Then they fled to Hawaii as chicken farmers

Shogun has become one of the biggest series hypes of the year in recent months and delights with weekly episodes on Disney+. As the finale of season 1 on the streaming service approaches, fans already have one to look forward to Farewell from the successful series. The two co-creators Justin Marks and Rachel Kondo announced in mid-March that they would not be making a second season of Shogun.

They explained that the story of Shogun, which is based on the best-selling novel of the same name by James Clavell, will be told at the end of the first season. In a new interview, the two now gave another reason – and it is like this bizarre and understandable.

Shogun creators Justin Marks and Rachel Kondo would rather raise chickens than make Season 2

Rachel Kondo told Collider that Season 1 of Shogun felt unrepeatable. Producing new episodes would take a lot of time and energy that the co-creators would rather invest in their family. As Justin Marks explained: “We live in Maui now. We are Chicken breeder with our children and living out there.”

The two of them would first have to recover from Shogun’s high production costs on Kondo’s home island of Hawaii, as Marks continued:

That mainly has to do with the fact that things were pretty tough, we had a lot of night shoots in the snow and rain and mud in the middle of the forest. I don’t know how this can be repeated. It took every part of our souls and the cast put everything of themselves into it too.

At the same time, it is much more difficult to write a second season without a novel as great as that by James Clavell:

We had a wonderful book prepared by a master and with a sequel we wouldn’t have that luxury, so I really don’t know how to proceed, even if you look at the history. Clavell wrote historical fiction, so who knows?
Season 2 of the Japanese adventure series could adapt more Clavell novels

Should Shogun take the anthology series route instead of a direct sequel, the format would have five more novels by James Clavell available, which the author wrote between 1962 and 1993 in his Asian Saga wrote. However, as it sounds in their interview statements, we would have to wait a few more years for that – at least if Justin Marks and Rachel Kondo are to be back in the game.

The ninth episode of Shogun is on April 16, 2024 on Disney+. The series will air its season finale a week later on April 23rd (for now?) on the streaming service.

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