Full spoilers for Westworld Season 3, Episode 2 follow.
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No, your eyes were not deceiving you. Based on the latest episode of Westworld, it looks like there’s a Game of Thrones park in the Westworld universe!
Let’s just call it Westeros World.
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Was that Drogon the Dragon in Westworld?
O.K., maybe it’s not specifically a Game of Thrones World, but at the very least there’s some kind of fantasy-based park which Bernard describes as Park 4. And this place has a dragon which looks exactly like Drogon. We see the dragon chained up in one of the high-tech Delos labs that keeps the parks like Westworld and Shogunworld running. And Westeros World as it turns out.
Oh, and it’s also got Game of Thrones showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss working as techs behind the scenes. And they’re talking about Jurassic Park… or a start-up in Costa Rica, at least. But you know what that means… Jurassic Park’s Isla Nublar is off the west coast of Costa Rica, after all.
The Jurassic Park/Westworld Connection
Of course, the late author and filmmaker Michael Crichton created both Jurassic Park and Westworld.
Westworld showrunners Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy explained to IGN that these Easter eggs came about because they just wanted to have a little fun with their friends Benioff and Weiss.
“Especially the Jurassic Park part of it, which we couldn’t resist,” laughed Nolan. “The argument there was all between whether or not one of the parks should be Westeros World, which George RR Martin has been pitching for years, and Dan and David — who are friends of ours and who we have joked about over the years [about] Jurassic Park, of course Crichton’s other theme park gone-wrong classic. And so we found a way to bring both of those great flavors together. We pitched to our friends Dan and Dave, whose show we dearly loved and really sort of blazed the trail for ambitious filmmaking on television. We pitched them this dumb idea, and they were kind enough to show up and play with us for a night. We bought them a beer afterwards, and it was an absolute pleasure having them on our set.”
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When we asked whether or not the Drogon seen in Westworld was created by the same effects house or from the same project files that were used on Game of Thrones, Nolan and Joy had no idea what we meant…
“I’m not sure what you mean,” Nolan straight-faced. “They brought Drogon with them.”
Added Joy: “With a very large leash and a muzzle that’s fire-resistant.”
Anyway, for those who are keeping count, we now know what four of the six Delos parks are on Westworld:
- Park 1 is the Old West-themed Westworld.
- Park 2 is Shogunworld, with a focus on feudal Japan.
- Park 3 is the World War II-era Warworld.
- Park 4 is an unnamed Westeros-type world.
- Park 5 remains unidentified.
- Park 6 is the Colonial India park The Raj.
What could Park 5 be? Maybe it’s based on another HBO show? Sopranos World? The Wire World? Big Little Lies World? Let us know what you think in the comments, and for more on Westworld be sure to check out a couple of the most popular fan theories about Westworld Season 3, hear what the showrunners had to say about the new season’s big changes, or catch up on the first two seasons with our recap in six minutes!
Source: IGN.com Westworld Showrunners Explain Episode 2's Big Easter Egg