Director Joseph Kosinski‘s Miami Vice movie is a go.
The Universal Pictures event pic will hit theaters on Aug. 6, 2027, the studio announced Wednesday. 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 glamour and corruption of mid-’80s Miami in a new version of Miami Vice, inspired by the pilot episode and first season of the landmark television series that influenced culture and set the style of everything from fashion to filmmaking.
Kosinski will film the movie for Imax, much as he did with F1 and Top Gun, in order to enhance the sights and sounds of the iconic series.
The film is produced by Dylan Clark (The Batman) and Kosinski and written by Dan Gilroy and Eric Singer, based on characters created by Anthony Yerkovich from the series executive produced by Yerkovich and Michael Mann.
Miami Vice began life as the Anthony Yerkovich-created TV series starring Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas as two undercover Miami police officers known for their love of pastel suits. (“The ambition of the show was to break the form of everything that had come before,” Mann told The Hollywood Reporter last year of the series, which ran from 1984-90 on NBC.) Jamie Foxx and Colin Farrell starred in a 2006 feature of the same name that Mann directed, which earned $163.7 million globally.
Kosinski has been kicking the tires on the project since last year, working with longtime collaborator Singer to develop the project.
Kosinski is also on tap to direct a UFO conspiracy thriller that Apple won in a bidding war in March and is mulling a sequel to Top Gun: Maverick.
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.
More to come.
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