More “Shōgun” is in the works.
The hit FX for Hulu series is in development in two more seasons; “Shōgun” was originally announced as a limited series.
Co-creators, executive producers, and writers Justin Marks and Rachel Kondo would return for Seasons 2 and 3, which FX says are now “likely” to happen, along with executive producer Michaela Clavell and series star and producer Hiroyuki Sanada. Production has not been set as the additional seasons have not yet been ordered — but a writers’ room is being assembled and will begin in the summer.
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I wonder what they’ll adapt it from since the book series skips to 1840s Hong Kong.
They could simply continue from where they left off in Season 1 and fill in the blanks? I personally felt the ending was a little unsatisfying.
Either way, it’s a bold move. It wouldn’t be the first time a team of writers has had to come up with completely original material and fallen flat on their faces.
Well that’s kinda where the book ends. I find it odd they want to continue…
I was a fan of the 80s version… and maybe I’ve become stupid in my old age … but I missed the relationship between Mariko and Anjin. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
But damn was it beautiful
Well that’s kinda where the book ends. I find it odd they want to continue…
" Shōgun has become FX’s most-watched show ever in its first nine weeks in terms of global hours streamed. "
That maybe reason enough for the executives at FX.
What remains to be seen, does the show retain its quality or it becomes GOT season 7 and 8.
Well that’s kinda where the book ends. I find it odd they want to continue…
It looks like a lot of people are whining that they expected more battles, because it doesn’t matter that it comes from a book that is about political intrigue and smart people, not historical bloodbaths. So I’m gonna assume that they’ll give the people what they want, and I won’t expect any of the plotting around that the book did - they’ll probably pretend to care about it, but they’ll just pivot to a simple retelling of historical events. I don’t know who Michaela Clavell is, but I don’t know how much she can help sticking to the Clavell writing style. We have Sekigahara, Shimabara, and Osaka to look forward to.
no, they’re gonna expand the Shogun feudal universe … lol. as the season of Shogun advanced, I was charmed by it’s beauty and production value, but less so in the story it was hiding. in the end the entire series was about a battle never fought, which was bad enough as a tease, but in reality the battle of sekigahara was fought in reality with sides changing allegiences during the battle, which would have made for a satisfying ending to the season. i’m less enthused about more seasons if they’re simply going to toy with their audiences expectations than producing an excellent period peice from history that i’m interested in.
in the end the entire series was about a battle never fought
Yes, that’s the book the show comes from. It’s been a long time but as I recall it, the book treats that battle as even more of an afterthought, something like “of course it ended in a big battle, but the conclusion was already foretold by everything we just talked about, we don’t even need to talk about the battle to know how it went.” The series actually gives even more detail about it than the book when Toranaga clarifies that Mariko’s role was decisive in making the mother of the heir drop her support of his enemy, and that’s it.
The book is not about the battle, the book is about how the battle was won even before it started and how Tokugawa / toranaga made that happen, the battle is irrelevant.
sure, and that’s a shitty story, told in a shitty way. the intrigue was only barely interesting, and so over telegraphed for the last 5 episodes, the eventual end was jut empty, devoid of any real punch. mariko giving her life to the cause that toronaga used so maliciously and carelessly along with all the other vassals who sacrificed for him, as well as bragging of trapping the pilot, and laughing he had other sons with his baby, was all so ugly, and weird. the battle of sekigahara was no “afterthought” it was THE place where allegiences changed sides, THAT is where this historical pendulum swung, not in some convoluted public shaming. the show held true to the work it was based on, great, still sucked and was terribly unsatisfying. so, if they’re gonna make more of that, they can keep it.
Please don’t Westworld it.
Turns out everybody was a Cylon.
except one is an angel.
So… Are they going to time jump like in the novels, or have studio writers just continue the current story? If the latter, I don’t have a lot of hope for the following seasons.
Well good luck to them, I was a tiny bit disappointed with the finale because I wanted to see Ishido buried from the neck down with a line of people waiting to spit on his head.
