The novel was previously adapted into a 1980 television miniseries
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sh%C5%8Dg ... TV_series)
see: https://www.fxnetworks.com/shows/shogun
(LOVED the orig.1980 Chamberlain/Mifune series)
new ''SHOGUN'' (2024) mini-series
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new ''SHOGUN'' (2024) mini-series
"Shōgun" is an upcoming historical drama television limited series based on the 1975 novel of the same name by James Clavell that is set to premiere on Hulu, Disney+ (via the Hulu hub), and FX in the United States; Disney+ and Star+ in Latin America; and Disney+ (via Star) internationally.
The novel was previously adapted into a 1980 television miniseries
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sh%C5%8Dg ... TV_series)
see: https://www.fxnetworks.com/shows/shogun
(LOVED the orig.1980 Chamberlain/Mifune series)
The novel was previously adapted into a 1980 television miniseries
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sh%C5%8Dg ... TV_series)
see: https://www.fxnetworks.com/shows/shogun
(LOVED the orig.1980 Chamberlain/Mifune series)
was "mr6666" @ TCM
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Re: new ''SHOGUN'' (2024) mini-series
‘Shōgun’: How a Decade of False Starts, Endless Translation Debates and One Star-Turned-Producer Made a Classic Story Relevant to a 21st Century Audience
".... It’s a very different landscape from the one in which “Shōgun” first aired. Clavell’s bestselling 1975 novel already gave rise to one extremely famous limited series, from back when they were just called miniseries: NBC’s 1980 broadcast of “Shōgun,” told through the eyes of Richard Chamberlain’s Englishman-abroad Blackthorne, earned the network its highest weekly Nielsen ratings in its history. It was an Emmy-winning cultural phenomenon that can only be compared to the other miniseries of its era — 1977’s “Roots” especially. And coming ahead of the 1980s economic boom in Japan, it helped catalyze an American obsession with Japanese culture.
Which would seem to make an update a slam-dunk. Yet the journey from this project’s announcement nearly 11 years ago to its Feb. 27 debut on Hulu and FX required painstaking effort, and a willingness to rethink it from the ground up. .....
https://variety.com/2024/tv/features/fx ... 235898388/
".... It’s a very different landscape from the one in which “Shōgun” first aired. Clavell’s bestselling 1975 novel already gave rise to one extremely famous limited series, from back when they were just called miniseries: NBC’s 1980 broadcast of “Shōgun,” told through the eyes of Richard Chamberlain’s Englishman-abroad Blackthorne, earned the network its highest weekly Nielsen ratings in its history. It was an Emmy-winning cultural phenomenon that can only be compared to the other miniseries of its era — 1977’s “Roots” especially. And coming ahead of the 1980s economic boom in Japan, it helped catalyze an American obsession with Japanese culture.
Which would seem to make an update a slam-dunk. Yet the journey from this project’s announcement nearly 11 years ago to its Feb. 27 debut on Hulu and FX required painstaking effort, and a willingness to rethink it from the ground up. .....
https://variety.com/2024/tv/features/fx ... 235898388/
was "mr6666" @ TCM