Michael Mann To Direct Ansel Elgort & Ken Watanabe In HBO Max Series Pilot ‘Tokyo Vice’
Michael Mann has been set by HBO Max to direct the pilot episode of Tokyo Vice, the drama series that stars Ansel Elgort and Ken Watanabe. Mann will potentially direct more episodes of the series in its freshman season, and he becomes executive producer alongside J.T. Rogers, John Lesher, Emily Gerson Saines, Alan Poul, Elgort, Destin Daniel Cretton and Watanabe.
Move brings an A-list filmmaker to one of HBO Max’s first drama series, and was written by Rogers based on Jake Adelstein’s non-fiction first-hand account of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police beat. The drama captures Adelstein’s daily descent into the neon soaked underbelly of Tokyo, where nothing, and no one is truly what or who they seem. It is informed by his memoir Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter On The Police Beat In Japan.
Production on the series begins in February on location in Japan.
Crockett: Where do you like to go?
Isabella: What do you like to drink?
Crockett: I'm a fiend for sake.
Isabella: I know a place. I'll take you to the best place for sake.
Crockett: Where is that?
Isabella: Suntory Lounge Eagle
Crockett: In the Keys?
Isabella: Tokyo
Crockett: Tokyo? Japanese don't like my business... and they don't like my passport.
Isabella: It's OK, the harbor master is my cousin.
