Just as Lenkov told Entertainment Weekly, the star behind "Hawaii Five-O's" beloved M.E. did indeed leave the series to pursue a career producing. In 2017, Oka kicked-off his career in the field with director Adam Wingard's "Death Note," which he co-produced alongside Jason Hoffs, Ted Sarandos, Roy Lee, and Dan Lin. The film starred Oscar nominee LaKeith Stanfield ("Judas and the Black Messiah"), and was adapted from Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata's popular manga series of the same name (via The Book Smugglers). In 2019 and 2021, Oka executive produced the game "Outer Wilds" and its follow-up, "Outer Wilds: Echoes of the Eye," before moving from film, to video game, to television with the upcoming action-adventure series "The Promised Land," which is currently in pre-production.
Oka will also produce the upcoming animated "Mega Man" film, and has been officially attached to three more upcoming projects, including Doug Liman's "Live Die Repeat and Repeat" (a proposed sequel to "Edge of Tomorrow") and Andy Muschietti's manga adaptation "Attack on Titan," as well as Taika Waititi's long-awaited live-action reimagining of "Akira" (via IMDb).
For those keeping track, that's a whopping eight different projects, but if you thought the star had moved behind the camera for good, you thought wrong. The former "Hawaii Five-O" actor will star alongside Brad Pitt and Sandra Bullock in David Leitch's upcoming action thriller, "Bullet Train," currently in post-production.
