Westworld May Not Be as Over as We Thought
Jonathan Nolan hasn’t given up the idea of bringing Westworld back online.
Though HBO cancelled the sci-fi drama in 2022, and subsequently removed it from streaming on Max, Nolan recently told The Wrap that he and fellow co-creator Lisa Joy “did have an architecture for the series and I’m big on getting a chance to finish these things. I think our hope is still somewhere down the line [for] a chance to revisit that story, and I would hate to have spoiled it now if we get a chance to do so.”
The comments echo ones Nolan recently made to The Hollywood Reporter, in which he said there was a “100 percent” chance that the ending he and Joy planned for Westworld would eventually come to fruition in some form. “We’re completionists,” he added. “It took me eight years and a change of director to get Interstellar made. We’d like to finish the story we started.”
If and/or when that comes to pass, it will be the first time that series star Evan Rachel Wood — who has two Emmy nominations for playing Westworld‘s Dolores — will become privy to the fate of the fictional world she inhabited for four seasons.
“[The cancellation] was devastating in a lot of ways because, first of all, [Nolan and Joy] don’t tell us where the show is going. We were just always told, ‘We know how the show ends,’ when we started,” Wood said in January. “They weren’t writing it as we went along. They had an idea, and we were all just on a bed of nails waiting to see and hear what the conclusion of this was. What it all meant.”
Even after the cancellation, “I asked… ‘Can you please just tell me how you’re going to end?’ And they wouldn’t tell me,” she said. “I think because, I don’t know, maybe somehow, someway, in some iteration we’ll get to finish it, but I still don’t know. It does still keep me up at night.”
Would you like to see more Westworld? Hit the comments, and let us know!
Put it on Netflix and see what happens! It’s worked for lots of other shows. Look at Suits and Lucifer!
No more Westworld. It was super terrible after season 3. Storylines were all over the place.
I mean, if they’re that committed to the story they want to tell, why did they completely change the storytelling in season 2 because the outcome of season 1 was predicted online? Most people don’t read spoilers online and them changing the storytelling style of the show to be more unpredictable just messed up all the pacing and ensured the pieces felt jagged instead of fitting together neatly like s1.
I agree. Previous seasons should be re-edited in a human-intelligible order, similar to “Arrested Development” S4-Remix on Netflix, on the new broadcaster.
Write a graphic novel?
Would love to see this on Netflix or Hulu- it was such a unique and entertaining show, I really hope they can finish it someday.
Unless Disney buy WB, which owns this current version of Westworld…
Im guessing an amazon prime produced movie.
I’m sure it’ll be resurrected the same day “The Orville” gets a Season 4.
Liked the first season, tolerated the 2nd, don’t remember what happened in the third, didn’t bother watching the 4h. Felt like they lost the point and purpose of the series after inaugural year, and I’m not sure why they’re bothering with a fifth since it’s been an inconsistent mess since then.
Some things aren’t meant to go on for multiple seasons, and Westworld never showed why it should keep going other than for the continued employment of all involved.
Yes, please, yesterday!
Westworld is incredible expensive to make, it would be a poor decision for HBO to bring it back another season -the writing completely fell off after season 2. I’m sure the execs are aware of the critiques they kept getting but fully ignored them.
I wish they’d bring back Raised by Wolves instead, writing was much better and message was deeper.
Yes please. I would love to see more seasons of Westworld.
Wasn’t the show part of the WB write off with The Nevers? Everything happening behind the scenes since covid makes no sense whatsoever. It’s a big mess at studios and we are the one paying the price. Reboots, cancellation, resurrection, canceled resurrection, cancelled reboot, remakes, short season, 3h episodes (looking at you Stranger Things). Not easy being a tv show fan this days.