Best of Summer: How The “Westworld” Makeup Effects Team Built Body Doubles & More in Season 4

As we’ve done for the past few summers, we’ve compiled a few of our favorite interviews to highlight in this last week of August. This is by no means a comprehensive list, but a little taste of some of the great conversations we’ve had during these hot summer months. Bring on sweater season. 

Every season of Westworld is an ambitious undertaking, requiring hundreds of talented artists to create HBO’s gorgeously wrought sci-fi puzzle box.

“Westworld” Costume Designer Debra Beebe on Living in Charlotte Hale’s World

Westworld season four wrapped this past Sunday after a dizzyingly twisted 8-episode arc, burrowing ever deeper into the rabbit hole of a post-human world. As ever, Westworld remains one of the most ambitious shows on television, and season four has arguably been the series’ most devilishly complex yet. With the line between “real” and synthetic obliterated ever since the hosts slipped the confines of the original theme park and infiltrated the real world,

How The “Westworld” Makeup Effects Team Built Body Doubles & More in Season 4

Every season of Westworld is an ambitious undertaking, requiring hundreds of talented artists to create HBO’s gorgeously wrought sci-fi puzzle box. Season 4 has been especially complex, owing to the fact that the line between “real” and synthetic, between host and human, has been blurred to the vanishing point. Season one’s western-themed rebellion story, in which the synthetic hosts of the titular park eventually rebelled against their human abusers, is now a distant memory as some of those hosts wield enormous power and control over their human subjects in the real world.

From “Westworld” to “Perry Mason” – Quixote is a Studio Service Company in Shining Armor

If you spot Star Trailers on the streets of Los Angeles, you may not be surprised to see the Quixote brand on the side. After all, Quixote Studios is the entertainment industry’s premier studio and equipment rental company in Los Angeles. But I bet you didn’t know those trailers are actually suits of shining armor on wheels.

Founded by Mikel Elliott and Jordan Kitaen, Quixote Studios has 24 soundstages throughout the Los Angeles area that are highly sought after by production companies and studios around the country.

“Westworld” Director Paul Cameron Breaks Down “Generation Loss” Episode

Cinematographer Paul Cameron had worked on big pictures like Michael Mann-directed Collateral and Denzel Washington thriller Déjà Vu, so he could afford to be skeptical six years ago when he first heard about a new TV series loosely based on an old Michael Crichton sci-fi novel. Cameron says, “I remember when my agent called and said Jonah Nolan wants to talk to you about Westworld, my first reaction was: ‘Might not be not my cup of tea.'”

“Westworld” Season 4 Trailer Reveals the Return of HBO’s Ambitious Sci-Fi Epic

Have you questioned the nature of your reality lately? If you haven’t, HBO can nudge you towards the existential end of things with the first trailer for Westworld‘s season 4. The ambitious sci-fi series returns after a two-year hiatus, with the robot hosts of the titular theme park now on the loose in the real world—and doing their level best to reorder the hierarchy between themselves and humans. Westworld has been consistently one of the best-looking productions on TV,

Fantastically Creepy “Westworld” Season 4 Trailer Reveals Premiere Date

After a wait that would have made even the non-sentient Westworld hosts impatient, HBO’s ambitious sci-fi series is back. A brand new trailer for season 4 reveals the return of Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood) and the gang, who have all been offline, as it were, since the season three finale in May 2020.

Who better to welcome us back to Westworld‘s special blend of haunted sci-fi dystopia better than Lou Reed,

Westworld and Snowpiercer Cinematographer John Grillo on Crafting Dueling Apocalypses

Right before lockdown and social distancing began in earnest, we had a chance to talk with notable cinematographer Paul Cameron about his return to Westworld, for which he not only shot the pilot but returned to film the just-concluded season’s opening episode and to direct the fourth.

He kept singing the praises of John Grillo, his cinematographer for that fourth installment, “The Mother of Exiles,” replete with action-strewn set pieces,

HBO Renews Westworld for Season 4

However this wacky, gorgeously shot third season of Westworld concludes, we now know that the story will continue. HBO has officially confirmed that the sentient hosts and morally vacuous humans they alternately fight and befriend will be back for a fourth season. The news came via Tweet and press release—rejoice, Westworld fans!

