The first official trailer for the third season of the highly anticipated Emmy-winning series Westworld has been released.

Westworld returns for an eight-episode third season on March 16, exclusively on HBO GO and HBO.

The last season saw the two human-looking androids, Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood) and Bernard (Jeffrey Wright), beginning a new chapter outside the exclusive theme park in the series – a dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the birth of a new form of life on Earth.

Vincent Cassel makes his first Westworld appearance in this trailer, alongside other new and returning cast members, including Wood, Wright, Emmy winner Thandie Newton as Maeve, Ed Harris as Man in Black, Tessa Thompson as Charlotte, Luke Hemsworth as Stubbs, Simon Quarterman as Lee Sizemore and Rodrigo Santoro as Hector Escaton.

Blending in: Aaron Paul of ‘Breaking Bad’ fame joins the third season of ‘Westworld’. (Courtesy of HBO Asia/-)

Joining the cast this season are Aaron Paul (Breaking Bad), Vincent Cassel (Black Swan), Lena Waithe (HBO’s A Black Lady Sketch Show, Master of None), Scott Mescudi (HBO’s upcoming We Are Who We Are), Marshawn Lynch (Brooklyn Nine-Nine), John Gallagher Jr. (HBO’s The Newsroom and Olive Kitteridge), Michael Ealy (Stumptown) and Tommy Flanagan (Sons of Anarchy).

To mark the return of Westworld, Asian viewers stand a chance of winning a year’s subscription to HBO GO and exclusive premiums by participating in the Westworld contest, which runs until Feb. 28.

The show was created for television by Jonathan Nolan & Lisa Joy, who are also executive producers with J. J. Abrams, Athena Wickham, Richard J. Lewis, Ben Stephenson, and Denise Thé.

The first two seasons of Westworld received a combined 42 Emmy nominations. The second season's 20 Emmy nominations resulted in three wins, including: Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series (Thandie Newton), Outstanding Makeup for a Single-Camera Series (Non-Prosthetic) and Outstanding Hairstyling for a Single-Camera Series.