Posted on 08/02/2017 4:19:02 PM PDT by EdnaMode
Agreed. The casting will be very important as well.
The Bren Ten was a POS
Miami Vice was lightning in a bottle. It was a groundbreaking TV for the 80s, with a “movie sensibility” that hadn’t been seen on the small screen before. Now, however, you have dozens of TV shows, including cop shows, that borrow from movies. So there’s not really anything new they can bring to the table. And Trying to set it back in the 80s again would just look campy.
This will bomb faster than “Cop Rock.”
One of the great things about Vice was that, for all the neon and pastels, it was very much a “noir” detective series, where the heroes could lose as often as win.
These days, howver, what with “the Shield,” “True Detective,” and even early seaons of “CSI” that’s common place.
Miami Vice is a victim of its own success. So many other cop shows borrowed from it (and Hill St Blues) that to a modern viewer it would just seem cliched, not groundbreaking.
They tried a TV remake of Miami Vice in 2006. It sucked!
Superb analysis, and you’re completely correct.
What brought us to Miami Vice was how they always seemed to lose. No matter how hard they tried, just about all of the witnesses they were protecting, all of the abused people and all the of the downtrodden STILL managed to fail time and time again.
It was almost depressing and for that it was completely addictive.
It seemed that at the end of the day, villainy always won. A mirrored window into reality of fighting drug dealers, pimps and smugglers.
The closest I can think of was “Crime Story”...also a Michael Mann work.
That would potentially be game for a remake (*if* they can find another ex-Chicago street cop like the late Dennis Farina for the lead, and another genuine ex-Outfit associate like the late John Santucci in support)...just stick to the 1960s Big City and DON’T move to Vegas!
Ricardo Tubbs is a homosexual with an attraction to 'Sonny'. Trudy Joplin also volunteers with BLM and her favourite comment to any Caucasian is, "Watch it, sucka!" Gina Navarro is 350 pounds of La Raza nationalism, continually whining about how the gringos stole Northern Mexico and how the Southern states will soon be reunited with Mexico.
Sure, I'll want to watch this!
Weren’t most of them shipped from Dixon & Dornauer without mags?
How about rebooting “Tales of the Gold Monkey” from 1982?
(And I speak that as a fan of the only TV show that has ever inspired me to sit down and write fanfiction....)
What about a reboot of Supertrain?
Pfft...”The Big Bus”!
I think so my buddy worked for bren would get to take and test fire guns at the police range it was a crazy company with very very loose control
I don’t how or even why. I can go to Hulu and watch the original and that was a good show about the first two seasons or so.
Then who will play the parts? Chances are they won’t be nearly as good as Johnson & Thomas. Why not just bring the Johnson and Thomas back as the older and wiser Crockett and Tubbs. I might watch that. They could play retired Cold Case detectives.
Boy did it and casting was one of the main reasons.
I found episodes of SuperTrain on YouTube recently.
I loved “The Big Bus”.
Sonny Crockett, probably the only fictional Florida Gator alum in TV history.
Great episode. Bruce McGill sitting in the back seat singing “I Fought the Law.”
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