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While Lisa Joy’s new feature directorial debut Reminiscence isn’t a crossover to her co-created HBO series Westworld, one could easily argue that they’re distant cousins. Both are set in near dystopian futures, where technology reigns and people yearn to be in another reality, not simply their humdrum present day. In…

EXCLUSIVE: Season 4 of Westworld, as we first told you, has returned to filming at the Melody Ranch in Santa Clarita, CA; and in a recent conversation with the co-creator of the HBO series, Lisa Joy, on Deadline’s Hero Nation podcast, we learned some more details on what’s bound to unfold. Joy joined us on Hero Nation…

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has learned that HBO’s fourth season of Westworld is back in production after a two-day shutdown due to a positive Covid test. I understand that production resumed as early as last week and continues at the Melody Ranch studio in Newhall, CA; the Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy series having shot there…

EXCLUSIVE: Westworld is the latest series hit by the pandemic. HBO is to pause production on the fourth season of the sci-fi Western drama series as a result of a positive Covid test. The Warner Bros. TV-produced show recorded a positive test from a production member as part of its rigorous testing scheme and will…

EXCLUSIVE: Aurora Perrineau (Prodigal Son) is set for a key recurring role on the upcoming fourth season of HBO’s Westworld, I have learned. Her character is being kept under wraps but I hear Perrineau is expected to appear in at least five episodes. HBO declined comment. Season 3 picked up three months after the…

EXCLUSIVE: Global VFX house DNEG has bolstered its offering in Los Angeles with the appointment of visual effects supervisor Bryan Godwin. The former founder and CEO of Shade VFX has worked on more than one hundred projects, including Joker, Sonic The Hedgehog, Batman v Superman: Dawn Of Justice, Wolverine, Iron Fist…

“It’s a reboot, really, because we’re in a whole different world,” says Emmy-nominated Westworld production designer Howard Cummings about season 3, which drops us right inside our world –the human one– outside Delos’ robotic theme park. And to create a near future Los Angeles, and a near-tomorrow for San Francisco…

The androids have escaped and they are coming for humanity in Season 3 of the futuristic HBO series Westworld. That plot development, which posed major new challenges for the production team and stars of the show, has resulted in 11 Emmy nominations. Joining me for a deep dive into the making of the season For our…

Warning: This interview contains spoilers from Season 3 of HBO's Westworld. Part of Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy’s m.o. with HBO’s Westworld is breaking archetypes, especially when it comes to redefining the roles of females in westerns, i.e. the pioneer girl or the call girl. With each season, Thandie Newton has…

Today we speak with Westworld EP and writer Denise Thé who takes us inside the writers’ room of one of TV’s most genre-bending shows, and how the socially conscious sci-fi action series clicks in all its nuances. Thé wrote two key episodes this past season, episode 3 “The Absence of Field” in which we step inside…

SPOILER ALERT: This interview contains details from last night’s Season 3 finale of HBO's Westworld, "Crisis Theory." There are too many pressing questions about what went on in Westworld‘s Season 3 finale, so we checked in with co-creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy and executive producer Denise Thé. DEADLINE: So, th…

Warning: This recap contains spoilers from tonight’s Season 3 finale episode of HBO’s Westworld, “Crisis Theory.” Tonight’s episode was written by Denise Thé & Jonathan Nolan; directed by Jennifer Getzinger. We wondered all season long if there were two Men in Blacks, one human and one robotic. It was a burning…