HBO surprised Westworld fans with the release of an official trailer for the award-winning series’ fourth season. The two-minute trailer has a little bit of everything, from gunfire to flies to a burning tree and even a solitary horse on a hillside. The story that connects all these disparate snippets won’t be revealed until the much-anticipated season four debuts on June 26, 2022.
Season four will consist of eight episodes. New episodes will air on Sundays at 9pm ET/PT.
Westworld‘s first 10-episode season premiered in October 2016 followed by season two in April 2018. Season three debuted in March 2020 and wrapped up its eight-episode run in May 2020.
The sci-fi series has won seven Emmys and earned five Screen Actors Guild Awards nominations.
Confirmed returning cast members include Evan Rachel Wood as Christina, Emmy winner Thandiwe Newton as Maeve Millay, Ed Harris as Man in Black, Jeffrey Wright as Bernard Lowe, Tessa Thompson as Charlotte Hale, Luke Hemsworth as Ashley Stubbs, Aaron Paul as Caleb Nichols, and Angela Sarafyan as Clementine. Oscar-winner Ariana DeBose (West Side Story) is a recurring guest star on the new season.
Westworld is based on the 1973 film written by Michael Crichton and was created for TV by Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan. Joy, Nolan, Alison Schapker, Denise Thé, J.J. Abrams, Athena Wickham, Richard J. Lewis, and Ben Stephenson executive produce.
HBO’s official synopsis reads: “A dark odyssey about the fate of sentient life on earth.”
