The launch date of HBO's highly-anticipated sci-fi drama Westworld has been announced after a series of well-publicised delays.
The big budget drama, which also boasts a stellar cast, is due to hit screens on Tuesday, October 4 on Sky Atlantic. HBO is pinning it's hopes that the drama will take over the reigns as its flagship series when Game of Thrones reaches the end of the road in a couple of years time.
Based on the novel by late author Michael Crichton and 1974 movie of the same name, Westworld is described as a "dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the evolution of sin" and revolves around a futuristic wild-west theme park where people live out their fantasies, and whose robot staff may be developing a mind of their own.
The show was embroiled in controversy when it emerged that some of the actors contracts contained very lurid clauses allowing for orgy scenes including the eye raising stipulation that allowed for actors to “contort to form a table-like shape while being fully nude".
No expense has been spared and the impressive Westworld cast includes Ed Harris, James Marsden, Evan Rachel Wood, Ben Barnes, Thandie Newton and Anthony Hopkins.
The instigator of the series is Person of Interest's Jonathan Nolan, a screenwriter, television producer, director and author, while JJ Abrams of Star Wars and Star Trek fame is among the producers.
Westworld will air on HBO in the USA from October 2, two days in advance of Sky Atlantic.
