This is per a conversation Paul had at SXSW this week, telling Collider that he hasn’t lost all hope of the long-canceled sci-fi series eventually returning in some form. Promoting his film Ash, the Breaking Bad star noted that, “I do have kind of a sense, and there is a world where maybe we get to tell the rest of that story. I’m not going to say anything, but give it time. I’m still holding onto the idea that we will be able to complete that story. It was very well flushed out. I knew sort of the broad strokes of it all, and it was really cool. But we’ll see.”
Westworld was one of the more notable casualties of the bloodbath that happened in 2022 when Warner Bros. merged with Discovery; series creator Jonathan Nolan had expressed hopes that his corporate overlords would let him have a fifth season to finish out the story, but the show got canceled abruptly, ending on a cliffhanger. (To give some very mild grace to Warner Bros. CEO David Zaslav, it is worth mentioning that the series’ ratings fell off a cliff for its third season, and then off of another one for season 4—despite both seasons featuring some of Nolan and wife/partner Lisa Joy’s most ambitious sci-fi ideas to date. To then retract that grace, it sure as hell doesn’t help that WBD also scrubbed the series from Max shortly after killing it for no especially good reason we can see.) Nolan and Joy—who’ve gone on to have another hit with Fallout, on Prime Video—made comments very similar to Paul’s last year, refusing to give up hope that they might finally come back to the series for one final game.
