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  • ‘Westworld’ Season 2 Premiere Will Be One of Multiple Extra-Long Episodes

    Expect to go to bed late on April 22 — the “Westworld” Season 2 premiere is going to be a long one.

    The show’s co-creators, Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan, are busy promoting their HBO drama’s sophomore season, and they recently teased multiple episodes that extend beyond 60 minutes, starting with the premiere. Like last year’s inaugural episode, the first of Season 2 will give us plenty of bang for our buck. Joy and Nolan told EW the first episode of “Westworld” Season 2 will surpass 70 minutes in length.

    Later in the season, we’ll get to see some more supersized episodes. The co-creators named Episode 4 as another that will last more than an hour. Finally, to end the season, they’ll give us an episode that they say is “a bit of an epic” and keeps “going and going.” That’s also consistent with Season 1, which concluded with 90-plus-minute finale.

    Those are all good things to hear. The show has a lot of ground to cover, especially after its explosive developments at the end of the first season. We’ll be ready to settle in for some long ones.

    “Westworld” returns April 22 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on HBO.

    [via: EW]

  • ‘Westworld’ Creators Making Futuristic New Drama For Amazon

    Los Angeles Season 2 Premiere of the HBO Drama Series WESTWORLDThe creators of HBO’s “Westworld” are set to explore technology’s affect on society in the future again, this time on Amazon.

    Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy will produce the show, which is based on William Gibson’s futuristic sci-fi novel “The Peripheral.” Amazon outbid other competitors and gave the project a script-to-series order, bypassing the usual pilot process. Scott B. Smith, the Oscar-nominated screenwriter of 1998’s “A Simple Plan,” will pen the script and produce alongside Nolan and Joy.

    The thriller follows Flynne Fisher, a woman in near-future America in which technology has started to subtly alter society. She temporarily takes her brother’s security job in a video game/virtual world, but Flynne soon discovers a hidden connection to a very different reality — and the dark future of her own. She witnesses what may have been a murder, which plunges her into a deep, twisting mystery.

    Gibson is considered the founder of the sci-fi subgenre known as cyberpunk and coined the term “cyberspace” in his 1982 short story “Burning Chrome.” “The Peripheral” also has a sequel, “Agency,” which will be published this month.

    Nolan and Joy, of course, have had plenty of success adapting sci-fi novels into TV shows, as they did with Michael Crichton’s “Westworld.” The HBO drama reaped 22 Emmy nominations and was the network’s most-watched freshman drama ever. The second season premieres April 22.

  • ‘Westworld’ Creators Release Season 2 ‘Spoiler’ Video as Promised

    As with everything on “Westworld,” even spoilers come with a twist.

    Yesterday on Reddit, “Westworld” creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy did an “Ask Me Anything” session, during which they addressed the spoilers, theories, and speculation that surrounded/plagued Season 1. Some Redditors guessed some of the show’s twists and turns, which was then reported by major media outlets, which spoiled a lot of non-spoiler seeking fans.

    To deal with the issue, Nolan and Joy said they would post a video that spoiled the entire second season.

    “Everything. The whole sordid thing. Up front,” they wrote. “That way the members of the community here who want the season spoiled for them can watch ahead, and then protect the rest of the community, and help to distinguish between what’s ‘theory’ and what’s spoiler.”

    That video was released, as promised, but well, there’s a twist. It starts off with Jeffrey Wright as Bernard musing about memories. And then Evan Rachel Wood (Dolores) and Angela Sarafyan (who plays Clementine) show up and begin reciting the lyrics to …

    Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up.”

    “Westworld” fans just got Rickrolled.

    Rickrolling is one of the oldest Internet memes and involves a bait and switch, with a user clicking on a link that actually sends them to a video of Astley’s song. It’s a pretty funny move by Nolan, who not only is a trick-loving filmmaker (he co-wrote “The Prestige”) but is a longtime Redditor.

    “Westworld” Season 2 premieres April 22 on HBO.