Casting News: Ken Watanabe & Ansel Elgort to HBO Max, Lee Pace & Jared Harris to Apple
Michael Mann To Direct Ansel Elgort & Ken Watanabe In HBO Max Series Pilot ‘Tokyo Vice’ https://t.co/lfv3cg9LyY pic.twitter.com/4ZTjLErS0o
- Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) October 22, 2019
- Michael Mann is set to direct Ansel Elgort and Ken Watanabe in the pilot for a new HBO Max series, Tokyo Vice.
- Mann could potentially direct more episodes of the series as well.
- The series is based on the firsthand accounts of a reporter who followed the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Beat.
Lee Pace, Jared Harris to Star in Apple’s Isaac Asimov Series ‘Foundation’ https://t.co/6Akbsxyfxl
- Variety (@Variety) October 22, 2019
- Lee Pace and Jared Harris have been cast in the new Apple series Foundation.
- The series is based on the Isaac Asimov novel series of the same name.
- The novels chronicle the story of The Foundation, "a band of exiles who discover that the only way to save the Galactic Empire from destruction is to defy it".
- Harris will play Hari Seldon, while Pace will play Brother Day.