FX’s historical drama Shogun just wrapped up its first season.
It’s billed as a miniseries with a beginning, middle, and end contained in one season.
And it’s also just about, do people want more of it?"
“How do you even equal the roadmap that Clavell laid out?
And I don’t know if its possible.
I don’t know if Clavell could have done it either.
That’s probably why he moved on to other books too, right?
He knew what he had done,” Marks said.
Would Marks and co-creator Rachel Kondo be interested in adapting Clavell’s other books in The Asian Saga?
“It’s completely different.
He’s conjuring new vivid characters that stand 75,000 feet tall all at once,” Marks said.
“And I think when you look at Shogun, thats part of what Clavell did.
Marks said the comparison to Fargo doesn’t exactly work, though.
So it’s hard.
You’re not actually building off that same language in the same way.”
All 10 episodes of Shogun are streaming now.
The show takes place in Japan in the year 1600 at the start of a civil war.
The story focuses on Lord Yoshii Toranaga (Hiroyuki Sanada) as his enemies unite against him.
Shogun the book was published in 1975, and Paramount first adapted it for a TV show in 1980.
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