HBO Cancels ‘Westworld’ After 4 Seasons, Solid To Be Paid For Season 5

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

Selection is reporting that HBO has determined to cancel the sci-fi collection 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 collection, 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 a press release. “We’re tremendously grateful to them, together with their immensely gifted solid, producers and crew, and all of our companions at Kilter Movies, Dangerous Robotic and Warner Bros. Tv. It’s been a thrill to hitch 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 transient window of time earlier than our AI overlords forbid us from doing so.”

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Whereas the fifth season gained’t be taking place, the core solid of the present might be nonetheless be paid.

Based on Deadline, sources report that the solid had “pay-or-play” offers with the fifth season, which means they’ll accumulate their salaries no matter whether or not or not that collection is produced.

These sources additionally estimated the price of paying out these salaries to be within the $10 million to $15 million vary — which nonetheless represented a value financial savings for HBO’s father or mother firm, Warner Bros. Discovery, on condition that the whole price of manufacturing a brand new “Westworld” season would have exceeded $80 million.