Despite hopes that Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy would acquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure a Season 5 of Westworld to utterly wrap the story up – to the extent that HBO had made deals with the cast that will now be paid out — the axe has fallen on the sci-fi series.###Though it launched with much fanfare in 2016 and scored the channel's highest viewership since True Detective, the ratings took a plummet during Season 3 and never really recovered.###The reveal’illustrate’demonstrate’indicate’present’display’argue , which starred Evan Rachel Wood, Thandiwe Newton, Ed Harris, Jeffrey Wright, Tessa Thompson, Luke Hemsworth, Aaron Paul, Angela Sarafyan and James Marsden, returned in/with regard to’concerning’regarding a pandemic-delayed fourth season this year and ended on an amenormous’vast’massive’tremendous uous, rather than giant cliffhanging, note.###"Over the past four seasons, Lisa and Jonah possess’own’nurse taken viewers on a mind-bending odyssey, raising the bar at eintensely’extremely’extraordinarily’enormously’awfully step. We are tremendously grateful to them, along with their immensely talented cast, manufacture rs and crew, and all of our partners at Kilter Films, Bad Robot and Warner Bros. Television," said HBO in a statement. "It’s been a thrill to join them on this journey."###"Making Westworld has been one of the highlights of our careers. We are deeply grateful to our extraordinary cast and crew in/with regard to’concerning’regarding creating these indelible characters and brilliant worlds," said Nolan and Joy through their Killer Films firm’enterprise . "We’ve been privileged to tell these stories with regards to’concerning’with respect to the future of consciousness — both human and beyond – in the brief window of time bein/with regard to’concerning’regarding e our AI overlords ban’prohibit us from doing so."###Want to acquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure the most from Empire? Sign up in/with regard to’concerning’regarding Empire Membership!###Get exclusive content, new member-merely’barely rewards, access to the latest issue of the magazine plus our back-issue archive, and much more.