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 ultimate season.” Forged members, including James Marsden, had been understandably bummed concerning 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 at some point get to finish the arc of her character. And at the moment, 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 in some way see the sunshine of day. “Sure, one hundred pc. We’re completionists,” he stated. “We’d like to complete the story we began.”
What kind that will take—the interviewer mentions a graphic novel or a film, and Nolan doesn’t deal with specifics—is unclear; he additionally sounded unbothered by Westworld’s post-cancellation shift from Max to FAST channels, noting “the quantity of individuals you possibly can attain with a free, ad-supported service is vastly greater than with a subscription service.” (In the mean time, it’s not out there on any FAST service.) Not attending to a conclusion he’s glad with, nevertheless, appears to nonetheless hang-out him: “When it comes to ending the story, you perceive that you simply get the time that you simply get, generally it’s as a lot as you need, generally it’s not. I’m so fucking happy 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 want to complete it.”
Later within the interview, when requested about what he’d discovered from making reveals that ended too quickly (see additionally: Prime Video’s The Peripheral, which left behind a lot of dangling threads), he stated, “You’re at all times studying … You simply need an opportunity to go once more. You place every part you have got into one film or one season. For those who 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 wish to study that lesson.”
Fallout hits Prime Video April 12; you possibly can rent or buy seasons and episodes of Westworld on Prime Video as properly.
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