The FX prizes epic Shōgun It is officially going on with season 2 and, while season 1 has concluded the complete story of the book, the creative team is ready to transform that page and write a new chapter and a brand new chapter e Cosmo Jarvis He is back.
After accumulating 18 EMMY victories including the main actor for Hiroyuki Sanada and the main actress for Anna Sawai,Shōgun It has become the most watched FX series ever. So it is not surprising that the network would like more. What surprises is the way they are going, because they don’t have a novel to lean on this time.
FX confirms season 2 will be “a new completely original chapter in the first season”. Unlike the debut, which has adapted James Clavell’s The bestseller novel, this next episode jumps to 10 years in the future.
The show will continue to follow the restless and evolution alliance of the dynamic between John Blackthorne (Jarvis), the English pilot who helped to give a tip to the civil war of Japan, and Lord Yoshii Toranaga (Sanada), who has risen to power through brutal strategy and political cunning.
FX makes fun of that the second season “continues the historically inspiration saga of these two different worlds of which are inextricably intertwined”.
That new chapter will start shooting in January, again in Vancouver, despite the previous hopes of Hiroyuki Sanada that the series could move to Japan. FX president John Landgraf turned to those hopes, explaining the complications:
“It is complicated due to the scale of the base of the stadium and the scope of the production capacity is only a little different … medieval Japan, the castles are not around in their previous shape and frankly if they were, you would not be able to shoot there anyway.”
So he returned to Canada, where FX Productions will continue to build the world of feudal Japan with details and precision.
This time, Sanada is also dilut behind the scenes because he is now an executive producer. Jarvis will also pass behind the camera as an executive manufacturer.
Return creators Rachel Kondo AND Justin Markswho has just wrapped the writers’ room, recognized the challenge of writing without a clavell project, noting that Shōgun It is the only book of the Asian saga with these characters. However, they mentioned digging in the original novel for unused characters and ideas that have not transformed it into season 1.
Anna Sawai e Tatanobu Asano He will not return because both their characters met the fatal ends last season leaving Jarvis and Sanada while the two surviving conductors continue the saga.
There is still much that we don’t know, but it is clear that this second season has been carefully built. It remains to be seen if it can capture the same magic of lightning-in-a-bottilla.
By Joey Gour
Source: Geek Tyrant
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