Here’s an exciting casting development. Michael B. Jordan might be able to keep his wardrobe from the end of Sinners with the news that he’s in early talks to star in Joseph Kosinski’s Miami Vice movie for Universal.
According to Deadline Jordan is set to play TV detective Ricardo Tubbs, who alongside his partner Sonny Crockett solved crimes beneath the sun-kissed skies and neon nights of 1980’s Miami. Top Gun: Maverick and F1 director Kosinski is hoping to shoot sometime in 2026, working from a script by Eric Warren Singer (Now You See Me, Now You Don’t) and Dan Gilroy (Nightcrawler).
Their version of Miami Vice will reportedly ‘explore the glamour and corruption of mid-1980s Miami’ and be based on the pilot episode and first season of the iconic series, which starred Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas and ran for five seasons between 1984 and 1989. Michael Mann also helmed a stylish and hugely underrated 2006 blockbuster version headlined by Jamie Foxx and Colin Farrell.
Kosinski’s Miami Vice is set for release on August 6th 2027, which should give Jordan plenty of time to finish his next directorial effort, an eagerly anticipated update of The Thomas Crown Affair, in which he will also star alongside Adria Arjona, Kenneth Branagh, Lily Gladstone, Danai Gurira, and Pilou Asbæk.
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