“Westworld” hasn’t had the easiest passage to the screen. You couldn’t blame HBO for greenlighting it: it was created (from, of course, Michael Crichton’s book) by Jonathan Nolan, co-writer of “Interstellar” et al, with his wife Lisa Joy, and produced by J.J. Abrams, and promised to have the same mix of genre, sex and violence that made “Game Of Thrones” such a giant hit.
But over two years have now passed since the pilot was shot, the show got pushed back significantly, and production was even shut down at one point, leading to a spate of negative headlines. But we’re now just weeks away from the first episode’s premiere, and HBO have dropped (via Coming Soon) a new trailer for the show, set inside a Western theme park staffed by robots, some of whom are becoming aware that they’re not real.
The new clip is entitled “Dreams,” and is cut to the Roy Orbison song of the same name, in a way that proves highly, highly effective. There’s striking imagery, and lots of glimpses of the expansive cast (Anthony Hopkins, Evan Rachel Wood, Jeffrey Wright, Ed Harris, Jimmi Simpson, Thandie Newton, James Marsen, Tessa Thompson, Sidse Babbett Knudsen, Rodrigo Santoro, Ben Barnes, Luke Hemsworth, Clifton Collins Jr and more), and we’re now positively psyched to see the show. It debuts on HBO on October 2nd: watch the trailer below.
