'Top Gun: Maverick' Director's 'Miami Vice' Remake Officially Casts Villain
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After spending the last few years with fast planes (in Top Gun: Maverick) and fast cars (in F1: The Movie), director Joseph Kosinski is gunning his engines for the greatest speedboat franchise of all time: Miami Vice. Before the cameras start rolling, he's assembling his cast for the glitz and glamor of 1980s Miami, and now he's got his villain, who had a star turn in this summer's The Odyssey.
Miami Vice '85, based on the classic 1980s TV series, will star Austin Butler and Michael B. Jordan as James Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs, a mismatched pair of vice cops who venture into the seedy underworld of 1980s Miami.
Now, as per The Hollywood Reporter, John Leguizamo will join the film to play its primary villain. Leguizamo earned excellent notices this summer as Eumaeus, the blind, elderly, and ever-faithful servant to Odysseus in The Odyssey; there's some speculation that the veteran character actor could earn his first Oscar nomination for the role.
Miami Vice '85 will be released on May 19, 2028. Stay tuned to Collider for future updates.
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