Shogun 2: Cosmo Jarvis, Hiroyuki Sanada’s present to happen 10 years after season 1. Check manufacturing, script particulars | Web Series

FX has revealed extra particulars in regards to the upcoming second season of its Emmy-winning drama collection Shogun, which can start filming in January 2026. Cosmo Jarvis has closed a deal to reprise his position as English pilot John Blackthorne, becoming a member of Hiroyuki Sanada, who will return as Lord Yoshii Toranaga, as per Deadline. (Also Read | Critics Choice Awards 2025 full listing of winners: Shogun sweeps all main awards)

The second season might be “a wholly original new chapter to the first season,” going down 10 years after the occasions of the primary season. The new chapter will proceed the traditionally impressed saga of Lord Toranaga and John Blackthorne, whose fates are inextricably entwined.

According to Deadline, manufacturing on season 2 is slated to start in January in Vancouver, the place the primary instalment was shot.

Hiroyuki Sanada has been upped to government producer for season 2, and Cosmo Jarvis will be part of the collection’ producing ranks as co-executive producer.

Series creators Rachel Kondo and Justin Marks have spoken in regards to the challenges of conceiving a second season with out a blueprint, as not one of the different novels in James Clavell’s Asian Saga have the identical characters as Shogun.

However, they’ve revealed that they leaned on the Shogun novel, incorporating components and characters that weren’t utilized in season 1.

FX chairman John Landgraf revealed that there aren’t any plans to movie a second and third season back-to-back, and {that a} third Shogun instalment will not be a lock.

“I don’t know that we’re certain there will be three seasons, but in really looking at the characters in the history that’s being depicted here, albeit in a fictionalised manner, it still feels to us like three is the right number of seasons to really do it justice,” he mentioned.