Shōgun Season 2 will hopefully enter manufacturing someday in early 2025, in keeping with FX CEO John Landgraf.
The community head spoke a few follow-up for its beloved samurai present throughout an interview with Variety. Hot off the heels of a military of Emmy nominations for tasks like Shōgun and The Bear, he promised that the group behind the collection, Justin Marks and Rachel Kondo, had been already arduous at work. Landgraf explains that he referred to as to congratulate the duo on the present’s lengthy checklist of nominations – which incorporates Drama Series, Writing for a Drama Series, Directing for a Drama Series, and extra – and that they’d simply stepped out of the writers’ room.
“We’re hoping to be in manufacturing comparatively early subsequent yr,” he mentioned when requested in regards to the Shōgun Season 2 timeline. “But it’s a protracted manufacturing interval. I feel between principal and second unit days of images, that present shot between 180 and 190 days or extra, may have been near 200.”
It means Shōgun Season 2 gained’t arrive for fairly a while, however FX is a minimum of shifting to select up the place the story left off as rapidly as it may. We’ll possible know extra about how the present will proceed as its hopeful early 2025 manufacturing begin date inches nearer.
Most viewers anticipated Shōgun to return to an finish following Season 1’s conclusion resulting from the truth that it had initially been promised as a restricted collection and in addition managed to fully cowl the occasions of the novel it’s primarily based on. FX was adamant that it wished extra, nonetheless, shifting to renew the present for not only one however probably two seasons in May.
We beloved Shōgun Season 1 sufficient to present it a ten/10 in our overview. We praised its immersive world and character arcs, saying, “FX’s adaptation of James Clavell’s Shōgun locations characters over fight for a fancy and exquisite story of intrigue set in feudal Japan.”
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