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Iconic '80s TV show 'Miami Vice' is getting a big-screen reboot. Here's what we know

Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald on

Published in Entertainment News

MIAMI — It’s time to haul those pastels out of storage. “Miami Vice” is making a comeback. Again.

A big-screen project is in the works more than three decades after the iconic TV show went off the air, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

The beloved undercover cop drama was revived on the big screen once before, by Michael Mann in 2006, with Jamie Foxx playing Tubbs and Colin Farrell as Crockett.

This time around, action director du jour Joseph Kosinski (“Top Gun: Maverick,” “F1”) will take the reins.

Casting has not yet been announced, but we sure hope they consider bringing on Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas at least for cameos. It would also be fantastic if shooting was actually in Miami, just as the TV series was back in the crazy ‘80s.

 

Johnson has talked often about the experience of being a part-time Magic City resident for the five seasons the show was atop the NBC ratings heap.

South Beach back then was nothing like it is now, the 75-year-old told the Miami Herald in 2014. It was dead, full of retirees in rocking chairs and ratty hotels in need of repair.

“You could shoot off a cannon, maybe hit a blue heron. It was deserted!” he said at the time. “I was like going, ‘What the hell are we doing here?’ Don’t get me wrong. I loved it. I mean, I still have a love for Miami. It’s just a part of me. I’m so grateful for my time there.”


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