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HBO used the season two finale of "True Detective" to debut first teaser trailer for its highly anticipated "Westworld". Anthony Hopkins stars in the series, based on Michael Crichton's 1973 movie of the same name, as an inventor named Dr. Robert Ford who runs an adult amusement park populated by lifelike robots.

The approximately-30-second clip opens with Dolores Abernathy (Evan Rachel Wood) being asked by a male voiceover, "Do you know where you are?" She replies, "I'm in a dream." The man tells her, "That's right, Dolores. You wanna wake up from this dream?" to which she answers, "Yes. I'm terrified." The man adds, "Then answer my question correctly. Have you ever questioned the nature of your reality?"

HBO wowed the press at the Television Critics Association's summer press tour with an extended trailer of "Westworld". The studio's programming president Michael Lombardo said, "[With] the film ... you were very invested in one particular group of humans that were enjoying the park and their experience with the robots. This is not that. This is very much told from the POV of the robots. The corporate world's as dimensionalized as the park. And I think the visitors to the park are really not the primary focus of our show at all. So again, without giving more than that away, I think all I can say is only one character that you saw in the clip is a visitor to the park. And yeah, it resembles the film in name and in spirit and but really is, I think, otherwise not much of a reference point."

Anthony and Evan star on the sci-fi thriller series along with Ed Harris, James Marsden, Thandie Newton, Jeffrey Wright, Miranda Otto, Rodrigo Santoro, Shannon Woodward. Directed by Jonathan Nolan, the show will premiere in the first half of 2016.