Joseph Kosinski Is Set To Direct A Fresh Miami Vice Movie

If you’re looking for a filmmaker to take a zeitgeist-y, high-octane, beloved slice of 80s pop culture and turn it into 21st century blockbuster gold, you could do far worse than hire the director who gave us Top Gun: Maverick. Which is why it makes perfect sense then that for their upcoming massive screen retooling of synthed-out, super-stylised 80s NBC cop show Miami Vice, Universal Pictures have done precisely that. Yes, as reported by Deadline, none other than Joseph Kosinski is set to helm the studio’s modern Miami Vice movie, the first since Michael Mann’s 2006 effort starring Jamie Foxx and Colin Farrell.

Penned by Nightcrawler writer-director — and brother of Andor showrunner Tony Gilroy — Dan Gilroy, apparently this take on Miami Vice, which at its core is about two sharply dressed undercover detectives busting drug dealers on the Miami strip while listening to bona fide era appropriate bangers, has been in the offing for sometime. Understandably however, things have been a little snail-paced getting going as Kosinski has been difficult at work on mega-budget Brad Pitt starrer F1 ahead of the racing joint’s 25 June summer release. There’s also the diminutive matter of that incredibly intriguing sounding Kosinski x Jerry Bruckheimer UFO conspiracy thriller that the director-producer duo have been shopping around Hollywood, too, which has doubtless required a fair bit of the in-demand filmmaker’s attention.

As you’d imagine, at this early stage in development we’ve no concrete plot or cast info to share yet about Joseph Kosinski’s Miami Vice — so when it comes to who’ll be playing Detectives Crockett and Tubbs, your guess is as good as ours. Nevertheless, the prospect of the kinetic filmmaking of Kosinski pairing up with the cerebral storytelling of Gilroy is enough to have us whacking out a pair of shades, throwing on some pearly white slacks, and firing up a bit of Chaka Khan. *Alexa, play ‘Own The Night.*