Max collection Tokyo Vice has ended after two seasons. The information was revealed in the present day throughout a Produced By panel on the Fox Studios with contributors Max Head of Authentic Content material, Sarah Aubrey, Tokyo Vice creator J.T. Rogers and EP/director Alan Poul.
Stated a Max spokesperson in a press release regarding the collection farewell, “From Tokyo Vice’s richly written materials to the gorgeously composed photographs to the lived-in performances, the care and creativity of this enormously proficient solid and crew shines in each body of the present. We thank J.T., Alan, Ansel, Ken, Fifth Season, and Wowow for his or her partnership on this wholly distinctive fashionable noir thriller.”
Added Rogers and Poul, “Over the past 5 years Max has made positive we received to inform our story. They’ve supported us by thick and skinny. Not solely did they provide us these two seasons, they stated sure once we requested to finish season one with a collection of cliffhangers, they usually stated sure once we requested for 2 additional episodes so we might land the airplane in the way in which J.T. had all the time envisioned.
We’re grateful not solely to Max, however to our companions Fifth Season, who bought the present world wide, and made it a world success story. They have been within the trenches with us all the time, guaranteeing that we might make the present we needed to make. The response from each the press and from followers, particularly to Season 2, has been overwhelming. It’s been thrilling to learn how deeply viewers have engaged with our characters, and to listen to how they’re clamoring for extra.
We all know there may be extra story to inform. In fact we’ll see what the long run holds, however we’re certainly grateful to have been in a position to share this story on Max till now.”
In Tokyo Vice, Elgort performed a western journalist who works for a newspaper in Tokyo. He winds up taking up one of many metropolis’s strongest crime bosses.
Tokyo Vice first aired in 2022, and was initially shot throughout Covid. The delay between seasons stemmed from the ramp-up of manufacturing in Japan per Poul and the larger episode order of ten.
Aubrey talked about in the present day that Tokyo Vice was one of many first collection she purchased for HBO Max. For Rogers, he was buddies with the creator Jake Adelstein, the 2 having met throughout drivers ed. Adelstein, just like the Elgort character, coated the Yakuza as a journalist in Japan. Poul shared the challenges of capturing in Japan, an expertise that goes again to his days on the set of the Eighties Michael Douglas film Black Rain.
Aubrey additionally spoke with Hacks co-creators Lucia Aniello, Jen Statsky and Paul W. Downs.
As well as in the present day, Jeff Schaffer and John Wilson of Find out how to With John Wilson had a chat with Amy Gravitt, EVP and Head of HBO and Max Authentic Comedy Programming.