FUTUREWORLD
1976 * Color * 107 minutes * Rated PG

Peter Fonda and Blythe Danner star as reporters who find more than they bargained for at a renovated fantasy park in this chilling sequel to Michael Crichton's wildly successful 1973 thriller Westworld.

Welcome to Delos, an adult resort where, for $1,000 a day, guests can interact with lifelike robots to fulfill their every desire. Comprised of Medieval World, Roman World and Westworld, Delos offers the vacation of the future...today. Whether it's romancing a Queen, enjoying the decadent pleasures of Pompeii, or gunning down a real outlaw, Delos is the ultimate in exciting getaways. Until something goes terribly wrong. A technological virus spreads through the automatons, causing a violent rebellion that results in the deaths of over fifty visitors, and the park is shut down indefinitely.

Two years later after the disaster, Delos confidently reopens the facility. Memories of the past, however, hinder mass acceptance, and company executive Duffy (Arthur Hill) offers television correspondent Tracy Ballard (Danner) and newspaperman Chuck Browning (Fonda) the opportunity to visit the resort in hopes of garnering positive press and restoring public confidence.

Once there, Tracy and Chuck receive carte blanche, observing operations from inside as well as out. The duo is treated to such pleasures as a visit to the abandoned Westworld and a trip through its replacement, Futureworld, which includes a stop on Mars for some recreational skiing. They are also given a demonstration of Duffy's prototype "inner space chamber," where Tracy experiences a fantasy tryst with Westworld's gunslinger (Yul Brynner).

But something isn't quite right.
Having covered the original Delos debacle, Chuck's instincts tell him there's a secret behind the company's smiling corporate cooperation; that the sinister Dr. Schneider (John Ryan) has more in mind than the amusement of affluent strangers. Despite her belief that he suffers from paranoid delusions, Tracy accompanies Chuck into the Delos underground, where they meet Harry (Stuart Margolin), a blue-collar technician who's seen the ins and outs of Delos from the beginning. And with Harry's help, the pair find themselves enmeshed in a plot of frightening proportions, surrounded by forces more powerful and insidious than could possibly have been imagined. Pursued through the night, Tracy and Chuck must finally face off against the most unexpected of assassins, trapped in a heart-stopping showdown from which there is no escape.

Directed by Richard T. Heffron, FUTUREWORLD takes horrors of Westworld one step further, presenting not a glimpse of technology gone awry but rather an intelligent, alarming look at the implications of those same technological advancements as controlled by the hands of evil.