Drama FX’s Shogun | Hiroyuki Sanada, Cosmo Jarvis, Anna Sawai

[Still Wynning]

She was such a revelation! Can’t wait to see what else she does in the future!

 

[blueharvest]

 

[blueharvest]

 

[Pennywise]

 

[C. Lee]

I just finished season one. I always loved the original adaptation, this was good but I liked the original better. As far as I remember, having read the novel 45 years ago, this covered the whole book, so any further seasons would be all new. I can't remember seeing anything else Cosmo was in, so I have a question about him. Does he always sound like he's doing a cheap Richard Burton voice?

 

[Kane52630]

Does he always sound like he's doing a cheap Richard Burton voice?

the complete opposite

 

[Sawyer]

‘Shogun’ 1980 Miniseries Director Calls Out FX Show as “Not Entertaining” for American Audiences

Jerry London, who directed NBC's Emmy-winning adaptation starring Richard Chamberlain, tells THR that he wanted his version to have universal appeal: "The filmmakers of the new one really didn't care about the American audience."

www.hollywoodreporter.com

These grapes are sour.

 

[blueharvest]

 

[Hunter Rider]

Another statue in the bag for Anna!

 

[Hunter Rider]

‘Shogun’ 1980 Miniseries Director Calls Out FX Show as “Not Entertaining” for American Audiences

Jerry London, who directed NBC's Emmy-winning adaptation starring Richard Chamberlain, tells THR that he wanted his version to have universal appeal: "The filmmakers of the new one really didn't care about the American audience."

www.hollywoodreporter.com

These grapes are sour.

Wow, so salty, he comes off so bitter "where's my attention!" Like people were supposed to talk about his adaptation because there's a new one, why? He says himself they're very different. I haven't read the book so I don't know if the romance was more prominent, but given the period the story is set in I'd imagine it was reserved. I also think it's funny when people use the "everyone I've talked to" argument, like how many people out of the millions who watched the show does that encompass? The idea that it wasn't entertaining for a western audience because it focused on Japanese history and political machinations instead of romance is just flat out ignorant.

 

[blueharvest]

‘Shōgun’ & Succession: Dana Walden Says Disney Is Being “Careful” With Season 2 Of FX Drama, Skirts CEO Chat At Investor Conference

Dana Walden, Co-Chairman, Disney Entertainment talked up the success of FX’s Shōgun, while avoiding the topic of CEO succession.

deadline.com

 

[Pennywise]

‘Shōgun’ Season 2: Cosmo Jarvis Rejoins Hiroyuki Sanada, Time Jump & More Details Revealed, Production Start Set

Season 2 of FX's Shōgun will begin filming in January with a 10-year time jump. Cosmo Jarvis will reprise his role as English pilot John Blackthorne.

deadline.com

The pieces are coming into place on the upcoming second season of FX‘s Emmy-winning drama series Shōgun, which will begin filming in January. Cosmo Jarvis has closed a deal to reprise his role as English pilot John Blackthorne, joining Hiroyuki Sanada, whose pact last May to return as Lord Yoshii Toranaga paved the way to Shogun‘s renewal after being originally conceived as a limited series. Sanada, a producer on the original installment, has been upped to executive producer for Season 2; Jarvis is joining the series’ producing ranks as co-executive producer.

The new chapter will take place 10 years after the events in the first season, in which Lord Toranaga (Sanada) fought for his survival as his enemies in the Council of Regents united against him. When a mysterious European ship was found marooned in a nearby village, its pilot John Blackthorne (Jarvis) shared vital strategic secrets with Toranaga that tipped the scales of power in his favor to win a century-defining civil war.

Season 2 “continues the historically-inspired saga of these two men from different worlds whose fates are inextricably entwined,” FX says.

Series creators Rachel Kondo and Justin Marks, who recently wrapped a writers’ room, have spoken about the challenges of conceiving a second season without a blueprint as none of the other novels in Clavell’s Asian Saga have the same characters as Shōgun, the third book in the series. But the duo has revealed in interviews that they still leaned on the Shōgun novel, incorporating elements and characters that they didn’t use in Season 1.

 

[#root]

I wish them luck for the next season but Anna Sawai was the heart of the show for me and her and Tadanobu Asano will be sorely missed.

 

[C. Lee]

Am I wrong, or didn't "season one" cover the entire original James Clavell novel? Any continuing story would be brand new stuff.

 

[SPO2 Dalisay]

Am I wrong, or didn't "season one" cover the entire original James Clavell novel? Any continuing story would be brand new stuff.

We know the history of the era which Clavell bases his novel on. Going forward they can continue a fictional account. Just like any author taking over the characters of dead or retired originators

 

[blueharvest]

‘Shogun’ Future Seasons Could Film in Japan as Producer Eyes Homeland Return

Emmy-winning producer Miyagawa Eriko signals openness to filming future 'Shogun' seasons in Japan as MPA panel identifies key infrastructure needs.

variety.com