The issues Westworld was exploring went from “sci-fi to documentary film” through the years, according to co-creator Lisa Joy, who hinted at what a fifth season of the HBO smash could have looked like.
Delivering a Series Mania keynote, Joy said that advances in AI and the invention of ChatGPT mean that Westworld’s subject matter has become more relevant and contemporaneous of late. “These topics will continue to be explored if not in Westworld then in other series, taking [the topic] to new levels,” she said, in conversation with Deadline. “I think it’s an area rife with possibility.” Westworld was cancelled by HBO Max after four seasons late last year and both Joy and co-creator Jonathan Nolan have said they would have liked it to continue for a fifth and final instalment.
Roku and Tubi have since picked up the show’s back catalog. Throughout the series, which lasted for six years from 2016, Joy explained the issues Westworld was exploring “went from sci-fi to documentary film.” Questioned on the looming writers’ strike, Joy said that while she can “manage without shows for a while,” she backs the Writers’ Guild to “act for the collective good.” “It’s very scary for everyone,” added Joy. “We don’t have a social safety net in the U.S.
or healthcare even so even if you get a staffer job on a show there’s no guarantee that you will get another job immediately.
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