Michael B. Jordan and Austin Butler’s long-awaited Miami Vice reboot now has an official title, a director and a release date, and it’s shaping up to be one of the most exciting blockbusters on the horizon.
The film will be called Miami Vice ’85Universal has confirmed.
Directed by Joseph Kosinski, the man behind it F1 and Top Gun: Maverick, it is scheduled for release on August 6, 2027 and will be filmed for Imax.
Production is set to begin later this year.
Newly crowned Best Actor Oscar winner Jordan will play Ricardo “Rico” Tubbs, while Oscar nominee Butler takes on James “Sonny” Crockett, the roles made famous by Philip Michael Thomas and Don Johnson in the classic 1980s TV series, and later recreated by Jamie Foxx and Colin Farrell in Michael Mann’s 2006 big-screen adaptation.
Kosinski had made it clear that he had both men at the top of his wish list.
“Michael is someone I have admired for a long time, [and] always wanted to work with him. Austin, I think, proves that he is one to watch. Again, I just really admired his choices,” he shared Black when the talks were first reported last year.
“If it ends up being the two, I’d be very lucky.”
Both actors arrive at the project in exceptional form.
Jordan won the Academy Award, a SAG-AFTRA Award and two NAACP Awards for her dual performance in Ryan Coogler’s Sinnersand is also directing and participating in a re-performance of The Thomas Crown case.
Butler, whose portrayal of Elvis Presley earned him an Oscar nomination and launched him into Hollywood’s prime, has since worked with Denis Villeneuve, Jeff Nichols, Darren Aronofsky and Ari Aster, and will next appear in a crime drama. Enemies along with Jeremy Allen White.
The film’s logline promises a dive into “the glamor and corruption of mid-80s Miami,” drawing inspiration from the pilot episode and first season of the original series.
The screenplay was written by Dan Gilroy, working from characters created by Anthony Yerkovich.
