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"Miami Vice" Reboot in Development

Danja said:
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‘Miami Vice’ Redo Revs With ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Helmer Joseph Kosinski, Dan Gilroy Rewriting Eric Warren Singer Script

'Miami Vice' Redo Revs With 'Top Gun: Maverick' Helmer Joseph Kosinski, Dan Gilroy Script
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Miami Vice is an outdated relic (medical marijuana is now legal in the state of Florida).

A lot has changed since Crockett and Tubbs last hit the streets.
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I thought was cocaine the criminal drug of choice down Miami way. Did Crockett and Tubbs really go after weed dealers? (I rarely watched the show)
 
It was mostly cocaine (Smuggled in by Colombian drug lords who spoke perfect English! :eek: :rolleyes: )

Most cocaine is now brought in through Mexico via the Cartels.

When I was a kid, we used to call kilos of marijuana that would wash up on shore "square grouper" :lol:
 
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As we had a “straight” remake from Michael Mann, they should make this like the Brady Bunch Movies. It’s modern day Miami but Crockett and Tubbs are still dressing in 1980s suits, driving 1980s cars and still arresting people for possession of cannabis, no matter how often their long-suffering boss tells them that it’s now legal. Oh and bring back the crocodile, who will now be CGI-generated and cute.
 
Captaindemotion said:
As we had a “straight” remake from Michael Mann, they should make this like the Brady Bunch Movies. It’s modern day Miami but Crockett and Tubbs are still dressing in 1980s suits, driving 1980s cars and still arresting people for possession of cannabis, no matter how often their long-suffering boss tells them that it’s now legal. Oh and bring back the crocodile, who will now be CGI-generated and cute.
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We've had quite enough spoofy remakes of old TV shows, thank you. We don't need any more. The Brady Bunch movie is, itself, thirty years old (and only five years past the last MV ep!).

That being said, if they don't set it in the 80s, any remake or reboot is pointless. It's a product of that era. Any other era and its' just a generic "gritty cop" show.
 
If they remade it set in the 80's in Miami, it might work (barring the usual casting choices of Chalomet and Zendaya as Crockett and Tubbs). Miami Vice was a series of 80's music videos with a bit of a plot. It doesn't transcend eras. It's why GTA Vice City worked so well: it didn't mess with the formula.
 
Captaindemotion said:
Oh and bring back the crocodile, who will now be CGI-generated and cute.
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:D

#WelcomeToFlorida

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XCV330 said:
It was, but it worked as a whole. Miami Vice with a prog-rock soundtrack, set in 1980's St. Louis, with the protagonist living on a houseboat and driving a 72 Cougar, is not going to be the same show.
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Totally agree. Just pointing out that, contrary to some ret-con memories, the show wasn't all style and no substance.
 
the G-man said:
Totally agree. Just pointing out that, contrary to some ret-con memories, the show wasn't all style and no substance.
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as a kid I didn't like the final season that started taking itself too seriously. But there were always well written episodes like the one where Castillo went undercover to prison. Really if someone wants to reboot a police drama from that era, I wish they'd do Crime Story, without the nuke silliness.
 
Not against this, but since I havent really watched any cop/csi shows in like a decade, i'm not the market. Good luck though.

Keep the Ferrari (insert itallian hand)
 
XCV330 said:
as a kid I didn't like the final season that started taking itself too seriously. But there were always well written episodes like the one where Castillo went undercover to prison. Really if someone wants to reboot a police drama from that era, I wish they'd do Crime Story, without the nuke silliness.
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Crime Story is one of those where, in my "head canon" it ended earlier than it actually did. I think of it as having ended at the end of Season 1, with no season 2 and Luca dead/nuked in the desert.
 
The Miami Vice movie is one of the few movies I've walked out of.

My brother and I went and saw it for my birthday.

About 1/3 way through, the handheld camera work started to make me feel nauseous, so I ran to the bathroom and threw up.

We went to the ticket counter and asked for our money back and I went back to the apartment, closed the blinds and went to sleep. I haven't watched it since.

Also, back in the mid-80s, there was an adult film called Miami Spice, which gender swapped Crockett and Tubbs that was actually pretty good.

It was shot on film on location in Miami at some of the same spots Miami Vice did and they had a car chase and a speedboat chase and it basically was an episode of Miami Vice with added sex.​
 
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