{"id":627754,"date":"2026-09-17T18:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T18:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/627754\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T18:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T18:52:09","slug":"john-leguizamo-miami-vice-85-villain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/627754\/","title":{"rendered":"John Leguizamo Miami Vice \u201985 Villain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/john-leguizamo\/\" id=\"auto-tag_john-leguizamo_1\" data-tag=\"john-leguizamo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">John Leguizamo<\/a>, who earned praise for his performance in Universal\u2019s summer blockbuster <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/the-odyssey\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-odyssey_1\" data-tag=\"the-odyssey\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Odyssey<\/a>, is returning to the studio for its big-screen take on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/miami-vice\/\" id=\"auto-tag_miami-vice_1\" data-tag=\"miami-vice\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Miami Vice<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Leguizamo has joined Miami Vice \u201985, adding to the crime thriller\u2019s cast that already includes Michael B. Jordan, Austin Butler, Alden Ehrenreich, Whitney Peak, Camila Morrone and Danny Ramirez.<\/p>\n<p>Joseph Kosinski, who helmed the propulsive Top Gun: Maverick and F1, is directing the new big-screen take on the 1980s TV show, with the feature project eyeing a November production start and shoots in New York and Miami.<\/p>\n<p>The new feature will explore the glamour and corruption of mid-\u201980s Miami in a new version of the property, inspired by the pilot episode of the landmark television series that influenced culture and set the style of everything from fashion to filmmaking.<\/p>\n<p>Miami Vice began life as the Anthony Yerkovich-created TV series starring Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas as two undercover Miami police officers known for their love of fast boats and pastel suits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tJordan is playing Ricardo Tubbs while Butler is playing James Crockett, the two swagger-strutting detectives.<\/p>\n<p>Sources say that Leguizamo will be the piece\u2019s main villain. <\/p>\n<p>Vice \u201985 will be filmed for Imax and is set for release by Universal Pictures on May 19, 2028. Producing are Dylan Clark via his Dylan Clark Productions (The Batman) and Kosinski.<\/p>\n<p>Leguizamo has quietly become a member of the Universal repertoire. The actor was one of the key players in Christopher Nolan\u2019s Odyssey, in which he portrayed the blind loyal friend Eumaeus opposite Matt Damon\u2019s Odysseus. That movie has now become the highest-grossing feature of all time for the studio with a $1.68 billion haul. <\/p>\n<p>And on top of nabbing the Vice 85 role, Leguizamo has also scored a role in the studio\u2019s untitled feature project from filmmaking duo Daniels. That one reunites him with Damon and is currently in production in L.A. Additionally, the actor appears in Universal\u2019s The Exorcist: Martyrs, the horror reboot by Mike Flanagan that the studio will open March 12, 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Leguizamo, who recently saw the release of his Scholastic children\u2019s book Kiki and the Can, featuring special artwork by Latino graffiti artist John \u201cCrash\u201d Matos, is repped by UTA, Mosaic and Jackoway Austen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John Leguizamo, who earned praise for his performance in Universal\u2019s summer blockbuster The Odyssey, is returning to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":627755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60,132396,181261,83194],"class_list":["post-627754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-john-leguizamo","tag-miami-vice","tag-the-odyssey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}