Michael B. Jordan and Austin Butler’s long-anticipated Miami Vice reboot now has an official title, a director and a release date, and it is shaping up to be one of the most exciting blockbusters on the horizon.
The film will be called Miami Vice ’85, Universal has confirmed.
Directed by Joseph Kosinski, the man behind F1 and Top Gun: Maverick, it is scheduled for release on 6 August 2027 and will be filmed for Imax.
Production is set to begin later this year.
Freshly 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 television series, and later reimagined by Jamie Foxx and Colin Farrell in Michael Mann’s 2006 big-screen adaptation.
Kosinski had made clear he had both men at the top of his wish list.
“Michael is someone I’ve admired for a long time, [and] always wanted to work with him. Austin, I think, is proving himself as someone to watch. Again, I’ve just have really admired his choices,” he told Variety when talks were first reported last year.
“If it ends up being those two, I’d be very lucky.”
Both actors arrive at the project in exceptional form.
Jordan took home the Academy Award, a SAG-AFTRA award and two NAACP awards for his dual performance in Ryan Coogler’s Sinners, and is also directing and starring in a reimagining of The Thomas Crown Affair.
Butler, whose portrayal of Elvis Presley earned him an Oscar nomination and launched him into the top tier of Hollywood, has since worked with Denis Villeneuve, Jeff Nichols, Darren Aronofsky and Ari Aster, and will next appear in crime thriller Enemies alongside Jeremy Allen White.
The film’s logline promises a dive into “the glamour and corruption of mid-80’s 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.
