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Variety’s Showrunners Sitdown: ‘Shogun’ Creators Justin Marks and Rachel Kondo on Killing Fan-Favorite Characters, ‘Translation as Couples Therapy’ — and What’s to Come in a Potential Season 2
Shogun creators Justin Marks and Rachel Kondo go deep on Season 1—the elaborate writing process, killing characters, the 10-month shoot. And Season 2!
Since then, FX has officially announced that Marks and Kondo — along with the estate of author James Clavell, whose blockbuster 1975 novel provided the source material for what we can now call Season 1 of “Shōgun” — are developing a potential plan to go past the story of the book, and tell the further tales of Lord Yoshii Toranaga (Hiroyuki Sanada). And though there isn’t more of Clavell’s writing on which to base new material, Toranaga is modeled after the historical figure Tokugawa Ieyas, the Japanese warlord who stabilized Japan, beginning in 1600 when “Shōgun” is set. I called Rachel on the way home from, we were shooting that scene in Episode 4 when Mariko and Blackthorne are sitting in the garden, and it was really the first time we had seen the fireworks between Cosmo and Anna together on screen, because it was very early in the process.
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