Max collection Tokyo Vice has been axed after two seasons. The information was revealed right now throughout a Produced By panel on the Fox Studios with contributors Max Head of Unique 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 forged 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, “During the last 5 years Max has made certain we bought to inform our story. They’ve supported us by way 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 collection of cliffhangers, and so they mentioned sure once we requested for 2 further episodes so we may land the aircraft in the way in which J.T. had at all times envisioned.
We’re grateful not solely to Max, however to our companions Fifth Season, who bought the present all over the world, and made it a worldwide success story. They have been within the trenches with us at all times, guaranteeing that we may make the present we needed to make. The response from each the press and from followers, specifically to Season 2, has been overwhelming. It’s been thrilling to learn the way 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 longer term holds, however we’re certainly grateful to have been capable of 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 right now 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 right now, Jeff Schaffer and John Wilson of The way to With John Wilson had a chat with Amy Gravitt, EVP and Head of HBO and Max Unique Comedy Programming.