This is now.#Westworld has been renewed for Season 4. pic.twitter.com/GTnF4YVB6e

— Westworld (@WestworldHBO) April 22,

Go Inside Warworld, Westworld’s New WWII-Themed Park

It feels like several years ago when we interviewed Westworld cinematographer and director Paul Cameron about the series’ ambitious third season (it was actually only 11 days ago). Since then, the world has gotten significantly scarier thanks to the spread of COVID-19, which makes Westworld‘s third season, fully wrapped long before the pandemic hit, extra comforting right now. That is, as comforting as HBO’s wildly ambitious,

Westworld Cinematographer & Director Paul Cameron on Season 3’s Big Time Ambitions

“As a DP,” says director of photography Paul Cameron, ASC, “you tend to walk into a location and visualize it and pitch it to a director.” But what happens if you are the director? Well, he allows, “I may have been a little stronger in pitching my ideas” back to the cinematographer.

Cameron had a chance to pitch in both directions, in quick succession, on HBO’s currently unfurling third season of Westworld.

This Hidden Westworld Season 3 Trailer Reveals Totally Different Footage

Remember how last Thursday, HBO dropped this sensational new Westworld trailer? It turns out, there’s an entirely different trailer for season three that reveals entirely different footage. This “secret” trailer was revealed by a Reddit user who did a deep dive on the Westworld viral website Incite, Inc. and found out that if you visit the page with a VPN and clean browser history, the secret trailer will reveal itself.

Here’s Everything New on HBO This March

March is going to be a big month for HBO. Not that the premium cable channel doesn’t try to make every month big; it hasn’t slowed down—at all—since Game of Thrones bowed. Ever since the flagship series ended its run, HBO launched the epic fantasy His Dark Materials, and Damon Lindelof’s spectacular Watchmen, just to name two major new series. This March will see some of the most eagerly anticipated series bowing or returning to HBO.

Westworld’s Season Three Trailer is Thrilling

HBO has just released Westworld‘s season three trailer, and we are enthused. One of TV’s most ambitious sci-fi series returns, and it appears to be bigger and bolder than ever.

“I was born into this world,” Evan Rachel Wood’s Dolores says at the opening of the trailer. “And my first memories of it are pain. For my kind, there was one place we were never allowed to go,

Westworld Season 3 Date Announced in Cryptic New Video

Westworld‘s beguiling third season just got a very cryptic date announcement video. How cryptic? We’re given not only the date when HBO’s expansive, ambitious sci-fi series returns but also a series of crucial dates within the show’s universe that seem to reveal more about the world outside the titular theme park then we’ve ever known about before. The dates include 6/12/19, the date of the first of a series of “Divergences,”

Westworld‘s Surprising Season 3 Trailer Hints at Totally Different Show

When we heard that Breaking Bad‘s Aaron Paul was joining Westworld for season three, we had no idea he would be doing so in a completely different looking show. if you were one of the millions of people hunkering down for Game of Thrones‘ series finale last night, you likely caught the trailer for Westworld season 3, without realizing it was a trailer for Westworld season 3 until the very end.

The Five Biggest Westworld Season 2 Mysteries We’re Obsessing Over

Westworld is bizarrely satisfying for being so mysterious. This season cracked open the world far beyond the park and led us to what lies beyond. As we cross the threshold of The Door and peer into season 3, here are the biggest mysteries left after the finale. Stop now if you haven’t seen season finale, ‘The Passenger.’

Will Delos continue pursuing their lucrative enterprise?

The future of Westworld is unlikely to continue in Westworld.

A Brave New Westworld: Season 2 Finale Recap

With another bloody, transporting, and revelatory Westworld season finale, showrunners Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy left viewers mystified and begging for more. The majority are probably scratching their heads, too.

Season finale ‘The Passenger’ was as tense and comprehensive as the series finale of most shows. The biggest reveal, surely, is that Charlotte Hale (Tessa Thompson) has been dead for the latter timeline of the season, which chiefly follows Bernard (Jeffrey Wright) and the Delos team struggling to jog Bernard’s scrambled memory so they can find the Forge’s encryption key.

Unpacking the Final Westworld Season 2 Trailer

Things are about to change in Westworld, and this time, we have no idea where things are going. Up-to-date Season 2 spoilers lie ahead.

If you thought at any point that Westworld had reached peak darkness, this week’s episode, “Vanishing Point,” really rubbed in just how wrong you were. William, or The Man in Black (Ed Harris), reaches an all-time low and kills his daughter Emily (Katja Herbers) when his paranoia leads him to believe she is a host sent by Ford (Anthony Hopkins).

Westworld’s Production Designer Breaks Down Season 2

Production designer Howard Cummings’s thirty year career has encompassed an incredible range of varied and stylized work: from the fantastical designs showcased in Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightening Thief, to the grounded realism seen in such films as Francis Coppola’s The Rainmaker, to the expressive realism seen in his 20 year stint working with director Steven Soderbergh on movies like The Underneath,