The Fault in Our StarsandBaby DriverstarAnsel Elgortwill make his series acting debut in WarnerMedia’sTokyo Vice. The drama has received a straight-to-series 10-episode order from WarnerMedia’s upcoming, still to be titled streaming platform.
Based onJake Adelstein’s memoirTokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat, the series adaptation has Tony Award-winning playwrightJ.T. Rogers(Oslo) writing withShort Term 12andGlass CastledirectorDestin Daniel Crettondirecting. In addition to starring, Elgort will also executive produce alongsideJohn LesherandEmily Gerson Saines.
Per Deadline, Tokyo Vice will follow “Jake’s (Elgort) daily descent into the neon soaked underbelly of Tokyo, where nothing, and no one is truly what or who they seem. Elgort’s Jake Adelstein is an American journalist who embeds himself into the Tokyo Vice police squad to reveal corruption.” The series is inspired by Adelstein’s non-fiction account of his years as the first non-Japanese reporter at one of Japan’s largest newspapers, where he covered the criminal underbelly lurking beneath the city’s surface — including human trafficking, murder, and the Yakuza — until he uncovered a scandal so big it resulted in a death threat towards him and his family.
Elgort was last seen in the 2018 filmsJonathanandBillionaire Boys Club, and will next appear alongsideNicole Kidman,Finn Wolfhard, andSarah PaulsoninThe Goldfinch. Next up, he’s set to play Tony inSteven Spielberg’sWest Side Storyremake alongsideRachel Zegler,Brian D’Arcy James, and original starRita Moreno, which is expected to get in front of cameras this summer. He’s also attached to star oppositeJake GyllenhaalandZendayainBrian Helgeland’s crime thrillerFinest Kind.
WarnerMedia’s streaming service is expected to go live this fall.Tokyo Vicemakes the second official series order for the platform afterLove Life, a romantic anthology series executive produced byAnna KendrickandPaul Feig. The WarnerMedia streaming service willreportedly cost 16-17$ a month(way on the higher end compared to its competitors,) but will bundle in HBO and Cinemax along with Warner properties and new productions.
