“Westworld” Showrunners Tease Dolores’s S3 Plans

It’ll certainly may be awhile until we get season 3 of HBO’s “Westworld,” so it comes as little surprise that co-showrunners (and married couples-goals team) Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan can’t say much about what’s to come for the denizens of Delos Park.

While speaking with Entertainment Weekly, Nolan did promise that “Westworld” season 3 will be “a little less of a guessing game and more of an experience with the hosts finally getting to meet their makers.”

“We’re looking at the aftermath of the massacre in the park,” Joy revealed. “After all they went through to get out of the park, Dolores finally got what she wanted, so we wanted to see how she interacts with the world and what her plan is. That’s a part of the story we were excited to tell.”

“I love shows that find a groove and hang with it for 100 episodes — that was never this show. We always wanted every season to find our characters in radically different circumstances. And with a cast this talented, watching the metamorphosis of all these characters is one of the most fun parts,” Nolan continued.

How about the addition of “Breaking Bad” star Aaron Paul to the cast? We first got to see a glimpse of him in the teaser for s3.

“Aaron’s character [construction worker in Los Angeles named Caleb who has a strong impact on Dolores, who along with other hosts experiences major “culture shock” now that she’s in the real world] will challenge Dolores’ notions about the nature of humanity,” Nolan says. “He’s the type of person who doesn’t get to go to Westworld.”

And what about possible new settings for this season?

“Part of the story plays out in the Western United States, and that’s a thematic through-line in the show — the American West as a setting and an ethos,” Nolan says. “The idea of the West as a wild place, where just over the next hill or horizon there are no rules. On that thematic level, Dolores emerges to figure out what happened to the real West. And the answer is: We paved the thing over, and civilization eventually caught up with all those people who were running away from it.”

At present, there is no known release date for season 3 of “Westworld,” but we’re expecting an update on that this weekend during San Diego Comic-Con (SDCC). We’ll let you know what we hear.