ShogunFX’s critically acclaimed historical drama concluded its 10-episode run last week and Anna Sawai she was universally praised for her portrayal of the tragic Toda Mariko. Among the rumors of Emmy nominations, the star also seen Monarch: Legacy of Monsters she will now surely be inundated with film offers and it wouldn’t be surprising if sooner or later she was offered a superhero role.
Sawai opened up about her career and potential move to Hollywood to THR, revealing that her big break could have come much sooner, but her commitment to her J-Pop band, FAKY, forced her to miss out. the opportunity to audition for the role of Katana in Suicide Squad of 2016. “After training – multiple years of training – you either get lucky and join a group, or you debut as a solo singer, or you leave“Sawai explained.
“I said to myself: “This is my chance!”. Then I went to my manager and he said, ‘You can’t audition.’ They basically told me that if I was gone for more than a month, the girls [gli altri membri delle FAKY] they would have had nothing to do. It felt like they were really tying me down, and because of my contract, I couldn’t leave until I actually left [nel 2018]“.
Of course, it’s not a given that Sawai would actually get the part, and even if she did get it, it may not have done much for her status. Katana was eventually played by Karen Fukuharastar of The Boysand while he did a good job, the character wasn’t exactly positioned to be a point of reference, so much so that Fukuhara only gained popularity thanks to the Prime Video series.
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Shogun will there be a second season?
Despite the widespread love the show has received in recent months, the response to whether or not it will be renewed Shogun for a second season it seems like a clear no. This is supported by recent comments from the show’s creators, Rachel Kondo And Justin Marks, who both reiterated that the show was always intended to be a one-season series. Kondo and Marks seem more than satisfied with where the series is left, and reiterate this further in the following statement:
“We brought the story to the end of the book and put a period at the end of the sentence. We love the way the book ends; it was one of the reasons we both knew we wanted to do it, and we ended exactly at that point. In the past I have witnessed episodes like this, where an entire factory is built that only produces 10 cars and closes its doors. It’s a breakup. One of our producers wrote a nearly 900-page instruction manual on how to make this show, almost as long as the Shogun book. There was all this infrastructural knowledge in there. I just hope that someone else, maybe a friend, needs a production manual on feudal Japan, so I can say, “Here, use this book. He will save you 11 months‘”.
It’s clear that Rachel Kondo and Justin Marks They hold James Clavell’s original novel in high regard and wanted to tell the story as accurately as possible, updating it for modern audiences. They are certainly right that the original book has a powerful and clear finish, so it makes sense that Kondo and Marks don’t want to twist it too much. Ending a series at its peak and abandoning it while you’re ahead certainly has its advantages. After all, Shogun has been repeatedly compared to Game of Thrones, a show that infamously attempted to adapt material beyond the books, to a disastrous end.
