This new Westworld featurette is making us ask some pretty deep questions

Human identity, morals, desires – and very cool androids. HBO's sci-fi Western has got us very excited

Published: Monday, 19 September 2016 at 11:14 am

We've said it before and we'll say it again: HBO's Westworld series is going to be a little bit deeper and more complex than the robots-go-rogue-in-a-theme-park scenario of the 1973 movie.

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The upcoming series, starring Anthony Hopkins as the man playing god with artificial intelligence, is aiming to address all kinds of questions about human identity, morals and desires – as explained by executive producer JJ Abrams, co-creator Jonathan Nolan and some of the stars of the show in this new featurette.

And yes, in case you were wondering, it also has cool androids and sci-fi stuff in it...

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Westworld comes to Sky Atlantic at 9pm on Tuesday 4th October

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Paul JonesExecutive Editor, RadioTimes.com

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