By Travis Johnson
There’s a slow motion shot in this trailer of a wolf running through a dusty street littered with dead bodies. If that doesn’t sell you, we don’t know what will.
Okay, try this: Westworld is looking far weirder than we ever thought it would, eschewing both the obvious technology bases – robotics and VR/sensory immersion – for something that seems to mix both. The high tech Old West holiday destination we’re presented with seems to be some bizarre mix of both – tactile and physical, yet mutable and surreal. And the notion that Ed Harris’s black-clad gunslinger is not just an implacable malfunctioning robot, as Yul Brynner played in the original, but some kind of messianic figure, is great More of that, please.
And let us note how appropriate it is that we’re getting remakes of both Westworld and The Magnificent Seven within a couple of weeks of each other.
Westworld debuts on Foxtel on October 3, 2016.
