Will HBO's WESTWORLD Characters Visit Roman World or Medieval World?
If you've seen Michael Crichton's 1973 film Westworld, on which the new HBO series is loosely based, then you know the scope of the theme parks is a little larger than what we saw in the pilot of the TV adaptation. Aside from the old west-themed Westworld, there's a Roman World and a Medieval World, and in the 1976 sequel Futureworld (which Crichton had nothing to do with), the Delos Corporation — the ones responsible for building the park — opened new areas called Spaworld and Futureworld for guests to visit. But will we see any of those in the show?
Inverse spoke with production designer Zack Grobler, who revealed that
“For the first season, we only explore the West World. There’s talk about in the future seasons, if there’s more, that there will be a different world. But we’re not sure what it will be yet.”
We know the network has big plans for the show, giving producers Jonathan Nolan, Lisa Joy, and J.J. Abrams enough time to come up with a storyline that will play out over five seasons if the audience responds well enough to keep the show on the air. If the positive response to the pilot is any indication, people seem to be really digging the show so far, and I'm hopeful that they'll be able to explore all of this stuff in more detail in upcoming episodes and seasons. That'll be sort of weird, though, if the characters leave Westworld behind and move into Futureworld, for example, but the show is still called Westworld.
HBO has released the full pilot online, which I've embedded below, and you can read my review of the pilot right here.