Jon Hamm and Andrew Koji Set for Takashi Miike's Tokyo Thriller Bullfrog
Jon Hamm and Andrew Koji are set to star in Bullfrog, a psychological thriller from Japanese director Takashi Miike, Variety reported on 13 November 2026.
The story is set in a near-future Tokyo under lockdown. Koji plays a Japanese detective. Hamm plays a former FBI profiler. Together, their characters track a mysterious serial killer through a city where normal life has been restricted.
The film has a sales team and a financing team already in place. mk2 Films has come on board as international sales company, the firm that will offer the finished film to cinemas and streaming services in territories outside North America. CAA Media Finance is handling North American sales and financing. Financing is the money used to make the film, and the sales companies are the ones who find it a home once it is ready.
The screenplay is by Eric Jordan Baker. The producers are Nathan Ross and David Styne, with Misako Saka also producing. The Japanese company OLM is overseeing production in Japan, which places the shoot in the country where the story is set.
Principal photography is planned for summer 2027, so the cameras are still well over half a year away. Until then, the project is in the stage where its cast, sales partners and production base are being fixed, and the screenplay and budget can still be worked on.
For a general audience, the chain behind a film like this is longer than most people see. A writer produces a script, a director and a cast are attached, a sales company and a financier take on the risk, and a production company builds the shoot in a chosen country. Each link is a decision made by a person or a company, and Bullfrog now has several of them.
Miike is a director whose name is often attached to genre films that cross borders, and this project brings a Hollywood actor and a Japanese actor into one thriller set in Tokyo. The release dates, distributors in each country and the eventual running time all remain to be announced.
