Common Footage 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 season buzz titles within the Brad Pitt-starrer Components One film F1 made by Apple and headed for theaters by means of Warner Bros. He’s anticipated to subsequent reteam with F1 producer Jerry Bruckheimer for an untitled UFO undertaking at Apple, and this can come after.
Hatched by NBC topper Brandon Tartikoff who despatched a observe basically asking for a cop drama with the flash of MTV that was so well-liked on the time, the sequence was created by Anthony Yerkovich. Michael Mann turned it into an iconic zeitgeist image of the Nineteen Eighties, as his 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-edged synthesizer soundtrack and the highest 40 songs of the second.
The present lasted 5 Mann turned the sequence right into a 2006 movie for Common that starred Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx because the undercover duo. Gilroy wrote and directed Nightcrawler, and most lately 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/improvement 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
