We're now around two months since the fourth season finale of Westworld aired and we still haven't heard any updates regarding its renewal for a fifth season. For years, we've been hearing that the creators have a five-season plan for the series which led to some fans assuming that the series will get renewed for a fifth season despite the lack of updates about its fate.
Now, in a recent appearance at New York Comic-Con to promote their new Amazon series The Peripheral (via Deadline), Westworld co-creator Jonathan Nolan was asked by a fan for an update about the fifth season renewal to which he revealed that they are still in negotiations with HBO regarding it.
"We always planned for a fifth and final season," he said. "We are still in conversations with the network. We very much hope to make them."
While it is worrying that we still don't have any updates on the fifth season, Nolan's recent comments sound very encouraging since it is an indication that they are still in talks with the network about doing a fifth season in order to fulfill its plan and give it a proper closure just like what they intended and what fans are hoping for.
Right now, it is hard to tell whether the series does end up getting renewed for a fifth and final season considering that HBO is now under the management of Warner Bros. Discovery, which has been axing a lot of projects recently. At the very least, we have an assurance that they are still trying to make it happen.
A lot of fans are hopeful that the series will get a final season in order to get the closure that they wanted for the series and the creators will also be able to execute their five-year plan as they intended from the beginning.
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The first four seasons of Westworld are available to stream on HBO Max.
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