Directed by Michael Crichton / Screenplay by Michael Crichton

American author and filmmaker Michael Crichton specialised in cautionary tales about mankind’s over-reaching attempts to master creation, generally with catastrophic results as technology fails and death runs amok. Film adaptations of Crichton’s novels include The Andromeda Strain (1971), The Terminal Man (1974), Congo (1996), Sphere (1998), and of course the all-conquering Jurassic Park (1993). Twenty years before Steven Spielberg unleashed his dinosaurs on cinema audiences, Crichton himself was at the helm to direct his own screenplay about another technologically miraculous theme park spiralling out of control. John (James Brolin) and Peter (Richard Benjamin) are among the holidaymakers at Delos, an adult amusement park divided into three themed ‘worlds’ - Roman World, Medieval World and Westworld - where guests can indulge their fantasies in elaborately mocked-up historical environments, peopled by androids programmed to give satisfaction to every whim. But when the Delos mainframe suffers a systems failure, the harmless role-playing holiday becomes a fight to the death with malfunctioning androids, deadliest among them the implacable, unstoppable Gunslinger, played with ball-bearing-eyed malevolence by the great Yul Brynner. Westworld would become one of Crichton’s most enduring franchises: Brynner returned for a 1976 sequel, Futureworld, while the short-lived 1980 television series Beyond Westworld was followed in 2016 by HBO’s star-studded reboot featuring the likes of Anthony Hopkins, Ed Harris, Thandiwe Newton and Jeffrey Wright, which was showered with awards and ran for four seasons, expanding on the mythology created by Crichton’s original classic.

Framed Dimensions: 400mm x 315mm

Acrylic on 230gsm Winsor & Newton canvas paper

Glazed, mounted and framed

Supplied with signed letter of authenticity from Barnaby.