HBO's 'Westworld' Won't Be Back Until 2018, Creators Address Delay
Westworld concluded its opening season, which came with a bang and broke out massively for HBO, on Sunday night. The series is one of five television dramas nominated for a 2017 Writers Guild Award, and ratings soared for the series.
Speaking to Variety regarding the second season, creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy addressed why the show has been pushed to 2018. "We've started working on scripts and outlines. It's looking good. It's looking very ambitious," Joy said. "There's some surprises and bits of it that you won't see coming. I'm having fun."
"It’s an ambitious project, and HBO has encouraged us to take the time and resources that we need to work on each stage of that. I love television. One of the fun things about television is that sometimes you find yourself in this place where you have to wear all these hats at once," said Nolan.
"You have to write, shoot, and cut simultaneously. We wanted to in the second season spend some more time writing, then switch gears into production, then cut. So we’re not going to follow the annual year-on-year tradition of television. Television’s changing. And the ambition of the project is such that we’re going to take our time to get the second season right.
"We won’t be on the air until 2018. We started that conversation with the network when were shooting episode two and we realized the complexity of trying to write and produce the show at the same time. We both work in the movie business as well, and in the movie business the best that you can possibly hope for with a film franchise is to turn around another installment in two or three years. So really on that schedule, we’re doing great."
Source: Variety
