charts the collision of two ambitious men from different worlds and a mysterious female samurai: John Blackthorne, a risk-taking English sailor who ends up shipwrecked in Japan, a land whose unfamiliar culture will ultimately redefine him Lord Toranaga, a shrewd, powerful daimyo, at odds with his own dangerous, political rivals and Lady Mariko, a woman with invaluable skills but dishonorable family ties, who must prove her value and allegiance. Novelist and screenwriter Ronan Bennett will write the FX’s adaptation. Van Patten directed the first and second-ever episodes of Thrones, so he didn’t stick around Westeros long, but he made his time count. Now, according to Entertainment Weekly, FX is adapting it again, and they’ve tapped Game of Thrones director Tim Van Patten to helm multiple episodes. The book was adapted as a miniseries starring Richard Chamberlain in 1980 and went on to sell over 30 million copies. Shōgun is a 1975 novel by author James Clavell, chronologically the first book in his six-part “Asian Saga,” a name I’m just going to leave alone.
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