Media | Articles
Miami Vice to Return to the Big Screen
Roll up your Armani suit sleeves and get your synthesizers synchronized because a new Miami Vice movie has got the green light.
Deadline reports that, fresh from filming F1, director Joseph Kosinski will be behind the cameras for the reboot of the pastel-hued, high-octane Eighties cop show.
If it’s true to the original Michael Mann-directed TV series, then it’ll be the cars that really star in the next Miami Vice. In the first two seasons, Sonny Crockett, played by Don Johnson, drove a Ferrari Daytona Spyder, although the car was actually a Corvette-based replica from McBurnie Coachcraft, employed because Ferrari North America reportedly turned down the producers when they asked for a hero car for the show.
By season three, Ferrari, having witnessed the show’s success, changed its tune and provided two Testarossas in black, which the show’s production team subsequently had painted white. Crockett would drive a Testarossa until Miami Vice concluded in 1989.
Every episode was a car spotter’s dream, with on-screen appearances from the latest Lamborghini, Maserati, Lotus, DeLorean, and Porsche, along with classic muscle cars such as the Pontiac GTO and Trans Am, Plymouth Barracuda, Mustangs, and Corvettes.
When Michael Mann brought Miami Vice to theaters for the first time in 2006, Crockett (now played by Colin Farrell) drove a Ferrari F430, with Jamie Foxx riding shotgun as Ricardo Tubbs.
No actors or automobiles have been confirmed for the new Miami Vice movie, but Dan Gilroy (Nightcrawler) is said to be working on a script. Hopefully Jan Hammer can be coaxed out of retirement to write the score.
Motor movies are back in a big way, with Kosinski’s F1 hitting theaters in June, a Maserati flick due by the end of the year and a Bugatti biopic to follow, and even an Outrun film in development. Meanwhile, to get you in the mood, enjoy the emotive Moog music from the original Miami Vice, below.
Hollywood has no original ideas. Reboot, prequels, in-between quels. It’s so hard to be excited on this.
You’re absolutely right about this. Won’t expect much of anything new from Hollywood. We’d have to revive the dead first. Because writing was better well before 1990.
Are you kidding me, if they do it true to the original show and actual 80’s culture, it could fly, even spawn a new generation of fans, because the resolution will be vastly upgraded. You need good writing tho.
These remakes fail badly. I hope they cancel this one.
Loved miami vice tv show. Movie sucked. Hope this one does better.
my same thoughts!
Yes it is rather disappointing that Hollywood has resorted to rehashing TV shows and bad remakes of classic old movies. “Flight of the Phoenix’ and “The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3” should have not been redone . Though there are a few good ones. “True Grit’ and ” 3:10 to Yuma” as those few and far between examples. But other than that in general… When I become president, or ruler of the universe, which ever becomes first, all ‘Marvel Comics’ superhero movies will be banned for a period of five years , unless permitted by executive order. ‘Miami Vice” permanently
I don’t know how they going to make this work sonny died in the last episodes I don’t know nothing can replace Don Johnson……
Sonny didn’t die, did he? Last episode was him driving Tubbs to the airport.
Sonny didn’t die he quit because of the politics of his job he interfered with a FBI investigation and they said they were going to have his job. He said I’ll save you the trouble you can have it and tossed his badge then Tubbs did the same. Sonny locked up the boat and drove Tubbs to the airport because he was going back to Chicago finally.
New York not Chicago
Sonny didn’t die he quit because of the politics of his job he interfered with a FBI investigation and they said they were going to have his job. He said I’ll save you the trouble you can have it and tossed his badge then Tubbs did the same. Sonny locked up the boat and drove Tubbs to the airport because he was going back to Chicago finally.
His son could
Obviously you don’t know Miami Vice that well to even say that Sonny died in the last episode.
Sorry no one can replace DON JOHNSON AS SONNY
BRING THEM BACK AS RETIRED OR FATHERS OF PRESENT DAY COPS.
Funny Miami Vice story: My friend called me one day around 1987, and asked if I wanted to go to Miami this weekend. I was in school at Western Michigan, studying Auto Engineering, and said “Why not?” He picked me up Thursday morning in his Datsun pick up, and we drove straight down there, found a parking lot downtown, and I jumped in the bed of the truck and fell asleep. My bud slept in the driver seat. About 3:00 AM there was a commotion in the parking lot and I realized they were filming an episode right next to us. There was some cool car and very large overweight man in a suit and some other suited guy doing a scene next to the car, along with a couple camera’s and support and lights, etc.. I had a front row seat and watched the whole thing.
Perhaps the biggest yawn of the decade. Never even watched the show, and kept flipping by this story until I reached the bottom of my “should I read it?” list.
It will be a waste of time as all re-boots are. Exhibit#1 “The Italian Job” . I rest my case.
The Italian job was great.
@Jimmy- I agree. The original was incredible. Benny Hill liked ’em big.
I loved Miami Vice! I hope the reboot has been cast well.
Having grown up in Ft Lauderdale I always got a kick out of the show and it’s real Miami area locations, unlike CSI Miami which was largely filmed in CA. The giveaway was the flora: south Florida is subtropical, LA isn’t. And there are no 80 foot tall Washington palms in Miami either; they wouldn’t make it through the first hurricane.
PS: there’s a BMW 2002 figuring in one of the episodes.
To this day I still consider Miami Vice to be my all time favorite television show bar none. The show had it all, the cars, the music, the pastel colors, the beautiful women and many great guest stars. Personally I thought the movie remake was hugely disappointing. The 2 main characters just didn’t seem right for the role and the movie never displayed the same feel as the TV show. Really hoping they get it right this time.
I wholeheartedly agree with others who say without Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs it’s just not “cooking with gas” like my Grandpa Cote’ use to say.
My opinion nothing beats the originals that we grew up with. The Miami vice movie remake was horrible i like the actors but it didn’t have the Michael mann touch. Maybe it would have had success by not using the characters we love and grew up with. Give them new names and faces. The remake of Point Break was so horrible and an embrassment to the original it should have never taken in the movie name and characters called it something else. If they brought back Miami vice as a TV show with new names and faces with today’s technology and various cars, new crimes, and various special guests. So many Hollywood stars did appreances on the show Bruce Willis. Gene Simmons. Get opinions of Miami vice fans opinions on why they loved the show. One of the best things about the shows we watched back in the day we weren’t overly sensitive and offened by the littlest things and enjoyed our action movies and shows
As an avid Miami Vice fan I will welcome any remake. The movie version didnot hit the mark as a followup to the show, even though Michael Mann had a hand in it. Hope this one is better. Vin diesel has the rights to the project.