‘Miami Vice’ Movie Gets August 2027 Release Date
The much in-demand director is making the film for Universal and will begin shooting next year
The next movie of Joseph Kosinski, Hollywood hottest director, is Miami Vice.
The Universal Pictures event picture will hit theaters on August 6, 2027, the studio announced.
Casting is currently underway, with shooting set to begin next year.
Kosinski, who is coming off directing back-to back blockbusters — F1: The Movie and Top Gun: Maverick — will explore the glamor and corruption of mid-1980s Miami in a new version of Miami Vice.
It is inspired by the pilot episode and first season of the landmark TV series that influenced culture and set the style of everything from fashion to filmmaking.
Miami Vice began life as the Anthony Yerkovich-created TV series starring Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas as two cool undercover Miami police officers.
“The ambition of the show was to break the form of everything that had come before,” series exec-producer Michael Mann said of the series, which ran from 1984-1990 on NBC.
Jamie Foxx and Colin Farrell starred in a 2006 feature of the same name that Mann directed, which got mixed reviews and earned only $163.7 million globally.
The film is produced by Dylan Clark (The Batman) and Kosinski. It is written by Dan Gilroy and Eric Singer, based on characters created by Yerkovich. Kosinski has been kicking the tires on the project since last year, working with longtime collaborator Singer to develop the project.
Top Gun: Maverick turned Kosinski into one of the most in-demand filmmakers in town after directing features such as Oblivion and Tron: Legacy. (He is repped by CAA, Untitled and Sloane Offer.)
Released in summer 2022, the Top Gun sequel exceeded all expectations in grossing $1.5 billion at the worldwide box office for Paramount Pictures and David Ellison’s Skydance. In the time since, Ellison fought a long battle to buy Paramount. He succeeded, with the merger closing early last month. At a press briefing on Aug. 13, Ellison called Top Gun 3 a top priority at the studio, and said he would be in the Tom Cruise business as long as the A-list star — with whom he has made ten films in Ellison’s former life at Skydance — wanted to tell stories with him.
This summer, Apple Original Films’ F1 was one of the biggest surprises at the box office. The Formula One movie has grossed north of $623 million globally and even pulled ahead of DC Studios and Warner Bros’ Superman ($615 million). Warners also released and helped market F1 on behalf of Apple.
