HBO has canceled Westworld, however the information isn’t all dangerous for the solid of the sci-fi collection.
According to Deadline, core Westworld solid members will nonetheless be paid for the now-canceled fifth season as a result of they’d “pay-or-play deals” that networks usually deploy to lock down a TV present’s solid for one more season, even earlier than community execs resolve whether or not to resume or cancel the present.
The solid members listed on HBO’s Westworld homepage are Evan Rachel Wood, Thandiwe Newton, Jeffrey Wright, and Ed Harris — who negotiated raises to the $250,000-per-episode vary after Season 2 — and Aaron Paul — who joined the collection in its third season. Tessa Thompson and James Marsden additionally star.
The website additionally notes that the solid’s Season 5 salaries whole $10 million to $15 million, however HBO would have spent $80 million or extra to movie one other season of the FX-heavy collection.
HBO reportedly canceled Westworld after weighing the present’s viewership with its price, very like how Netflix makes renew-cancel choices. According to TV Series Finale, Westworld had averages of 1.8 million viewers for Season 1, 1.6 million for Season 2, 0.8 million for Season 3, and 0.3 million for Season 4.
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Co-creator Lisa Joy informed TV Insider in August that she and the opposite Westworld producers deliberate on a fifth season “to have Dolores [Wood’s character], who was at the mercy of everyone else’s stories, finally tell her own story.”
But HBO introduced the present’s cancellation on Friday, November 4. “Over the past four seasons, Lisa and [co-creator Jonathan Nolan] have taken viewers on a mind-bending odyssey, raising the bar at every step,” the community stated in a press release, per The Hollywood Reporter. “We are tremendously grateful to them, along with their immensely talented cast, producers and crew, and all of our partners at Kilter Films, Bad Robot and Warner Bros. Television. It’s been a thrill to join them on this journey.”
Kilter Films, Joy and Nolan’s manufacturing firm, added: “We’ve been privileged to tell these stories about the future of consciousness — both human and beyond — in the brief window of time before our AI overlords forbid us from doing so.”
Westworld, Seasons 1-4, Streaming now, HBO Max