We know one of those is Samurai World, but there’s scope for things to go much larger. Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. In the background were what appeared to be an Asian couple — again, people we never saw in the "Westworld" theme park. As with William and Logan’s adventures secretly unfolding thirty years prior, much of the show relies on assuming different scenes are connected while they’re not. Whether or not we'll be exploring this new world or how it will come into play remains to be seen. The lingering question is how many parks are there aside from Westworld? Images added to that category turn up in the gallery after a short time.
Screen Rant's Managing Editor, Alex Leadbeater has been covering film online since 2012 and been a permanent fixture of SR since 2016. The finale episode of Westworld dropped an intriguing glimpse of the scope of Delos' operation - so what's the deal with the mysterious 'S-World'? Inside were Asian men all wearing suits of armor with a pair of men sword fighting in the background. The world features a strong military presence, reflecting the military rule and political uncertainty of the Japanese period. The big question, now, is what worlds are next? Shōgunworld Let your true self take shape in the land where self-discovery is an art form. From confirming fan theories to nailing a few huge twists, the 90-minute episode did an excellent job tying up most loose ends and setting up mysteries for next season. The go-to source for comic book and superhero movie fans. Thus Shogunworld being the second park which takes inspiration and reworks storylines from Westworld can be seen as a nod to the overall reference to the influences of genre. 0.

Uprising, escape or a new robot nation? Many of the narratives within Shogunworld were written by Head of Narrative Lee Sizemore who - claiming to be under stress from writing so many storylines for differing characters across all parks - reworked several storylines of Hosts from Westworld.
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After all, this would be a pretty big info dump for the host as, crucially, S-World doesn’t appear to be the only other park out there. So, what’s the deal with Samurai World (or possibly Shōgun, but we’ll go with the former)? Location type This resulted in the casting of actual Japanese actors speaking in all Japanese dialogue while the Western based actors spoke their natural languages.

Quite literally however, Shogunworld's design and layout was an inverse of Sweetwater. The rich seasonal bounties of Japan are all available to guests, from the snow-topped coniferous mountainscapes to the bright autumnal Koyo, from the regenerative fields of cherry blossom to the summer greenery along the coast. And it appears creators Nolan and Lisa Joy thought so as well. As discussed previously, it alters how the location question is asked; not only is the Delos complex much larger than previously assumed, making placing it even harder, but as we’ve at the very least got a replica of feudal Japan alongside the wild west, then we most certainly aren’t really in Utah.

Maeve's escape attempt took her and her followers through the inner workings of the Westworld facility, all the way from "WW" to a new area with the logo "SW". All the latest gaming news, game reviews and trailers. "Park 1" suggests that the Delos team has expanded to new worlds beyond Westworld in the 35 years since Arnold and Ford began their project together. Park two. But what if you, like cinemagoers after the 1960s, don’t like westerns? HBO. And with that said, we come to the most important element of the reveal; what part, if any, does Samurai World and its ilk play in Ford’s new narrative and Season 2? Delos has multiple versions of these synthetic parks, previously said that there wouldn't be a Medieval or Roman World, 'Westworld' actor dishes on his character's twist and whether or not he'll be back in season 2, The 'Westworld' finale had a satisfying end-credits scene you may have missed. And during the course of the first "Westworld" season, there were clues that there could be other Delos parks. It is unknown when Shogunworld was exactly built as it is not featured in flashbacks in the pasts of Robert Ford or Arnold Webber when they first designed the Hosts. He's covered a wide range of movies and TV shows - from digging out obscure MCU Easter eggs to diving deep into deeper meanings of arthouse fare - and has covered a litany of set visits, junkets and film festivals. Despite a brief jaunt in Mathematics at Durham University, film writing was always his calling. Modeled after Japan's Edo period, Shogun World offers a chance for guests to embrace their inner warrior, in a landscape of highest beauty and darkest horror. Westworld's Samurai Robots Explained. A quick screenshot of the second listing confirms Samurai World is Park 2, with the logo matching the SW teased in the Westworld Season 1 finale. Although at the time only its logo and several Japanese Edo Period hosts were shown. By Alex Leadbeater Dec 06, 2016.

Shōgunworld is one of the Delos Destinations theme parks.

Shogunworld was first teased in the finale of Season 1 of Westworld.

You may have also seen/heard him on the Total Geekall podcast, unaffiliated YouTube channels, BBC Radio and CBC News. Comment. The Western genre in the mid 20th century in film took much inspiration from then rising Japanese Samurai and historical films down to character archetypes, tropes, and even stories. On that meta level, those two genres have this almost incestuous relationship with each other. It’d be safe to assume that the creator’s reveries and meddling with consciousness didn’t extend beyond Westworld (although, as discussed in the previous paragraph, not out of the question), but now a fully conscious Dolores and an emotionally-charged, if not-so-freethinking Maeve are out there with a good chunk of the board dead (and the primary shareholder presumably having the time of his life with real stakes), things won’t be contained to a single park for long.

