--- title: Watch the First Westworld Trailer from HBO description: Get a creepy first glimpse of the upcoming series canonical: https://time.com/3990390/westworld-trailer-hbo/ author: Entertainment Weekly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-08-10T12:01:24.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:23:12.947Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Watch the First Trailer for HBO's 'Westworld' og:description: Creepy! og:url: https://time.com/3990390/westworld-trailer-hbo/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch the First Trailer for HBO's 'Westworld' twitter:description: Creepy! twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch the Creepy First Trailer for HBO's _Westworld_ by [James Hibberd / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## James Hibberd / Entertainment Weekly Aug 10, 2015 12:01 PM UTC by [James Hibberd / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## James Hibberd / Entertainment Weekly Aug 10, 2015 12:01 PM UTC The first footage from HBO’s ambitious _Westworld_ TV series is finally here (below). After many months of anticipation (and some re-casting) HBO released the first significant online teaser for its star-filled upcoming series from Jonathan Nolan (brother of director Christopher) and Lisa Joy, along with producers J.J. Abrams, Jerry Weintraub and Bryan Burk. Though only about 30 seconds long, you’ll get some sense of the drama series. The set-up: Loosely based on the 1973 sci-fi film from Michael Crichton, _Westworld_ is about a futuristic theme park where visitors can live out their dark fantasies with ultra-realistic androids (there are 3D printed sexbots and killbots) — until something, of course, goes wrong. The cast includes James Marsden, Evan Rachel Wood, Thandie Newton, Anthony Hopkins, Jeffrey Wright and Ed Harris. For more, here’s our deep-dive interview with producers. _Westworld_ is expected to premiere sometime next year. [_This article originally appeared on EW.com_](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/08/09/westworld-trailer) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3990390/westworld-trailer-hbo/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3990390/westworld-trailer-hbo/"},"headline":"Watch the Creepy First Trailer for HBO's Westworld","datePublished":"2015-08-10T12:01:24.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:23:12.947Z","description":"Get a creepy first glimpse of the upcoming series","url":"https://time.com/3990390/westworld-trailer-hbo/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"James Hibberd / Entertainment Weekly"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3990390/westworld-trailer-hbo/","name":"Watch the Creepy First Trailer for HBO's Westworld"}}]}] ```