We know some issues about “Shogun” season 2: It takes place 10 years after season 1 and filming gained’t begin till 2026.
However we do not know who’s starring alongside Hiroyuki Sanada as Lord Yoshii Toranaga and Cosmo Jarvis as John Blackthorne. Not less than, not formally.
Unofficially, although, one “Shogun” star might need just spilled the beans on their season 2 involvement.
In an interview with MovieWeb, present star Takehiro Hira revealed that, shockingly, they are going to be in season 2.
“It’s going to be shot subsequent 12 months,” Hira instructed MovieWeb’s George Edelman. “And I’m going to be in it, I feel, so far as I know.”
That wasn’t all Hira revealed, although. After dropping that shock, unofficial casting announcement, he adopted up with an absolute bombshell.
Spoilers for “Shogun” past this level
“After which, you know, my character, Ishido, loosely follows an precise historic determine,” Hira continued. “So I know he’s going to die, however, um, I suppose the creators, present runners are doing one thing artistic to shed some gentle on completely different side of that character in a while.”
Initially, dropping a shock casting announcement is a little bit of a spoiler in its personal proper. Particularly since I wasn’t anticipating Hira’s Ishido to seem in season 2 in any respect (extra on that in a bit).
However then, casually mentioning you are going to die in season 2 is a surprising reveal, and one I am actually surprised Hira made.
The largest purpose I am surprised? … Ishido ought to already be lifeless.
As Hira accurately factors out, “Shogun” follows historic occasions, and his character relies on a actual historic determine from the Sengoku interval.
However he is not the one character with a grounding in historic reality. Fan favourite Toda Marino (Anna Sawai) can also be based mostly on a historic determine, and her character’s destiny and the destiny of Hira’s Ishido needs to be carefully intertwined.
Mariko relies on Hosokawa Gracia, and like Gracia, she died fairly than getting used as a political hostage, and her dying was a major setback for Ishida Mitsunari, the real-life determine Hira’s Ishido relies on.
In each the present and the film, this occasion contributes to the defeat of Ishido/Ishida on the Battle of Sekigahara, which happens mere months after Mariko/Gracia’s dying.
In actual life, that battle ends with Ishido/Ishida’s dying, however within the present, we solely see the warlord defeated, leaving his execution implied fairly than express.
Leaving Ishido alive usually can be a shocking deviation from historic occasions, even for a work of historic fiction. Protecting him alive for a additional 10 years can be genuinely surprising.
Hira’s feedback point out that showrunners Rachel Kondo and Justin Marks have a detailed plan for Ishido in season 2, which leads me to consider his feedback about Ishido returning for season 2. I am not satisfied the appearances will not finally be as flashbacks, however it actually looks like Ishido will make an look in some kind in “Shogun” season 2.
Malcolm McMillan
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