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To: EdnaMode

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.”


23 posted on 08/02/2017 6:09:54 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines (Their side circles the wagons. Our side revs up the bus.)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

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!


27 posted on 08/02/2017 7:08:30 PM PDT by M1903A1 ("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy... and call it progress")
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