While celebrating season one of at an Emmys For Your Consideration event on Tuesday, the team behind the hit FX series gave a few hints at what the future of the show may look like. Last month, it was announced that second and third seasons are , expanding the story past its original limited series format. That expansion will see the show move beyond the James Clavell book that inspired the series and was entirely covered in season one.
Co-creator said he and fellow creator (who are married) have been plotting ahead on a potential season two since December and joked they are at the “arguing” stage of development. “And shooting down each other’s ideas,” Kondo added. “No, there’s a lot of chaos but creative chaos, where we’re throwing everything that we have at the wall, seeing what sticks.
It’s been exciting and nerve-wracking because, obviously, this is uncharted territory — we don’t have a roadmap, we just have history.” The pair were recently in Japan to do research and visit different locations, and in working alongside Clavell’s estate, are “trying to study his process of curation,” Kondo said. “How did he curate, which events, which characters, which characters can you conveniently combine — those sorts of things that kind of allow you to make something new.
” “There’s a lot of great conspiracy theory in history, a lot of different theories about, ‘Oh, it was said that this went on, but this really went on,’ and those little dar.