Lavish remake after 48 years: 10-hour samurai epic from Lord of the Rings director promises one of the biggest series of 2024

After a long wait, the first trailer for the samurai epic Shōgun has been released. The remake of the novel of the same name is a visually stunning historical series

The series Shōgun has been in development at US broadcaster FX for five years. Now the ambitious project has finally been announced with a first trailer. The story of the Samurai epic is based on the novel of the same name by James Clavell and takes us back to Japan in the 1600s.

War, betrayal and passion: Shōgun has everything it takes to become one of the best series of 2024

The story centers on British navigator John Blackthorne (Cosmo Jarvis), who is on his way to Japan with a Dutch warshipon his way to Japanon his way to Japan. Military and economic interests motivate the voyage. But then the sea swallows the ship and John is stranded on the coast of Japan.

As a prisoner, he arrives at the court of the daimyo Toranaga (Hiroyuki Sanada). Over time, he is able togain the trust of the powerful feudal lordand he is able to win the samurai’s trust. However, when he falls in love with the samurai lady Toda Mariko (Anna Sawai), the situation becomes precarious and he must make a serious decision in order to survive.

Here you can watch the trailer for Shōgun:

Clavell’s novelpublished five years earlier had already been made into a film series in 1980, at the time with cinema legendToshirō Mifune(The Seven Samurai) in the leading role. Over four decades later, another adaptation of the story awaits us. The new Shōgun series was conceived as a mini-series withten one-hour episodes

Responsible for the production is, among others,Charlotte Brändström, who hasspent a lot of time in Middle-earth in the past. She is one of the central directors ofThe Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Powerand has also directed individual episodes ofThe Witcher,Outlanderand the John Wick seriesThe Continental