No Our fault reporting, Ansel Elgort is really coming to our small screens!
On March 14, HBO Max released the trailer for its upcoming crime drama Tokyo Vice, starring Elgort, Ken Watanabe Rinko Kikuchi. The J.T. Rogers–created series is loosely based on American journalist Jake AdelsteinThis is a nonfiction, firsthand account by of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Beat.
Tokyo Vice follows Adelstein—played by Elgort—and his “daily descent into the neon-soaked underbelly of Tokyo in the late ’90s, where nothing and no one is truly what or who they seem,” according to the show’s description.
Adelstein states in the trailer that “Giving up is no option.” I want to see the true Tokyo. What’s below the surface.
“Listen, Jake,” Hiroto Katagiri (Watanabe)—a detective for the Tokyo Metropolitan Police who guides Adelstein—tells the journalist, “with information, everything you do has consequences. Every action has a price.
The suspenseful video continues, with Adelstein racing through violent streets. Katagiri then adds that “This world once we open it, it’s very difficult to close.”