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‘Westworld’ Core Cast Will Still Be Paid For Season 5 After Cancellation
05.11.2022 - 02:53 / deadline.com
EXCLUSIVE: The door to Westworld was slammed shut today as HBO confirmed that the dystopian sci-fi series will not get a fifth season. It was bad news for anyone associated with the show, led by creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, who had been hoping and advocating for another chapter, but for the main cast, there was some silver lining. I hear they will be paid for Season 5 regardless of the fact that it will not be produced.
According to sources, the core cast had pay-or-play deals for Season 5. I hear the actors’ options came up sometime last year, before Season 4 had aired (its production had been delayed because of the pandemic), and they were exercised. I hear the cast may also have renegotiated their deals at that time.
The move is not unusual, networks sometime pay to secure a cast before a renewal decision is made, especially if the group features big names who would be hard to reassemble without contracts.
Westworld‘s main cast, as listed on the show’s HBO page, is led by Evan Rachel Wood, Thandie Newton, Jeffrey Wright, Ed Harris and Aaron Paul. The quintet represented the series at the 2019 Comic-Con.
Wood, Newton, Wright and Harris are original cast members who previously renegotiated big raises after Season 2 to about $250,000 an episode in Season 3. Paul joined in Season 3.
The salaries the cast is owed for Season 5 are believed to total in the $10M-$15M range. It is not a small chunk of change but Westworld is not a cheap show overall, with its third season budget pegged at $100M, or about $10M an episode, so proceeding with a fifth season would’ve cost HBO north of $80M.
According to sources, the cancellation decision came down to the same criteria Netflix uses for their renewal decisions,
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