The restructuring of HBO Max by Warner Bros. Discovery led to the sniping of many of the series favorites of its users, having among the most painful Westworld, which was going to end in its next season.
However, beyond the audience data, it seems that HBO’s reasons for canceling Westworld and removing it even from the HBO Max catalog were mainly due to the fact that the series was too expensive to produce.
The cancellation of one of the most popular HBO Max series was for financial reasons
As Deadline collects, Westworld was unique in the list of canceled HBO series because the production was too expensive and left them with very large debts.
“According to reports, HBO was still on the hook for paying hundreds of millions of dollars when the decision was made to pull the series from HBO Max.since the costs are amortized over time”, it is detailed.
This fuels previous rumors that the company had to pay the main Westworld cast for the fifth and final season of the series that ultimately did not occur, although neither HBO nor Warner Bros. Discovery have commented publicly on this matter.
Although Westworld has been removed from the HBO Max catalog, the company recently announced that both this and other canceled series would migrate to Tubi and Roku, ad-supported third-party streaming services where such titles can be viewed for free.
However, actors in the series such as Luke Hemsworth showed their dissatisfaction with the westworld cancellationcalling HBO’s decision “disappointing” and lamenting the fact that the series’ narrative will not “come full circle” as originally intended.
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