Hiroyuki Sanada as Toranga in a scene from Shogun episode 10
Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Shōgun showrunners Justin Marks and Rachel Kondo explain season 2's development process. Based on James Clavell's 1975 novel, FX's Shōgun premiered earlier this year, becoming both a critical and viewership sensation. The success of the show led to the announcement that Shōgun season 2 is on the way, in addition to a season 3.
Marks: From the writers’ room of this show, we were always doing our fan fiction of what stories may be. And without getting specific, because a lot of those are just larks and jokes and fun things that we would always want to do: Like some fantastic alt-history where Blackthorne brings Yabushige back to London, and the two of them kind of go into this place. I mean, it would be wild.
And when Gina Balian visited us in Vancouver one time when Michaela Clavell — James Clavell’s daughter, and an executive producer on our show — was up there, Rachel and I went to dinner with the two of them and presented the first kernels of, “We’re not sure we should do this, but if we did, here’s how we thought it might start.
Marks: There were a lot of questions that we felt were still unanswered in the story. Not the least of which is that the title character doesn’t become the title character. And yeah, that’s really when you have history on your side, what you don’t have on your side is this wonderful book moving forward. There are no roads where we’re going.
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