The second season of the series, which established a record in the Emmy last year with 18 victories, is scheduled to begin in Vancouver in January 2026. The announcement serves as an official confirmation that a second season will effectively be carried out (although it was never really in doubt) after FX announced that it was developing two additional deliveries in May 2024.
Cooking and Showrunners Rachel Kondo and Justin Marks Recently they finished a writer room for the next season, which will be based on the novel of James Clavell which formed the original material for the first season.
What will the second season of Shogun
After the conclusion of the screenwriters, FX has also published the first sketch of what the second season of Shgun will be like. According to FX, the series will resume the plot ten years after the events of the first season and will continue the historical saga of these two men of different worlds, whose destinations are inextricably intertwined.
Hiroyuki healedwho won the Emmy for Best Main Actor in a drama last year, will repeat his role as Lord Yoshii Toranaga. Cosmo Jarvis He will also return as the English sailor John Blackthorne, whose arrival in Japan after a shipwreck begins the story. They are the first confirmed actors that return for the second season; FX has not announced any other member of the cast.
Sanada will also be executive producer of the second season of Shogun, along with Kondo, Marks, Michaela Clavell, Edward L. McDonnell and Michael de Luca. Jarvis will be executive co -producer. FX Productions is the study.
In addition to its impressive collection in the Emmy, Shogun is also the most watched series in the history of FX, according to Disney’s property. The series, which was issued on the FX cable channel and was broadcast on Hulu, remained 10 weeks in Nielsen streaming lists last year, accumulating 4270 million minutes of visualization during that period. In our region the series is available in Disney+.
The cast of the first season also included Anna Sawai, Tadanobu Asano, Takehiro Hira, Tommy Bastow and Fumi Nikaidoamong others.
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