Greater than two years after Westworld was canceled, collection star Aaron Paul stays hopeful that the present will return for a fifth and remaining season.
Created by Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Pleasure, Westworld premiered on HBO in October 2016 to main success, incomes optimistic opinions from critics and followers whereas additionally turning into the most-watched first season of any HBO unique collection on the time. The collection, primarily based on the 1973 movie by Michael Crichton, was primarily set in Westworld, a fictional, technologically superior Wild-West-themed amusement park populated by androids often called “hosts.” The final two seasons modified the collection’ setting to the actual world, revealing that folks’s lives are pushed and managed by a robust synthetic intelligence.
What did Aaron Paul say about Westworld Season 5?
Paul, who joined the solid of Westworld in Season 3 as Caleb Nichols, just lately instructed ComicBook.com that Nolan has revealed to him how the present was supposed to finish. “I’m nonetheless holding out [hope] . . . I’ve the very, very broad strokes. [Co-creator Jonathan Nolan] crammed me in slightly bit,” he shared. “We’re nonetheless plotting to perhaps do one thing, I don’t wish to get anybody’s hopes up, however we actually do wish to have a full circle second with that. So we’ll see.”
Westworld’s cancellation in November 2022 was seen as a shock by its fandom. Regardless of the later seasons seeing extra combined opinions from critics and a decline in viewership, most anticipated that HBO would enable Nolan and Pleasure the chance to see the story via on their phrases.
Nolan beforehand spoke on his intentions to wrap up Westworld’s bold story in April 2024, stating, “Sure, one hundred pc. We’re completionists. It took me eight years and a change of director to get Interstellar made. We’d like to complete the story we began.”
He continued, “By way of ending the story, you perceive that you just get the time that you just get, typically it’s as a lot as you need, typically it’s not. I’m so fucking happy with what we made. It was a unprecedented expertise. I feel 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.”
Westworld is at present accessible to stream on Tubi.
