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FX has elaborate its plans for the 2nd play of deed feudal Japan bid Shogun, including a database of caller formed members and respective hints astatine its plot.
Pre-production connected the 2nd play has already begun, with shooting acceptable to instrumentality spot successful Vancouver opening successful January 2026. As yet, there's nary connection connected erstwhile the caller play volition air.
Set a decennary aft the archetypal season's finale, the adjacent tally of episodes volition proceed the communicative of returning pb characters Lord Toranaga (Hiroyuki Sanada) and John Blackthorne (Cosmo Jarvis) arsenic "two men from antithetic worlds whose fates are inextricably entwined."
Speaking to Variety, co-creator and enforcement shaper Justin Marks said the adjacent play would connection an "entirely unexpected emotion story" portion besides being "a communicative of warfare and the outgo of war" — which each sounds familiar.
Still, Marks was keen to marque wide however ample an undertaking the caller accumulation would beryllium — suggesting it would beryllium impressive, though besides instrumentality immoderate clip to make. "There are conflict sequences that we're putting unneurotic present successful portion two," helium teased. "I don't deliberation you've ever seen thing similar this benignant of scale, this benignant of calamity and this benignant of humanity.
"This amusement is going to instrumentality america a small portion to produce," Marks continued, explaining that this had informed the determination to determination its communicative guardant successful time. "It's not coming retired 1 twelvemonth later, and there’s this happening that drives maine brainsick erstwhile you ticker a amusement that ended 3 years ago, and you get into play 2 and it's similar 5 minutes later. We're trying to usage this leap arsenic a mode to travel backmost to our characters again for the precise archetypal time, to spot them, to spot what's changed successful their lives implicit the people of the past 10 years, and to rediscover them."
Alongside Sanada and Jarvis, different returning actors from play 1 see Fumi Nikaidô (Ochiba), Shinnosuke Abe (Buntaro), Hiroto Kanai (Omi), Yoriko Dôguchi (Kiri), Tommy Bastow (Alvito), Yuko Miyamoto (Gin), Eita Okuno (Saeki) and Yuka Kouri (Kiku).
New formed members see Asami Mizukawa (Aya), Masataka Kubota (Hyūga), Sho Kaneta (Hidenobu), Takaaki Enoki (Lord Ito) and Jun Kunimura (Gōda).
"We killed a batch of people," successful the archetypal season, Marks continued. "We person immoderate truly breathtaking characters this season, characters that I privation to archer you everything about, but cannot. These faces truly popped for us, truthful we're conscionable truthful excited to bring our ain household unneurotic with these caller faces and ticker them go portion of this world."
Tom Phillips is IGN's News Editor. You tin scope Tom astatine [email protected] oregon find him connected Bluesky @tomphillipseg.bsky.social
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