| Futureworld | |
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| Directed by | Richard T. Heffron |
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| Edited by | James Mitchell |
| Music by | Fred Karlin |
Production company | The Aubrey Company |
| Distributed by | American International Pictures |
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Running time | 107 minutes[2] |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $2.5 million |
| Box office | $4.2 million (US/Canada theatrical rentals)[3][4] |
Futureworld is a 1976 American science fiction thriller film directed by Richard T. Heffron and written by Mayo Simon and George Schenck. It is a sequel to the 1973 Michael Crichton film Westworld, and is the second installment in the Westworld franchise. The film stars Peter Fonda, Blythe Danner, Arthur Hill, Stuart Margolin, John Ryan, and Yul Brynner, who makes an appearance in a dream sequence; no other cast member from the original film appears. Westworld's writer-director, Michael Crichton, and the original studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer were not involved in this production. Composer Fred Karlin was retained.
The film attempted to take the plot in a different direction from Westworld, but it was not well received by U.S. critics. French critics appreciated the film more, appearing on the list of best science fiction films ever made in Demain la Science Fiction.[5] It was made by American International Pictures (its predecessor was made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, which later bought AIP's successor Orion Pictures). A short-lived television series titled Beyond Westworld followed.
- ^ "Stars of 'Futureworld' At Houston World Bow". BoxOffice. July 19, 1976. p. 8.
- ^ "Futureworld (AA)". British Board of Film Classification. July 20, 1976. Retrieved November 29, 2023.
- ^ Goldman, Lowell (Fall 1990). "Peter Fonda: I Know What It's Like to Be Dead". Psychotronic Video. No. 7. p. 36.
- ^ Donahue, Suzanne Mary (1987). American film distribution : the changing marketplace. UMI Research Press. p. 300. ISBN 9780835717762. Please note figures are for rentals in US and Canada
- ^ The Overlook Film Encyclopedia: Science Fiction. ed. Phil Hardy. Third Edition. New York: The Overlook Press, 1995, 502.