{"id":19317,"date":"2025-10-24T18:41:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T18:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/19317\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T18:41:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T18:41:10","slug":"austin-butler-to-star-as-crockett-with-michael-b-jordan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/19317\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin Butler to Star as Crockett With Michael B. Jordan"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tUniversal<\/a>\u2018s forthcoming Miami Vice<\/a> movie appears to have found its Crockett. <\/p>\n

\n\tAustin Butler<\/a> is in talks to play James \u201cSonny\u201d Crockett in director Joseph Kosinski<\/a>\u2018s planned adaptation of the 1980s NBC series that saw Don Johnson originate the role. The Hollywood Reporter reported earlier this week that Michael B. Jordan<\/a> is in talks to portray<\/a> fellow Miami undercover detective Ricardo \u201cRico\u201d Tubbs, which was Philip Michael Thomas\u2019 role on the show.<\/p>\n

\n\tThis new project has a script from Eric Warren Singer and Dan Gilroy. Kosinski, who directed this year\u2019s F1, produces the adaptation with Dylan Clark (The Batman).<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe Miami Vice movie is said to be inspired by the show\u2019s pilot episode and first season and is set to explore the glitz and corruption of mid-\u201980s Miami. <\/p>\n

\n\tUniversal has scheduled the film<\/a> for theatrical release on Aug. 6, 2027. Shooting is set to begin next year.<\/p>\n

\n\tAnthony Yerkovich created the original Miami Vice series that premiered in September 1984 and ran for five seasons. The show became a cultural touchstone for the decade and is known for its characters\u2019 pastel-heavy and sock-free fashion senses<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tMichael Mann<\/a>, who served as executive producer on the \u201980s series, helmed a feature adaptation of Miami Vice starring Colin Farrell as Crockett and Jamie Foxx as Tubbs. Universal released the film in July 2006, and it collected $163 million globally ($263 million today).<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe ambition of the show was to break the form of everything that had come before,\u201d Mann told THR<\/a> in an interview last year.<\/p>\n

\n\tDeadline was first to report on Butler\u2019s involvement. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Universal\u2018s forthcoming Miami Vice movie appears to have found its Crockett. Austin Butler is in talks to play…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[15704,14703,123,125,124,14704,14705,15756,3435],"class_list":{"0":"post-19317","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami","8":"tag-austin-butler","9":"tag-joseph-kosinski","10":"tag-miami","11":"tag-miami-headlines","12":"tag-miami-news","13":"tag-miami-vice","14":"tag-michael-b-jordan","15":"tag-michael-mann","16":"tag-universal"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}