The FX restricted sequence Shogun ended on April 23, and followers of the ten-episode drama are clamoring for a second go-round; nonetheless, that’s not prone to occur, in accordance with showrunner Justin Marks and author Rachel Kondo.
It is because the sequence was based mostly on the novel of the identical title by the late James Clavell, who didn’t write a sequel. Set in Seventeenth-century feudal Japan, it tells the story of shipwrecked English navigator John Blackthorne (Cosmo Jarvis) who spends the remainder of his days within the nation. Blackthorne’s character was based mostly on the real-life William Adams who, in 1600, turned the primary Englishman to achieve Japan and have become a key advisor to the shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu.
Regardless of Clavell’s different works having minor ties to Shogun (The Asian Saga), the novel concludes the story of Blackthorne and his relationships with the primary gamers. That stated, producer and co-star, Hiroyuki Sanada (John Wick 4, Mortal Kombat, Westworld) who performs the highly effective busho Yoshii Toranaga, feels that whereas there’s a historical past inside the e book, and “actual historical past fashions,” a second entry or associated sequence “is dependent upon the viewers’s response,” which as we all know has been very optimistic.
