HBO’s Westworld Gets Teased

New Adaptation of Crichton’s Sci Fi Comes To HBO

♦Jonathan Nolan’s Westworld will be on HBO this autumn and they have released a proper trailer for it now…

Westworld is an upcoming science fiction thriller television series created by Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy for HBO, based on the 1973 film of the same name, which was written and directed by American novelist Michael Crichton. Nolan serves as executive producer along with Joy, J. J. Abrams and Bryan Burk with Nolan directing the pilot. It is scheduled to premiere in fall 2016.

Described as “a dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the future of sin,” the series tells the story of a futuristic theme park called Westworld.

Its cast is pretty impressive:

Anthony Hopkins as Dr. Robert Ford, the brilliant creative director of Westworld, Ed Harris as the Man in Black, a mysterious villain, Evan Rachel Wood as Dolores Abernathy, a Western girl who discovers her entire life is an elaborately constructed lie, James Marsden as Teddy Flood, a newly arrived gunslinger in pursuit of a local beauty,  Thandie Newton as Maeve Millay, the beautiful and sharp madame of Westworld, Jeffrey Wright as Bernard Lowe, head of the Westworld Programming Division and creator of artificial people, Rodrigo Santoro as Harlan Bell, as Harlan Bell, a wanted man bent on survival, Ben Barnes as Logan, a louche bachelor and veteran Westworld guest. His hedonistic romp through Westworld is equally motivated by self-indulgence and a desire to help his friend, William. Jimmi Simpson as William, a reluctant first time visitor to Westworld, joining his friend, Logan. Initially dismissive of the park’s more lascivious attractions, he slowly uncovers a deeper meaning to the park’s narrative.