Westworld: New Mature Trailer Brings Bullets and Bots
It’s only a few months until HBO’s adaptation of Westworld mosey’s on in to town so before we get the full on wild west robo-geddon, here’s a particularly mature look at what’s in store.
Taking wish-fulfilment and hedonism to their violent extremes, this incarnation of Michael Crichton’s 1973 movie of the same name explores the moral or amoral dilemmas of the inhabitants of a futuristic theme park with a western desk top theme – it’s a realm where every human appetite, no matter how noble or depraved, can be indulged via some extremely realistic artificial life forms.
However, when things go wrong – and they go very wrong indeed - the A.I. begin to show real signs of sentience, realising very quickly that the human visitors are not the ones who should be running the place.
Speaking to Empire, co-writer Jonathan Nolan (The Dark Knight), gets to the heart of what makes Westworld such a tantalising prospect for those likely doomed human visitors:
“I’ve always felt in adaptation you have to be a bit of a heretic. What we keep is the brilliant, subversive idea of the set-up: what if there was a place you could go and act out your darkest fantasies with no consequences.”
Only well, there are lots of consequences…bad consequences.
It stars James Marsden as mysterious cowboy Teddy, Evan Rachel Wood as a robotic rancher's daughter Dolores Abernathy, Rodrigo Santoro (300) as Hector Escaton, Ingrid Bolsø Berdal as Armistice, Thandie Newton as A.I. brothel madam Maeve and Angela Sarafyan as Clementine – along with Anthony Hopkins as Dr Robert Ford, the creative director of Westworld, Ed Harris as the mysterious Man in Black and Jeffery Wright as Bernard Lowe, head of the Westworld Programming Division and creator of artificial people.
Westworld will premiere in the states on October 2nd on HBO.