Throughout 4 seasons, Westworld explored an array of intrigue and power struggles between people and remarkably lifelike human robots, first contained to an immersive Wild West theme park, then spread out across the world at large. When its season four finale hit HBO in August 2022, it felt prefer it may be stopping level—but in addition, like there was lots extra to discover.
That dream collapsed when HBO cancelled the collection in November 2022; on the time, co-creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Pleasure made it clear that they’d “at all times deliberate for a fifth and remaining season.” Solid members, including James Marsden, have been understandably bummed in regards to the present’s abrupt conclusion, and the Westworld wound only got deeper when HBO removed the series from its streaming service, then referred to as HBO Max.
However may there be a Westworld revival sometime? In January, Evan Rachel Wood shared hopes that she’d sooner or later get to finish the arc of her character. And at present, in an interview with the Hollywood Reporter, Nolan—who’s making the rounds discussing his new Prime Video collection, video-game adaptation Fallout—was requested about his hopes that the Westworld ending he and Pleasure had plotted out would by some means see the sunshine of day. “Sure, one hundred pc. We’re completionists,” he mentioned. “We’d like to complete the story we began.”
What type that may take—the interviewer mentions a graphic novel or a film, and Nolan doesn’t tackle specifics—is unclear; he additionally sounded unbothered by Westworld’s post-cancellation shift from Max to FAST channels, noting “the quantity of individuals you’ll be able to attain with a free, ad-supported service is vastly larger than with a subscription service.” (In the mean time, it’s not obtainable on any FAST service.) Not attending to a conclusion he’s happy with, nonetheless, appears to nonetheless hang-out him: “By way of ending the story, you perceive that you just get the time that you just get, generally it’s as a lot as you need, generally it’s not. I’m so fucking pleased with what we made. It was a rare expertise. I believe it will be a mistake to look again and solely really feel remorse [over how it ended]. However there’s nonetheless very a lot a need to complete it.”
Later within the interview, when requested about what he’d realized from making exhibits that ended too quickly (see additionally: Prime Video’s The Peripheral, which left behind a lot of dangling threads), he mentioned, “You’re at all times studying … You simply need an opportunity to go once more. You set all the pieces you might have into one film or one season. Should you get an opportunity to go once more, then nice. If the ‘lesson’ was to ease again on the complexity or the weirdness of one thing, I don’t need to study that lesson.”
Fallout hits Prime Video April 12; you’ll be able to rent or buy seasons and episodes of Westworld on Prime Video as effectively.
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