin killing visitors. It stars Yul Brynner as an android in a futuristic Western-themed amusement park, and Richard Benjamin and James Brolin as guests
The Boy Who Knew Too Much (The Simpsons) 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 "Westworld" and making sure of the animation, and then we made sure that ["The Simpsons" composer] Alf Clausen got the brilliant soundtrack from the film. He put in a lot of touches that really made the soundtracks identical." Bart's claim to film star and recurring character on "The Simpsons" Rainier Wolfcastle (a parody of Arnold Schwarzenegger) that his "last movie really sucked" and Chief Wiggum's subsequent claim of "magic ticket, my ass"