The long-rumored Miami Vice reboot that’s been said to be in development for some time is officially real, and has a title.
What’s Michael B. Jordan and Austin Butler’s Miami Vice movie called?
According to a new report from Variety, the upcoming Miami Vice reboot will be titled Miami Vice ’85, and will star both Michael B. Jordan and Austin Butler. The movie will come from director Joseph Kosinski, and is scheduled for release on August 6, 2027.
Variety notes that production on the film is set to start later this year, and that the movie will be filmed for IMAX, meaning Universal is committing fully to making this one of their big releases of next year.
Currently, much of Kosinski’s upcoming reboot is unknown. Kosinski will work from a screenplay by Dan Gilroy, said to be based on Eric Warren Singer’s earlier draft. Dylan Clark joins Kosinski in producing the project. Alongside Jordan and Butler, no other casting information is available as of now.
Miami Vice originally began as a crime drama TV show that premiered in 1984. The series followed two detectives, James “Sonny” Crockett (Don Johnson) and Ricardo “Rico” Tubbs (Philip Michael Thomas), who were Metro-Dade Police Department detectives working undercover in Miami. The series ran for five seasons and was critically praised for its uniqueness as a police procedural, where it was inspired heavily by and integrated the 1980s New Wave culture of the time.
The original series was created by Anthony Yerkovich, and executive produced by legendary filmmaker Michael Mann. Mann would later go on to direct his own adaptation of the project in 2006, in a movie that starred Jamie Foxx and Colin Farrell as Tubbs and Crockett, respectively. That film was not well-received upon its release but has since grown into a cult classic for its stylized look and action sequences.
After directing the massive hit Top Gun: Maverick, Kosinski directed 2022’s Spiderhead for Netflix. He also directed 2025’s F1, which earned 4 million at the global box office and was nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards.
