A New York City man is facing charges after allegedly pulling out a knife near the set of the latest \u201cMiami Vice\u201d reboot.<\/p>\n
On Friday around 11 p.m., the New York Police Department received a call about a man brandishing a knife near the intersection of Avenue N and McDonald Avenue in the borough of Brooklyn.<\/p>\n
The caller, identified only as a 42-year-old man, told police that he had been in a verbal dispute with an \u201cunidentified individual\u201d when the man took out a knife, according to a police spokesperson.<\/p>\n
The suspect was identified as Brooklyn resident Alex Perez, 23. The police spokesperson said Perez was taken into custody without incident and charged with menacing and criminal possession of a weapon. There were no reported injuries, she said.<\/p>\n
In a video obtained by TMZ<\/a>, a man the outlet identified as Perez is shown taking out a large butcher\u2019s knife from his black sweatshirt pocket.<\/p>\n The Brooklyn district attorney\u2019s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment Monday night. It was not immediately clear whether Perez has a lawyer.<\/p>\n NBC New York reported that \u201cMiami Vice \u201885\u201d had been filming nearby along Bay Parkway and McDonald Avenue, near Washington Cemetery. <\/p>\n Universal, the studio behind the film, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Joseph Kosinski, the director behind \u201cF1\u201d<\/a> and \u201cTop Gun: Maverick,\u201d is directing \u201cMiami Vice \u201985.\u201d The movie, which according to Universal was in production as of Oct. 12, features Michael B. Jordan as Tubbs and Austin Butler as Crockett, according to the company\u2019s social media posts<\/a>.<\/p>\n The movie is based on Anthony Yerkovich\u2019s iconic 1980s TV cop show. A movie adaptation directed by Michael Mann, also called \u201cMiami Vice,\u201d came out in 2006 but was a box-office flop, The Times reported<\/a> at the time.<\/p>\n