Westworld has always impressed viewers with its gorgeous parks where the hosts live throughout their existence. However, Season 3 is finally bringing Dolores and the other hosts into the real world and it's just as stunning as the parks we have already visited. So what is the inspiration behind the HBO show's new world? Series co-creator Jonathan Nolan admits that it had a lot to do with Blade Runner.
Nolan recently unveiled the new trailer for Westworld Season 3 at the show's panel at San Diego Comic-Con. In addition to that, he shared an interesting story about how his brother and fellow filmmaker Chris Nolan influenced him into creating dystopia for the series.
"My brother made me watch Blade Runner maybe once a week, kind of a weird thing, but no, it's a phenomenal movie," Nolan said (via The Playlist). "That movie is such a brilliantly designed and produced film and when you think of what the future looks like you think of that film. And we wanted to find something a bit different because we got Blade Runner set in 2019 and we got there and it doesn't look like that, but the thing about dystopias is it can look pretty beautiful."
Nolan continued by stating that the dystopia in Westworld Season 3 is just as dark as the one seen in Blade Runner despite its sleek look.
"Just because the world is corrupt on the inside doesn't mean it can't be smoothed over and pretty on the outside. So we wanted to find ourselves a version of a dystopia that didn't look like anything we'd seen before. And we've been kind of planning this from the beginning. We were writing the pilot trying to figure out how are we going to shoot Season 3? And the answer was rather than building it because that's one option, we went looking for it. We got on a plane and we flew around and we dragged all these lovely people all over the place and we found some pretty rad stuff," he said.
The dark and gritty truth can be glimpsed in the Season 3 trailer but there is little doubt we'll see more of the Blade Runner influence once the show returns to HBO.
Westworld Season 3 is set to premiere on HBO in 2020.
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