Posted on 08/02/2017 4:19:02 PM PDT by EdnaMode
Miami Vice is eyeing a return to NBC. The network has put in development a reboot of its signature 1980s action crime drama, with the Fast & Furious duo of Vin Diesel and Chris Morgan producing.
The remake, which had been in the works since last season, will be written by Peter Macmanus (The Mist, Satisfaction) and produced by Universal Television, Chris Morgan Productions and Diesel’s One Race TV. No executive producers have been locked in yet, but Morgan and Ainsley Davies of Chris Morgan Productions are expected to serve as EPs along with Diesel and Shana Waterman of One Race and Macmanus. Both Morgan and Diesel have deals with Universal TV.
The original series, created by Anthony Yerkovich and executive produced by Michael Mann, starred Don Johnson as James “Sonny” Crockett and Philip Michael Thomas as Ricardo “Rico” Tubbs, two Metro-Dade Police Department detectives working undercover in Miami. It quickly became a pop culture phenom and ran on NBC for five seasons from 1984-89. The show, unlike standard police procedurals, drew heavily on 1980s New Wave culture and music, and became noted for its integration of music and visual effects.
USA began airing reruns in 1988, joined by an originally unaired episode, which ran on January 25, 1990.
A film adaptation of the series, directed by Michael Mann, was released by Universal in July 2006 with Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx as the leads.
This is one of two broadcast series remakes that are already in the works for next season, along with Charmed at the CW, from Jane the Virgin creator Jennie Urman Snyder.
Morgan is repped by ICM Partners and McKuin Frankel. Macmanus is with UTA.
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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