When HBO launched Westworld in 2016, the hype was unreal. Seemingly, every sci-fi/fantasy critic in the world was ready to love it before it even came out, and when the twisty series from Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy actually dropped, various bonkers fan theories started coming true. Westworld quickly redefined — for better or worse — the modern mystery box show. Is now now? Is this person really that person, or are they not that person with another person's memoirs? What if one person had several copies inside of other people?
For all the excellent sci-fi musings within Westworld about the nature of artificial life and the frighteningly slippery ethics of technological empires, the plotting of the show was, even to its biggest fans, a dizzying hall of mirrors in which figuring out who was who and what was what could be even more confusing than what anyone wanted. So, with the announcement that Jurassic Park legend David Koepp is penning a reboot film of Westworld, the natural question from a sane person would be: Why?
