'Westworld' HBO Spoilers, Latest Rumors: New Trailer Video for Upcoming Series Amps Up Excitement
On Sunday night, the trailer for HBO's upcoming and highly-anticipated science fiction and western-thriller TV series "Westworld" was released and it featured Anthony Hopkins as Dr. Robert Ford, the creative director of the titular amusement park. Thandie Newton plays one of the entertainment droids, and Evan Rachel Wood is Dolores.
The show, which was touted to bring the cable network into the science fiction genre, was based on the 1973 film of the same name by Michael Crichton about "the ultimate resort where you can live out your every fantasy" and that would include "lawless violence on the American frontier of the 1880s."
Speculations from eager viewers indicated that the HBO adaptation will feel less like the Crichton film but instead would be a bit more like the "Ex Machina" or "The Matrix." The trailer's catchphrase is: "Have you ever questioned the nature of your reality?"
There isn't much details released about the show yet but its official website tells of "a dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the future of sin."
Jonathan Nolan, who served as the executive producer, writer and director of the series, told Entertainment Weekly earlier this year that he and Lisa Joy (co-exec producer) intended to make "Westworld" the most "ambitious, subversive, and (expletive) television series" but at the same time "preserving the old-fashioned audience experience" with them coming in "knowing as little as possible."
Aside from the cast members mentioned beforehand, "Westworld" is also set to highlight the acts of actors Ed Harris, James Marsden, Jeffrey Wright, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Rodrigo Santoro, Shannon Woodward, Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, Ben Barnes, Jimmi Simpson, Clifton Collins, Jr., Simon Quarterman and Angela Sarafyan.
The series will debut 2016.