It's something that fans of the original movie weren't at all surprised to see. Subscriber No!". Map Ever since the show was announced back in 2013, fans of the original have wondered whether we’d get to see updated versions of those parks (with some even erroneously theorising at one point that the show doubled as a sequel to the original film). https://westworld.fandom.com/wiki/Shōgunworld?oldid=33040. The finale episode of Westworld dropped an intriguing glimpse of the scope of Delos' operation - so what's the deal with the mysterious 'S-World'? The first season of "Westworld" had perhaps one of the most satisfying season finales of all time. "Shōgunworld" is park two at Delos Destinations, intended for those who find Westworld too tame.

For all the rampaging robots, it’s not hard to see the appeal of Westworld. The most famous being Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, a Samurai film set in medieval Japan, being remade into The Magnificent Seven, a Western set at the height of the Old West. When asked about this at the start of the show’s run by SlashFilm, Jonathan Nolan was rather straight and to the point, yet oddly specific: "You said Roman World and Medieval World, right? Shōgunworld is a Delos destination modeled and influenced by the Edo period in Japan. Like what you see here? MCU Actors Defend Chris Pratt After Online Backlash, Spider-Man: Kindred's True Identity Raises More Questions Than It Answers, Noita Review: Punishingly Fun, Poorly Explained, Michael Keaton Jokes All 127 Batman Actors Are In The Flash Movie, New PlayStation Store Goes Live With PS5 Pre-Orders, 90 Day Fiance: Why Zied Hakimi's New Hairstyle & Body Transformation Shocks Fans, The Films You'll Never Get to See Became Comic Book Gold, Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker's Force Dyad Creates A Jedi/Sith Plot Hole, Avengers Theory: Loki Was Always Under The Mind Stone's Control, Assassin's Creed Valhalla Expansions Let You Invade Ireland & Paris, James Bond 26's Best Idea Is Rebooting It To The 1960s, Lovecraft Country: Why [SPOILER] Is Likely Dead For Good, KUWTK: Kim Settles $6.1 Million Lawsuit With Paris Robbery Bodyguard, Exclusive: Legend of Korra: Art of the Animated Series, The Watcher Has Returned To Save Marvel's Universe, Fallout 76 Goes Free-To-Play This Week To Celebrate The End Of The World, Borderlands Gets 3 New Skill Trees In Upcoming Designer’s Cut DLC. Delos Destinations theme park Another tiny moment from earlier on in episode six was when Maeve saw hosts being washed down as she toured the Delos headquarters with Felix. The reveal coming so late in the game, after nine weeks of speculation centred on Westworld as a singular entity, prompts some pretty big questions about the scale of the show and where it could be heading in season 2. Based in London, he oversees a global news & features team based in NY, LA and beyond. Some of my favorite movies are the Sergio Leone adaptations of the Akira Kurosawa samurai films: The Seven Samurai and The Magnificent Seven. It also raises a question of the scope of the operation. We couldn’t say 'no,' because we wanted to go in a slightly different direction," Nolan told Entertainment Weekly. It’s entirely possible that on rewatch several sequences involving Ford, Bernard, Theresa and Charlotte discussing the park, hosts and Delos in general are revealed to be vague to the point of potentially being about another World. Active In the period when the Western was the biggest genre in the world, the interplay between Westerns and samurai films in … Looking for smart ways to get more from life? Though co-creator Jonathan Nolan had previously said that there wouldn't be a Medieval or Roman World, the thought of Westworld hosts escaping and being able to run amok in other lands was extremely intriguing to fans.

He once asked Tom Cruise about his supposedly fake-butt in Valkyrie (he swore it was all real). In the period when the Western was the biggest genre in the world, the interplay between Westerns and samurai films in the domestic market in Japan was really cool. Whatever they're planning, it's going to involve the Samurai; a game-changing finale wouldn’t have introduced the concrete existence of other parks if it wasn’t going to be essential in show's future. A one-stop shop for all things video games. Growing up in the English countryside on a mixture of Star Wars, The Simpsons and Aardman, Alex is a lifelong movie obsessive. "Something we’re constantly asked is, 'Is there a Roman World and Medieval World?' Account active The entire theme park isn't just based around an 1800s Western society, but it includes a Medieval World and a Roman World, too. Further on, the form of Japanese spoken was the Edo Period dialect which is an older more formal spoken Japanese which the Shogunworld actors did not naturally speak. The note Felix gives Maeve detailing the location of her daughter cites that she’s in “Park 1”. In the 1973 "Westworld," the mysterious corporation Delos has multiple versions of these synthetic parks. The numbering is likely low to give the writers an easy get out if the show’s direction changes over time, but all the required groundwork for Roman, Medieval and Futureworld (or others) has been laid. Only the behind-the-scenes robotic workshops were shown, unsurprisingly of the same sterile structure to Westworld’s but with one big difference: instead of gunslingers the hosts were Samurai. Some of my favorite movies are the Sergio Leone adaptations of the Akira Kurosawa samurai films: The Seven Samurai and The Magnificent Seven. This is demonstrated with the introduction of the ronin Musashi who is Shogunworld's counterpart to Hector Escaton and their respective counter parts Akane and Maeve Millay. by Maeve, responds with "It's complicated".

Subscribe to our daily newsletter to get more of it. Scenery The season finale revealed why his words were chosen so carefully; it introduced a totally new park complete with its own logo, S-World.


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