How the West was won
Aside from a few photos released to coincide with this year's Comic Con, we haven't seen much from HBO's upcoming Westworld series. The wait for footage has been a long one, but this morning we finally got our first glimpse of the hotly-anticipated series, courtesy of a 30-second teaser trailer.
As you'd expect from the channel that gave us a gorgeous recreation of Westeros, Westworld looks suitably epic, with rolling vistas and some lush cinematography.
The teaser's all-too brief but we do get a look at the principal cast members as well as some deranged looking robots. Ed Harris, standing in for Yul Bryner, as the murderous automaton that kickstarts robogeddon, is teased, but the vid stops short of revealing him completely.
The series is based, in part, on the science fiction film of the same name from 1973. Written and directed by Michael Crichton, it imagines what would happen if a holiday resort populated by robot servants, designed to indulge their human guests' every whim, went inexplicably, catastrophically wrong.
Much as I enjoy the original movie, I'm interested to see how the show's creators use all extra running time to flesh out Crichton's original vision. Hopefully, we'll see more of the robots and the struggles that accompany their growing sentience amongst all the man on machine violence.
An exact release date for the series hasn't been confirmed, but the tease promises it'll arrive sometime next year.
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