Forty years after its first broadcast on antenna 2, the cult series will be the subject of an adaptation led by Joseph Kosinski, the director of Top Gun : Maverick.
Forty years later, the two most irresistible cops in Miami still have work to do. Universal Pictures entrusted Joseph Kosinski with the realization of Miami Vice (Two cops in Miami In French version), a film based on the cult series of NBC of the 80s, where infiltrated police tracking drug traffickers and where investigations are generally concluded with exchanges of gunshots.
The filmmaker behind the success of Top Gun : Maverick will therefore dust the series in a new adaptation to the cinema produced by the Universal Pictures studios. Dan Gilroy, the screenwriter of the films Nightcrawler et The Bourne Legacy, will write the scenario from a draft written by Eric Warren Singer, the coscenist of Top Gun : Maverick . For the moment, no details have filtered as for the film or the script for the film.
Created in the early 1980s by Anthony Yerkovich on the initiative of Brandon Tartikoff, then boss of NBC, the series Two cops in Miami Stages the actors Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas in the shoes of two police inspectors, Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs. Broadcast between 1984 and 1989 on NBC, the series arrived in France from September 1986, on antenna 2. With five seasons and more than a hundred episodes, the series marked its time thanks in particular to the iconic look of its characters, to its very “80s” atmosphere and its pop and rock band.
A first adaptation in 2006
The series has already been the subject of an adaptation to the cinema in 2006 by Michael Mann, with Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx to embody Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs. Although the film has received mixed reviews when it was released, it will enter its costs by raising $ 164.2 million worldwide, for an announced budget of $ 135 million.
While waiting to turn on the neon lights and cars of the two cops in pastel color costumes, Joseph Kosinski is preparing to roar the Formula 1 engines. In his next feature film F1scheduled for June 25, the American filmmaker intends to offer the public an unprecedented immersion behind the scenes of motorsport, with Brad Pitt in the role of a veteran pilot with service.
