HBO Suddenly Cancels Their Ambitious Sci-Fi Series

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HBO Suddenly Cancels Their Ambitious Sci-Fi Series


After 4 seasons, HBO’s bold sequence “Westworld” from showrunners Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan is formally ending. “Westworld” was primarily about sentient robots, aka hosts, created for a lavish theme park for the extraordinarily wealthy the place “anything goes.” Eventually, after killing a heap of people, they make their approach exterior the park right into a dystopian future society.

“Westworld” was truly renewed for a fifth and ultimate season in August, however clearly, below the brand new management of David Zaslav at Warner Bros. Discovery, who’s taking a tough take a look at information, price, and numbers, HBO was compelled to renege on this determination.

This unlucky information was introduced through Deadline and comes after diminishing scores within the final couple of seasons (see scores information under), together with present creators Nolan/Joy singing an enormous general growth take care of Amazon again in 2019 whereas the sequence was nonetheless lively. The inventive duo has additionally been behind the brand new cyberpunk sequence “The Peripheral” based mostly on the William Gibson novel, the Hugh Jackman-led sci-fi thriller “Reminiscence,” and the upcoming sequence adaptation of the favored post-apocalypse online game, “Fallout.” Some could argue their give attention to the sequence acquired stretched too skinny after season two and that the Amazon deal and “Westworld” stored taking massive dangers in twists that began to alienate audiences after its hit first season.

READ MORE: Lisa Joy Talks’ Reminiscence,’ The Future Of ‘Westworld,’ ‘Blade Runner’ & More [The Fourth Wall Podcast]

The present’s improbable forged consists of Evan Rachel Wood, Jeffrey Wright, Ed Harris, Thandiwe Newton, James Marsden, Tessa Thompson, Luke Hemsworth, Angela Sarafyan, Aaron Paul, Anthony Hopkins, Ben Barnes, Jimmi Simpson, Shannon Woodward, Zahn McClarnon, Rodrigo Santoro, Clifton Collins Jr., Vincent Cassel, and Tommy Flanagan.

If you weren’t conscious, the unique movie from 1973 was written and directed by the late creator Michael Crichton (“Jurassic Park”). It targeted on a futuristic theme park of sensible robots created by superior science that finally rebelled and began killing human patrons. “Magnificent Seven” actor Yul Brynner performed the primary killer robotic from the western-themed park, which clearly helped encourage different sci-fi tasks like “The Terminator.” In the HBO sequence, different park divisions began to open up, equivalent to Shōgunworld and Warworld.

Season 4 of “Westworld” ended again in August, concluding the present’s run, however clearly, all of the forged and creators thought they initially had yet another kick on the can of ending the story correctly.



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