{"id":402758,"date":"2026-09-17T18:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T18:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/402758\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T18:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T18:58:09","slug":"miami-vice-85-john-leguizamo-to-play-the-villian-in-joseph-kosinski-reboot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/402758\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Miami Vice \u201985\u2019: John Leguizamo to Play the Villian in Joseph Kosinski Reboot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Leguizamo, who is in the generating chatter in the awards race for his turn in \u201cThe Odyssey,\u201d will play heavy in Joseph Kosinski\u2019s \u201cMiami Vice \u201985,\u201d Universal\u2019s upcoming film revival of the hit \u201980s TV series, TheWrap has learned.<\/p>\n<p>Michael B. Jordan and Austin Butler\u00a0star. Other cast include Alden Ehrenreich, Whitney Peak, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/creative-content\/movies\/camila-morrone-joins-miami-vice-85\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Camila Morrone <\/a>and Danny Ramirez.<\/p>\n<p>The film, written by \u201cNightcrawler\u201d Oscar nominee Dan Gilroy, will be based on characters created by Anthony Yerkovich for the series, which was executive produced by Yerkovich and Michael Mann. Eric Warren Singer wrote an earlier draft of the screenplay.<\/p>\n<p>The original 1984 \u201cMiami Vice\u201d pilot episode marked the beginning of the partnership between Sonny Crockett and Rico Tubbs, now played by Butler and Jordan, as they take on drug lords and other criminals on the streets of Miami Beach.<\/p>\n<p>The Hollywood Reporter first reported the news.<\/p>\n<p>More to come\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John Leguizamo, who is in the generating chatter in the awards race for his turn in \u201cThe Odyssey,\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-402758","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\/402758","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=402758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}