Daniel Radcliffe will star as American investigative reporter Jake Adelstein in a film adaptation of Adelstein's 2009 memoir Tokyo Vice. (More details about the book, below.)
According to Deadline, Anthony Mandler will direct a screenplay written by J. T. Rogers. Production is expected to begin in early 2014.
Adelstein has a second book coming out next year, The Last Yakuza: A Life in the Japanese Underworld, described by publisher Pantheon as a narrative non-fiction history of post-war Japanese organized crime.
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Tokyo Vice
Jake Adelstein
An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan
Jake Adelstein is the only American journalist ever to have been admitted to the insular Tokyo Metropolitan Police Press Club, where for twelve years he covered the dark side of Japan: extortion, murder, human trafficking, fiscal corruption, and of course, the yakuza.
But when his final scoop exposed a scandal that reverberated all the way from the neon soaked streets of Tokyo to the polished Halls of the FBI and resulted in a death threat for him and his family, Adelstein decided to step down. Then, he fought back.
In Tokyo Vice he delivers an unprecedented look at Japanese culture and searing memoir about his rise from cub reporter to seasoned journalist with a price on his head.
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