HBO has canceled its sci-fi sequence “Westworld” after 4 seasons, in spite of the display’s creators hoping to wrap issues up with a 5th and ultimate season.
The community introduced the cancellation in a remark Friday.
“During the last 4 seasons, [co-creators Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan] have taken audience on a mind-bending odyssey, elevating the bar at each and every step,” the remark from HBO learn. ”We’re drastically thankful to them, along side their immensely gifted solid, manufacturers and workforce, and all of our companions at Kilter Movies, Unhealthy Robotic and Warner Bros. Tv. It’s been a thrill to enroll in them in this adventure.”
Pleasure and Nolan reacted to the cancellation with their very own remarks.
“Making Westworld has been some of the highlights of our careers,” they mentioned by the use of a remark from their manufacturing corporate, Kilter Movies. “We’re deeply thankful to our ordinary solid and workforce for growing those indelible characters and sensible worlds. We’ve been privileged to inform those tales about the way forward for awareness ― each human and past ― within the temporary window of time prior to our AI overlords forbid us from doing so.”
Even though “Westworld” was once successful when it debuted in 2014, Selection notes that rankings fell each and every next season, with a dramatic drop in Season 4, which ended Aug. 14.
Nonetheless, the display was once a buzzy a part of the zeitgeist, nominated for 54 Emmys over time and successful 9, together with the Exceptional Supporting Actress in a Drama award for Thandiwe Newton in 2018.
The sequence premiere of “Westworld” boasted HBO’s perfect viewership for a premiere for the reason that release of “True Detective” in 2014. After that, the primary season of the sci-fi drama was the most-watched freshman yr of any HBO unique sequence ever.
Pleasure and Nolan had was hoping for “Westworld” to conclude after 5 seasons.
Pleasure advised TheWrap in August that she and Nolan “all the time deliberate on finishing the sequence subsequent season,” however famous, presciently, that “existence could make different plans for you.”
In fresh weeks, audience spotted that HBO’s streaming platform, HBO Max, has began eliminating content material in anticipation of a merger with Discovery.
Twitter customers had been melancholic concerning the cancellation.