Tokyo Vice’s days on Max have come to a conclusion.
Throughout a panel on the Produced By convention Saturday in Los Angeles, producers confirmed that the not too long ago concluded second season would be the present’s final on the Warner Bros. Discovery-backed platform.
Initially pitched as a two-season present with the occasions of the sequence having ended with its April 4 finale, fittingly titled “Endgame,” star Ansel Elgort additionally solely signed on for 2 seasons of the sequence.
“Over the past 5 years, Max has made certain we acquired to inform our story. They’ve supported us by means of thick and skinny. Not solely did they offer us these two seasons, they mentioned sure once we requested to finish season one with a sequence of cliffhangers, and so they mentioned sure once we requested for 2 further episodes so we may land the aircraft in the best way Lesley Goldberg J.T. [Rogers] had all the time envisioned,” Rogers and director Alan Poul mentioned in a joint assertion. “We’re grateful not solely to Max however to our companions Fifth Season, who offered 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 may make the present we wished to make. The response from each the press and from followers, specifically to season two, 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’s extra story to inform. After all, we’ll see what the longer term holds, however we’re certainly grateful to have been in a position to share this story on Max till now.”
Developed by Max’s unique government regime of Bob Greenblatt, Kevin Reilly and Sarah Aburey, the sequence was picked up straight to sequence in mid-2019 and initially earmarked to be a part of Max when it launched in 2020. These plans, like so many others, went out the window after the pandemic shut down manufacturing throughout the globe. The sequence launched in April 2022 to optimistic critiques. The present has an 89 % common amongst critics and a 92 % viewers rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Tokyo Vice was primarily based on the nonfiction ebook by Jake Adelstein, who detailed his account of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police beat and his every day descent into the neon-soaked underbelly of Tokyo.
“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 [Watanabe], Fifth Season, and [Tokyo TV station] Wowow for his or her partnership on this wholly distinctive trendy noir thriller.”
As Rogers alluded to in his assertion, he had been optimistic about getting a 3rd season of the drama and advised THR in April after the season two finale that he had “a complete story able to go.”
Tokyo Vice is the most recent sequence to get the ax at Max as streamers and networks alike trim their rosters in a bid to right-size their slates in an period of belt-tightening that adopted the tip of the Peak TV phenomenon. Max has additionally canceled The Women on the Bus, Rap Shit, Julia and Our Flag Means Demise, amongst others.