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new Shogun adaptation coming...

Any info on it coming to Blu-Ray? I'd love to see it, but, as I understand Hulu/FX, they don't like to do DVD/BD releases any more.
 
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Shōgun Celebrates Golden Globes Sweep With Season 2 Update

The show's creators confirm the second season is close to a huge milestone
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Shōgun Celebrates Golden Globes Sweep With Season 2 Update
The show's creators confirm the second season is close to a huge milestone

We all saw it coming. Still, the best show of 2024 gave us a welcome surprise. At last night’s Golden Globe Awards, the FX series Shōgun not only cemented its remarkable year in gold, but also gave all of its fans an update on its upcoming second season to tide us over as we wait to return to feudal Japan.

According to ScreenRant’s reporting from a Golden Globes press conference attended by Shōgun creators Rachel Kondo and Justin Marks, the pair dished on Season 2's development as an ongoing process before Marks revealed, “we’re about six weeks until the end of the writers’ room.” Yes, by the end of February, the next installment in the saga of Lord Yoshii Toranaga (Hiroyuki Sanada) and potentially John Blackthorne (Cosmo Jarvis, who is not yet confirmed to be returning) will likely be written.

This news comes after the show with the most-watched debut week in FX history, won all four of the Golden Globe awards it was nominated for, including Best Television Drama. With that win, it became only the third FX show in the last 20 years to be bestowed such an honor, following the criminally underrated The Americans and Nip/Tuck. Tadanobu Asano’s stellar portrayal of disgraced and deceitful Kashigi Yabushige helped win the network its first-ever Golden Globe in the category of Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film. The show’s other wins were Sanada for Actor in a Drama TV Series, and Anna Sawai, who played Lady Mariko, for Actress in a Drama TV Series.

At the end of its first season, which was based on James Clavell’s 1975 novel of the same name, Toranaga had surreptitiously been treating people’s lives like chess pieces, keeping Blackthorne under his control by destroying his ship, and benefiting from Lady Mariko’s heartbreaking death after sending her into the lion’s den of Osaka where his rival Ishido Kazunari (Takehiro Hira) was awaiting his surrender. And he still hasn’t divulged the full extent of his plans, even with a major battle for ruler of Japan possibly on the horizon.

Safe to say that while season one more or less covered the entirety of James Clavell’s novel, there’s more than enough opportunity for the show’s writers to continue the story and create another award-winning year for one of the best shows of the 2020s.
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Hiroyuki Sanada expects Shōgun to begin filming again this fall

Shōgun star Hiroyuki Sanada isn’t mincing words about the show’s near-certain return.

“We are aiming for the fall of this year, and the writers’ room is working so hard now,” Sanada told Variety this weekend, saying the series is aiming to begin filming again some time in the second half of 2025. The writers’ room is presumably having to work extra hard because they’re out of book to adapt: The series was originally conceived and sold as a miniseries, fully adapting James Clavell’s classic novel, before FX clearly started grabbing people and screaming “Are you insane, this thing’s a hit.” Although FX reportedly hasn’t handed out a formal green light to begin filming on the new season, they’re presumably confident enough that the show can go on past Clavell’s stopping point that Sanada feels fine stating he’ll be back on set soon.

“We’re going to have half [of the Season 1] cast remaining, and then half new cast coming,” Sanada said. “We are finding the best crew for next season now, so I’m excited.”
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Captaindemotion said:
Jerry London, director of the original miniseries, sounds like quite an arse, if you ask me
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‘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."
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I would have to disagree with his assessment. I mean I liked his version of Shogun, but I didn't find the new one difficult to follow and enjoyed it a lot.
 
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