{"id":242803,"date":"2026-04-23T04:31:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T04:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/242803\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T04:31:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T04:31:54","slug":"michael-b-jordan-austin-butler-to-star-in-new-miami-vice-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/242803\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael B. Jordan, Austin Butler to Star in New Miami Vice Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Universal Pictures\u2019\u00a0new <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/tag\/miami-vice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Miami Vice<\/a> movie has locked in its Tubbs and Crockett, with <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/tag\/michael-b-jordan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Michael B. Jordan<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/tag\/austin-butler\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Austin Butler<\/a> signed on for the respective roles. Now titled Miami Vice \u201985, it will be shot in IMAX and open in theaters on August 6th, 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Directed by <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/tag\/joseph-kosinski\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Joseph Kosinski<\/a> (Top Gun: Maverick), the film\u00a0is inspired by the pilot and first season of the 1980s TV series and will take place during that time period.<\/p>\n<p>Jordan will play Miami undercover detective Ricardo Tubbs, originally played by Philip Michael Thomas, while Butler will step into the role of Sonny Crockett, famously portrayed by Don Johnson.<\/p>\n<p>Production is set to begin later this year, with Dan Gilroy penning the script based on the characters created by Anthony Yerkovich, who\u00a0executive-produced the original series with Michael Mann.<\/p>\n<p>Related Video<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Universal Pictures\u2019\u00a0new Miami Vice movie has locked in its Tubbs and Crockett, with Michael B. Jordan and Austin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242804,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":{"0":"post-242803","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami","8":"tag-miami","9":"tag-miami-headlines","10":"tag-miami-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242803","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=242803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}