HBO Cancels ‘Westworld’ After 4 Seasons

“Westworld” received’t be returning for a fifth season.

Selection is reporting that HBO has determined to cancel the sci-fi sequence after 4 seasons, reportedly because of the mixture of the present’s shrinking viewership and its excessive manufacturing prices (reportedly greater than $9 million per episode).

The sequence, created by the husband-and-wife producing workforce of Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Pleasure, centred round a mysterious amusement park populated by lifelike androids, boasting a solid that included Evan Rachel Wooden, Thandiwe Newton, Ed Harris, Jeffrey Wright, Tessa Thompson, Luke Hemsworth, Aaron Paul, Angela Sarafyan and James Marsden, with Ariana DeBose, Aurora Perrineau and Daniel Wu becoming a member of within the fourth season.

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“Over the previous 4 seasons, Lisa and Jonah have taken viewers on a mind-bending odyssey, elevating the bar at each step,” an HBO spokesperson stated in an announcement. “We’re tremendously grateful to them, together with their immensely proficient solid, producers and crew, and all of our companions at Kilter Movies, Unhealthy Robotic and Warner Bros. Tv. It’s been a thrill to affix them on this journey.”

Nolan and Pleasure additionally responded to the cancellation. “Making ‘Westworld’ has been one of many highlights of our careers,” they stated in their very own assertion. “We’re deeply grateful to our extraordinary solid and crew for creating these indelible characters and good worlds. We’ve been privileged to inform these tales about the way forward for consciousness — each human and past – within the temporary window of time earlier than our AI overlords forbid us from doing so.”