For the past seven years, showrunners Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan have dedicated their professional lives to “Westworld,” HBO’s sprawling and cerebral sci-fi series loosely based on Michael Crichto…
Nolan smiles. “Rico is an obvious parody of our algorithmic gig economy drawn to the extreme,” he says. “It’s facilitated in part by the idea of the blockchain. I don’t think people understand how seismic that shift is going to be.
“But it is undeniable that [one’s] choices are strongly influenced by exterior factors, but now, the strings of the fates are further and further away from your eyes. You can’t see their hands moving anymore, so you don’t understand what’s being tugged.”Suffice it to say, speaking with the two of them together for even a short period of time makes clear just how much of “Westworld” is built from, well, let’s say their base code.
That started with the exteriors. Nolan gestures at the drab stone edifices just outside his office. “This is L.A.’s uniquely broken zoning laws, but I can’t look at a building out the window that was built in the last 40 years,” he says as Joy chuckles at her husband’s familiar complaint. “Most of our urban environment is hand-me-down, and the future is, frankly, a little disappointing. We’re living in it now. I imagined it when I was a teenager, and it’s not what I thought it was going to be.
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