Organizers of the coronavirus-postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympics said Wednesday they have picked a new creative director to redesign “simpler and more restrained” opening and closing ceremonies for next year’s Games.
The mammoth task will fall to advertising executive Hiroshi Sasaki, who helped produce the ceremony handing over the Games from Rio to Tokyo — famously featuring then-Prime Minister Shinzo Abe as a character from the Super Mario video game.
Organizers said the decision to replace a previous seven-person creative team would improve efficiency as reshaping the traditionally lavish and spectacular ceremonies to be “in tune with the situation.”
“The ceremonies will stil…
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