Westworld: New Trailer, Premiere Date, Photos, and More on the HBO Drama

Editor's note: This article is our news hub for HBO's Westworld. The most recent news will be placed at the top. 

The Westworld HBO series is described as "a dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the future of sin." In true HBO fashion, expect that "sin" part to come up a lot.

Westworld comes from writer/director/executive producer Jonathan Nolan, as well as JJ Abrams' Bad Robot Productions. Mr. Abrams shares executive producer credit with Jerry Weintraub, Bryan Burk, Kathy Lingg, and Athena Wickham. The pilot was greenlit in 2013 and was ordered to series in November 2014. Here's what we know about HBO's new drama...

Westworld - The Latest News:

Human or robot? HBO released the first key art for Westworld:

A new Westworld trailer gives us our best look at the AI-driven action the series promises to offer. Watch it here! 

HBO also released photography from the first season of Westworld. You call find a selection in the gallery above and all the images here via HBO PR.

Westworld Premiere Date

Westworldwill premiere on Sunday, October 2, at 9 PM.

Westworld looks like it could be HBO's next Game of Thrones or True Detective. Based on a classic Michael Crichton sci-fi film (which we wrote about in detail right here), this is more than just a Westworld remake, it's a reimagining of the entire concept.

But one thing that remains constant is the question of where technology and reality intersect, and how that will influence humanity going forward. "We were fascinated by the tectonic plates that seem to be shifting into place right now – the argument over the creation of AI and what form it will take; VR finally coming online and our consciousness going “broadband,” allowing us to lose ourselves in an acid bath of experience that will be indistinguishable from reality,"Jonathan Nolan told Entertainment Weekly, "and that, despite all of that, we remain, as a species, frustratingly broken, seemingly barreling towards disaster. So, yeah – that’s what we wanted the show to be about."

While the androids gone wild scenario of the original movie only explored the consequences and not the causes, that won't be the case with the TV series. "When it comes to the question of consciousness, we always start with ourselves as the answer," Mr. Nolan said. "But we wanted to challenge that assumption. The 'hosts' are discovering that they’ve been created in our image, but beginning to question if “humanness” is really what they want to aspire to. And given their circumstances, it’s easy to understand why they start to question whether they want to be like us at all."

Here's everything else we know about the series so far...

Westworld Trailer

The Westworld trailer arrived with Game of Thrones Season 6 Episode 9, and you probably want to watch it and not be reading this, right?

Check it out...

Here's an earlier teaser...

And enjoy these off-kilter Vines HBO sent us last year...

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Here's a cool gif...

#Westworld is coming this Fall on @HBO. pic.twitter.com/D9U0zYLRHn

— Westworld (@WestworldHBO) May 26, 2016

Westworld HBO Cast

Here's the main cast: Anthony Hopkins, Ed Harris, Evan Rachel Wood, James Marsden, Thandie Newton, Jeffrey Wright, Rodrigo Santoro, Shannon Woodward, Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, Angela Sarafyan, Simon Quarterman, and Lili Simmons.

Westworld Images

HBO released a series of images for the sci-fi drama...