Common Photos has set Joseph Kosinski to direct Miami Vice, a Dan Gilroy-scripted drama primarily based on the long-lasting ’80s NBC sequence about undercover cops taking down drug sellers. No forged but. Dylan Clark is producing together with Kosinski.
They’ve been percolating this one for a bit, and Kosinski has one of many summer time buzz titles within the Brad Pitt-starring Components One film F1 made by Apple and headed for theaters by means of Warner Bros. He’s anticipated subsequent to reteam with F1 producer Jerry Bruckheimer for an untitled UFO mission at Apple, and this can come after. Kosinski and Bruckheimer additionally teamed on Prime Gun: Maverick.
Hatched by NBC topper Brandon Tartikoff, who despatched a word primarily asking for a cop drama with the flash of MTV that was so standard on the time, the sequence was created by Anthony Yerkovich. Michael Mann turned it right into a visually iconic zeitgeist cultural image of the Eighties, as undercover cops Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs — Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas — wearing cool pastel wardrobes driving quick automobiles and taking down drug sellers smuggling in cocaine provided by the Mexican cartels within the neon-soaked vistas of Miami with a cutting-edge synthesizer soundtrack and the highest 40 songs of the second.
The present lasted 5 Mann turned the sequence into the 2006 movie for Miami Vice for Common that starred Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx because the undercover duo. Gilroy wrote and directed Nightcrawler, and most not too long ago labored on the Lucasfilm sequence Andor for Disney+.
Kosinski is repped by CAA, Untitled and Sloane Provide; Gilroy is CAA, LBI and Howard Abrahamson. Uni EVP of manufacturing/growth Sara Scott is overseeing for the studio.
MIAMI VICE, Don Johnson, Philip Michael Thomas, 1984-1989. (c) Ray Fairall/ Courtesy: Everett Assortment.
Ray Fairall/ Courtesy: Everett Assortment
MIAMI VICE, Don Johnson, Philip Michael Thomas, 1984-1989
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