https://winteriscoming.net/2018/08/07/game-thrones-director-adapt-shogun-fx/
This is from the link above (can't wait to watch it):
According to Entertainment Weekly, FX is adapting the "Shōgun" mini-series, and they’ve tapped "Game of Thrones" director Tim Van Patten to helm multiple episodes.
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 .... Novelist and screenwriter Ronan Bennett will write the FX’s adaptation .... Here’s the network’s official synopsis:
[Shōgun] 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.
Hollywood has come under fire in recent years for its depiction of Asian characters, and a story about about Japanese culture that revolves around a white guy may not be the best way to course correct .... however, the new adaptation will focus on a diversity of viewpoints, rather than zeroing in on Blackthorne’s perspective, as the 1980 adaptation did
The story will be told from multiple points of view .... there’s an opportunity to tell the story of two cultures in a way that wasn’t done before...
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