https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/shogun-season-2-and-3-in-the-works-fx-hulu-1235901617/amp/
I guess when something is a hit, you have to make more.
Of course, gotta milk even more money out of it. Ugh.
sharePleased to hear itđź‘Ť
shareHonestly I'm a little disappointed. After the first season was done, they said that was going to be it. They constructed the season knowing that they had to fit it all into one season. Now with this announcement, I'm thinking that they're just going to be throwing random crap together only because they got picked up.
shareI think it'll be anthological?
shareThis exactly.
shareBlackthorne was based on a real person called William Adams. There was much more to Adams than was depicted in the events of Shogun. But they will probably screw that up too.
sharePrepare for nonbinary LGBTQ Samourais and 'colored', formerly oppressed Japanese natives turning heroes!
shareWhich non-binary and colored native characters were you disappointed with? Surely you understand that not everyone in feudal Japan was as pissy and uptight about sexuality as you are?
shareI doubt it. They would have done it already.
shareI'll be amazed if this is any good. I've noticed something with sequels over the course of my life. If a property is adapted from pre-existing material, and there is more of that to adapt, the sequels can be good. It's why the James Bond series worked; the first several films were very close adaptations of the Ian Fleming novels, and by the time they started to go their own way, the series had become established, and they had plenty of time to come up with new story ideas, so it wasn't rushed to get something out before the demand had passed. The Godfather Part II was so good because half of it was from parts of Puzo's original novel that hadn't been adapted for the first film. The original Star Wars trilogy was all dreamed up, in basic outline at least, before filming on the first movie started, so there was a vision for where the trilogy would go.
Really, the one exception I can think of to this rule is Terminator 2. The original Terminator wasn't meant to have a sequel. But it was a success, and so they made one, and it was, unusually, even better than the first film.
But the vast majority of the time, when a standalone story is so successful the studio wants a sequel, the film's or series's creators, who didn't plan one, have to come up with something. And because there was no vision for a continued story, and because they're under the pressure of time to strike while the iron is still hot, it's almost always greatly inferior. James Clavell never wrote a sequel to the novel Shogun. He wrote other stories, set centuries later, set in the same historical continuity, but no direct sequel. And without a good story to adapt, I think the sequel series will disappoint people when it comes out.
Heck, this series disappointed me so much I wish they had called it something other than Shogun.
shareEveryone needs to come back for the sequels too. That includes the writers and director. The cinematographer can make a big difference too. The best thing for sequels is to not stray away too far from the first film. Fans became fans from what they saw the first time, so there's no sense of changing it.
shareUnless Fuji is there, I'm gonna pass.
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