Is there going to be a Shogun season two?
Yes! FX previously announced that the network, Hulu and the Estate of James Clavell are working to extend the series for both a season two and a season three.
Considering the first installment already ran through Clavell’s novel, the second will now have to go beyond the page.
“There’s a lot of chaos but creative chaos, where we’re throwing everything that we have at the wall, seeing what sticks,” Rachel Kondo, who created the show along with Justin Marks, told The Hollywood Reporter in June. “It’s been exciting and nerve-wracking because, obviously, this is uncharted territory — we don’t have a roadmap, we just have history.”
So with the help of Clavell’s estate, she continued, they’re “trying to study his process of curation.” Still, Marks added, a lot of questions remain.
“There’s a lot of great conspiracy theory in history, a lot of different theories about, ‘Oh, it was said that this went on, but this really went on,’ and those little darker corners are what we’ve really enjoyed exploring,” he noted to THR—though it appears there aren’t as many questions for how long the series will run. “The third season is really an ending,” he continued. “We know where it starts, and we know where it ends, and we know who is there on that journey. We’re just focusing on part two right now to really make sure we can get to that point. But part two is, as second chapters go, kind of a darker chapter.”