HBO Cancels Westworld After 4 Seasons
Westworld has been canceled by HBO after not too long ago concluding its fourth season in August.
Apart from being a blow to loyal followers, co-creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Pleasure have each stated in interviews that that they had at all times deliberate on wrapping up the sci-fi drama’s story after 5 seasons. “We had at all times deliberate on ending the collection subsequent season,” Pleasure informed The Wrap. “You realize, we at all times thought that Westworld ought to sort of come full circle and again to the West. However with Dolores, who was only a participant in different folks’s video games, lastly getting to jot down her personal.”
Certainly, Season 4 set the stage for Westworld to return to its titular futuristic theme park after increasing the story to the surface world in season three. “There’s time for one final sport, a harmful sport with the best of stakes,” says Evan Rachel Wooden’s Charlotte/Dolores within the finale. “Survival or extinction. This sport ends the place it started. In a world like a maze. That assessments who we’re. That reveals what we’re to grow to be. One final loop across the bend. Possibly this time we’ll set ourselves free.”
Tailored from Michael Crichton’s 1973 movie of the identical identify, Westworld premiered in 2016 and racked up 9 Primetime Emmy wins throughout its run and 54 nominations. Apart from Wooden, the present’s forged featured film stars like Anthony Hopkins, Ed Harris, Thandiwe Newton, Tessa Thompson, Jeffrey Wright, Luke Hemsworth, Aaron Paul, and extra.
“Over the previous 4 seasons, Lisa and Jonah have taken viewers on a mind-bending odyssey, elevating the bar at each step,” HBO shared in a press release. “We’re tremendously grateful to them, together with their immensely gifted forged, producers and crew, and all of our companions at Kilter Movies, Unhealthy Robotic, and Warner Bros. Tv. It’s been a thrill to affix them on this journey.”