Westworld's creators explain how their series addresses violent video games

Westworld creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy have been thinking a lot about simulations. The creative duo have divided their last few years between writing for television and raising their first child. Nolan, the brother and writing partner of Dark Knight and Interstellar director Christopher Nolan, has built a career around highbrow thought experiments in cinema and TV. Among other things, he wrote the short story that became Christopher Nolan’s film Memento. He also created and scripte