{"id":238503,"date":"2025-10-25T04:56:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T04:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/238503\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T04:56:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T04:56:07","slug":"austin-butler-could-be-the-crockett-to-michael-b-jordans-tubbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/238503\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin Butler could be the Crockett to Michael B. Jordan’s Tubbs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday we reported<\/a> that Michael B. Jordan was in talks to star as one half of Joseph Kosinski\u2019s upcoming\u00a0Miami Vice\u00a0movie, a still-hypothetical proposition that would leave Hollywood casting agents with one doozy of a question. I.e., who do you cast opposite Jordan, in a dyad like this, without automatically just making him \u201cThat white guy standing next to Michael B. Jordan\u201d?<\/p>\n

Deadline reports today<\/a> that at least one name is now being floated for this unenviable task, with suggestions that Austin Butler is now also in talks for the film. Which, okay, we can kind of see: Butler has a lot of heat on him right now, and, like Jordan, has done a deft job so far of navigating between big studio blockbusters and more interesting small-scale performances, like his recent turn in Darren Aronofsky\u2019s\u00a0Caught Stealing<\/a>. Also, at the risk of being crass, indulging in objectification, and otherwise engaging in overall appearance-based grossness, we will note that this particular pairing would not necessarily burden Kosinski\u2019s film with a clear and obvious Hotness Gap, which feels like it could be a real detriment to a Miami Vice\u00a0flick.<\/p>\n

Kosinski, who\u2019s coming directly off of\u00a0F1<\/a>, but who\u2019s still got some of that \u201cMade a $1.5 billion\u00a0Top Gun\u00a0movie 16 years after the fact\u201d aura of invincibility around him, has been talking about making\u00a0Miami Vice\u00a0for about half a year at this point<\/a>. The film wouldn\u2019t actually start filming until some time in 2026\u2014apparently at least in part due to making a little extra room for both Jordan and Butler\u2019s schedules\u2014and would revisit the franchise for the first time since Michael Mann\u2019s movie version in 2006. (Said film saw the Crockett part go to Colin Farrell, stepping in to a role that was originated by Don Johnson in the original 1980s TV series.) It\u2019s also worth noting that neither of these castings are set in stone: Both Butler and Jordan are supposedly \u201cengaged\u201d with the idea, but nobody\u2019s put anything down on paper just yet.<\/p>\n

Everybody’s after Austin Butler (of course!) in Caught Stealing trailer<\/a>Austin Butler and Jeremy Allen White are Enemies<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yesterday we reported that Michael B. Jordan was in talks to star as one half of Joseph Kosinski\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75],"class_list":["post-238503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}