May 01, 2025 02:56 pm IST
Shogun 2: The new chapter will continue the containue the historically inspired saga of Lord Toranaga and John Blackthorne, whose fats are intuined.
FX has revised more details about the upcoming second season of its emmy-winning drama series shogun, which will begin filming in January 2026. English Pilot John Blackthorne, Joining Hiroyuki Sanada, Who will return as Lord Yoshii Toranaga, as per deadline. (Also Read | Critics Choice Awards 2025 full list of winners: shogun sneps all major awards)
The second season will be “a wholly original new chapter to the first season,” Taking place 10 years after the events of the first season. The new chapter will continue to control
According to deadline, production on season 2 is stated to begin in january in vancouver, where the first installation was shot.
Hiroyuki Sanada has been upped to Executive Producer for Season 2, and cosmo jarvis will join the series’ Producing Rans as Co-Executive Producer.
Series Creators Rachel Kondo and Justin Marks Have Spoken About The Challenges of Conceiving a Second Season Without A Blueprint, as None of the OTHER NOVELS in James Clavell’s Saga Hawa The Same Characters as Shogun.
However, they have revised that they leane on the shogun novel, incorporating elements and characters that was not used in season 1.
FX Chairman John Landgraf Reveled that there are no plans to film a second and third season back-to-back, and that a third shogun installed is not a lock.
“I don’t know that we’re certain there will be three seasons, but in really looking at the characters in the history that’s being depicted here, albeit in a fiction in a fiction in Right number of seasons to really do it justice, “He said.
