Miami Vice ’85: the remake with Michael B. Jordan and Austin Butler now has its title

And he confirms that the story will take us back to the 80’s roots of the original series.

It’s a reboot that should take us completely back to the 1980s.

The new movie Miami Vice worn by Michael B. Jordan and Austin Butler now has an official title: Miami Vice ’85.

And immediately, we understand that the story will take us back to the original era of Ricardo Tubbs and Sonny Crockett, recalling that the series with Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas, alias Two Cops in Miami in France, was broadcast between 1984 and 1990.

This time, it’s Michael B. Jordan, just crowned with his Oscar for best actor for Sinnerswho will play Ricardo “Rico” Tubbs, while Oscar nominee Austin Butler will play James “Sonny” Crockett. They will succeed Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx, who already formed a new duo in the 2006 film adaptation directed by Michael Mann.

Except that the filmmaker had decided to move the story into its contemporary era – therefore the early 2000s – plunging Crockett and Tubbs into a post-September 11 world, darker, globalized and brutal, quite far from the universe of the original series, which was immersed in the flashy 80s.

We understand from the title Miami Vice ’85 that this new reboot will return to the roots of the cop show. Produced by Universal Pictures, it will be directed by Joseph Kosinski (behind Top Gun: Maverick And F1) which promises a dive into “the glamor and corruption of Miami in the mid-80s”. The film is directly inspired by the pilot and the first season of Two Cops in Miami. The screenplay is by Dan Gilroy.

Miami Vice ’85 will be released on August 4, 2027 in cinemas in France. Filming, designed for IMAX, should begin by the end of the year.