Shogun World: Development Section

Shogun World: Development Section
Located within	Mesa Hub
Status	Unknown
Appearances	"The Bicameral Mind"

Samurai World, Shogun World, and Sensei World are speculative names for another of the Delos Destinations, Inc. parks - a 'sister park' to Westworld. A "SW" logo is seen in "The Bicameral Mind" when Maeve, Felix, Hector and Armistice flee to a floor that appears similar to the Behavioral levels within the Westworld Mesa Hub. Some feudal Japanese warriors hosts are rehearsing actions, and they take no notice of the escapees. Other hosts stand passively.

Location

It should be noted that the content seen on the "SW" floor is not a park. This area seems to be the equivalent of Westworld's Behavior Lab and Diagnostics. It contains hosts and branding that may be for either an existing park or a park in the planning stages.

It is unclear where the new park may be located, if it exists at all yet. The topographical map in the Westworld control room seems to only display the Westworld park.

Other Parks

There are some clues that Westworld is not the only park:

• Lee Sizemore is seen at Westworld's Monorail Platform in the episode "The Bicameral Mind", talking to Charlotte Hale. He wants to be Ford's replacement and says: "I want full creative control over this place: the parks, the narratives, the hosts."
• In "The Bicameral Mind", Felix gives Maeve a note with the location of her daughter: Park 1 Sector 15 Zone 3. Westworld could very well be "Park 1".

Name

The show's creators, Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, have hinted that the name of the SW park could be Samurai World. However, it could also be Shogun World or Sensei World, among others. They said these are all "good guesses". Nolan speaks of his love of Samurai movies. Many Samurai films have been remade into Westerns (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samurai_cinema#Influence_on_western_cinema). Western film director, Sergio Leone, based the "man with no name" in A Fistful of Dollars on the main character in Akira Kurosawa's movie, Yojimbo. (Sanjuro is a sequel with the same unnamed main character).

In the Entertainment Weekly interview, Nolan incorrectly states that Sergio Leone made films based on "The Seven Samurai and The Magnificent Seven". The truth is that Akira Kurosawa created, Seven Samurai (1954), and director, John Sturges, adapted Kurosawa's film into a Western as The Magnificent Seven (1960).

Concept

The multiple-park concept comes from Michael Crichton's 1973 film Westworld. In the opening scene Ed Ramsey describes the theme park Delos, containing three worlds: "Medieval World, Roman World, and, of course, Westworld."

Medieval and Roman World are briefly seen during the film. One of the film's protagonists escapes from Westworld through Roman World and into Medieval World for a final confrontation.

Futureworld leaves Westworld deserted and replaces it with Spa World and Futureworld.

Nolan has stated Medieval World and Roman World will not appear in Westworld.