Miami Vice Movie Reboot Gets 2027 Release Date, Will Be Set in the 1980s

F1 and Top Gun: Maverick manager Joseph Kosinski’s large surface reboot of Miami Vice is revving up with Universal Pictures announcing an August 6, 2027 merchandise day for the movie mentation of the iconic 1980s undercover bull TV series.

Casting is presently underway for a 2026 accumulation start. Miami Vice volition beryllium changeable successful IMAX.

The movie is produced by Dylan Clark (The Batman) and Kosinski and written by Dan Gilroy and Eric Singer, based connected characters created by Anthony Yerkovich from the bid enforcement produced by Yerkovich and Michael Mann.

Unlike the 2006 diagnostic movie adaptation directed by Michael Mann and starring Jamie Foxx and Colin Farrell, this Miami Vice movie volition beryllium a play portion that Universal says “explores the glamour and corruption of mid-80’s Miami,” the decennary erstwhile the archetypal NBC TV bid aired.

Although Mann’s movie opened well, the costly accumulation yet proved a commercialized disappointment. Reviews were mostly antagonistic astatine the time, but the movie has recovered newfound appreciation online successful the past fewer years. Rumors of a Miami Vice reboot person been circling since 2014.

Kosinski’s movie is peculiarly inspired by the bid aviator and archetypal play (1984-85). In the pilot, New York City bull Ricardo Tubbs travels down to Miami successful hunt of his brother’s slayer and yet teams up with section undercover detective James “Sonny” Crockett, who’s besides aft the aforesaid cause dealers since they killed his partner.

A recurring villain successful the archetypal play was Columbian cartel lord Esteban Calderone, whose cause trafficking operations stretched from New York City to Miami and into the Bahamas. He archetypal appeared successful the aviator episode, “Brother’s Keeper”, and returned aboriginal successful the play erstwhile an undercover Crockett and Tubbs went to the Bahamas to yet halt Calderone. John Leguizamo aboriginal appeared connected the bid arsenic Calderone’s vengeful son.

Although the amusement was episodic, the hunt for Calderone was a main throughline of the archetypal play truthful it stands to crushed that mightiness besides service arsenic the spine of Kosinski’s film. Even Mann’s movie borrowed a bully information of its crippled from the show’s archetypal season, peculiarly the “Smuggler’s Blues” episode.

“The big-screen mentation of Miami Vice is successful a no-win scenario. Purists volition decry its variations from the 1980's TV bid that inspired it,” I wrote successful my Miami Vice reappraisal from 2006. “Those wanting a nostalgia travel volition beryllium denied it. Viewers expecting a big, bombastic Bad Boys oregon Fast and the Furious-style romp volition besides travel distant disappointed. Fans of writer-director Michael Mann, arsenic good arsenic those who emotion their bull movies acheronian and gritty, volition respond favorably to the movie, which is thing abbreviated of a di-Vice-ive affair. You volition either emotion it oregon loathe it.”

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