Universal Developing a MIAMI VICE Reboot?
According to El Mayimbe from Latin-Review, Universal Pictures is looking to develop another big screen adaptation of the classic 1980s series Miami Vice. The studio is supposedly already out meeting with screenwriters and taking pitches for the project, which they want to turn into a franchise.
In 2006 Michael Mann made a Miami Vice movie that in no way represented the original series in any way, shape, or form. I like a lot of Mann's films, but his adaptation of Miami Vice with Jamie Foxx and Colin Farrell isn’t one of them.
The NBC crime drama series was created by Anthony Yerkovich and was actually produced by Mann. The show ran for five seasons from 1984–1989, and it starred Don Johnson as James “Sonny” Crockett and Philip Michael Thomas as Ricardo “Rico” Tubbs. They were two Metro Police detectives working undercover in Miami.
I imagine this next time around the studio will want a film that is closer to the TV series than the version that Mann gave us.