Actors Evan Rachel Wood, James Marsden, Thandie Newton and Ed Harris speak onstage during the 'Westworld' panel discussion at the HBO portion of the 2016 Television Critics Association Summer Tour at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on July 30, 2016 in Beverly Hi (Photo : Getty Images/Frederick M. Brown)
Viewers are anticipating the premiere of HBO's new sci-fi thriller series, "Westworld," which seems to many as the next "Game of Thrones." The upcoming series is based on the 1973 film of the same name that was written and directed by novelist Michael Crichton.
The upcoming series follows the tenants of a high-tech theme park, dubbed Westworld, where every human appetite, no matter how respectable or debased, can be divulged. It is described as a dark odyssey about the beginning of artificial consciousness and the future of transgression, The Hollywood Reporter reported.
Ahead of its official release, a full-length trailer of HBO's "Westworld" began streaming online, offering a lens into the pending robopocalyptic conflict between the Westworld's android hosts and their human guardians. The 130-second long trailer focused on a local prairie lady, Dolores Abernathy (Evan Rachel Wood), who gradually begins to realize her whole life is a completely constructed lie.
Apart from Wood, the upcoming series will star Anthony Hopkins, 78, as the splendid creative director of Westworld, Dr. Robert Ford. He is also the chief programmer and chairman of the board of Westworld and has an uncompromising inventive vision for the futuristic theme park.
Hopkins' role is described as a combination between Walt Disney and Dr. Frankenstein. It is said that Dr. Robert Ford wants to make an unadulterated oppressed world or ideal world, but he begins to understand that he has lost track of it.
Other stars include Ed Harris as the Gunslinger, James Marsden as Teddy Flood, Jeffrey Wright as Bernard Lowe, Tessa Thompson as Charlotte Hale and Sidse Babett Knudsen as Theresa Cullen and Thandie Newton as Maeve Millay, the sharp madam of Westworld. The new sci-fi series has not even debuted yet, but HBO is already planning the next five seasons of the show.
In a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, Marsden revealed that the showrunners focus was not just on the first season, as well as the next five or six years. The "The Best of Me" actor added that the executive producers wanted to plot out the entire show up until its finale and have that goal in mind from the very start.
"It turns out, producers wanted to firm up their master plan for the entire series," Marsden explained. "We wanted everything in line so that when the very last episode airs and we have our show finale, five or seven years down the line, we knew how it was going to end the first season."
HBO's "Westworld" is scheduled to premiere on Oct. 2. Check out the trailer below:
