Why won’t Shogun have a second season? The farmers decided to breed chickens after the filming of the series

The creators explain why the beloved 2024 series won’t continue.

Shogun: The Glorious Saga of Japan has become one of the the most popular series streamed at the beginning of the year and has won over its audience with weekly episodes on Disney+ and Star+. And as the end of the streaming service’s first season approaches, fans must already prepare for a farewell to the hit series.

Recently, the two co-creators of the series, Giustino Marchi AND Rachel Kondo, announced that they would not be making a second season of Shogun. They explained that the story is based on the best-selling novel by James Clavel will conclude at the end of the first season and, in an interview with Colliderthe two provided another reason, as unusual as it is understandable.

Rachel Kondo said that the first season of Shogun seemed impossible to repeat. Producing new episodes would require time and energy that the co-creators would rather invest in their families, as Justin Marks explained: “We live on Maui now. We’re chicken farmers with our kids and we live there.”

The two also talked about Shogun’s high production costs. “A lot of it was because things were difficult, with a lot of night shooting in the snow, in the rain, in the mud in the middle of the forest. I don’t know if anyone would repeat it. It took every part of our soul, and even the cast gave of themselves,” he said .

The creators have stressed that there is no source material for a second season…

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