{"id":242847,"date":"2026-04-23T05:21:34","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T05:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/242847\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T05:21:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T05:21:34","slug":"miami-vice-officially-moving-forward-with-michael-b-jordan-austin-butler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/242847\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Miami Vice’ Officially Moving Forward With Michael B. Jordan & Austin Butler"},"content":{"rendered":"

After months of reporting and speculation surrounding the production, the Miami Vice<\/a> reboot is officially moving forward. There was an air of uncertainty surrounding the film, which has Joseph Kosinski attached as the director. The filmmaker is coming hot off the release of F1, which starred Brad Pitt and which Kosinski had directed. Despite no Oscar wins, the Best Picture nomination was more than enough to cement the Warner Bros. and Apple Original co-production as a success. Now, the Miami Vice reboot isn’t just happening, it’s also confirmed to have Michael B. Jordan and Austin Butler as its leads, two actors who Kosinski had said<\/a> he would be “lucky” to have.<\/p>\n

The news of the reboot moving forward also comes with an exciting new update, per Variety<\/a>, in the form of an official title: Miami Vice ’85. Universal Pictures will be producing the movie, which is slated for release on August 6, 2027. Production on the project will start later this year, and is also confirmed to be filmed for IMAX. With Kosinski’s track record of ambitious and large-scale projects, it only makes sense that this reboot will be filmed on the premium format to capture this new vision of Michael Mann’s<\/a> original television series.<\/p>\n

Best Actor winner Michal B. Jordan will be playing Ricardo “Rico” Tubbs and Austin Butler will be portraying James “Sonny” Crockett. Both of these characters were originally brought to life by Phillip Michael Thomas and Don Johnson in the original ’80s television series, and then again by Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx in the first feature film adaptation, which was directed by Michael Mann. The logline for the movie states that Miami Vice ’85 will explore “the glamour and corruption of mid-’80s Miami,” staying true to the setting of the television series.<\/p>\n

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For those more interested in what the focus of the specifics of the plot will be, the logline also states that the film is “inspired by the pilot episode and first season of the landmark television series that influenced culture and set the style of everything from fashion to filmmaking.” Kosinski and the rest of the production team are clearly trying to play up to the ’80s aesthetic and the superstar power of its two leads. Jordan is currently working on the Thomas Crown Affair<\/a>, which he stars in and directs, and Butler is set to appear in the A24 crime thriller Enemies alongside Jeremy Allen White.<\/p>\n

Miami Vice ’85 is written by Dan Gilroy, a screenwriter and director whose credits include Nightcrawler (which he also directed), Kong: Skull Island, and Velvet Buzzsaw. Now that Universal is officially moving forward with the remake, it will be interesting to see what other cast members or production crew will be added to the ambitious project. Kosinski’s eye for stylistic action, as evident in films like Oblivion, Top Gun: Maverick, and Tron: Legacy, is sure to marry well with the aesthetic and vibe of Miami Vice ’85, which is sure to be a different kind of adaptation than what was seen in Mann’s 2006 adaptation, which was set in the present-day at the time of its release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After months of reporting and speculation surrounding the production, the Miami Vice reboot is officially moving forward. There…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-242847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242847","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=242847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}