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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
Hatched by NBC topper Brandon Tartikoff who sent a note essentially asking for a cop drama with the flash of MTV that was so popular at the time, the series was created by Anthony Yerkovich. Michael Mann turned it into a visually iconic zeitgeist cultural symbol of the 1980s, as undercover cops Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs — Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas — dressed in cool pastel wardrobes driving fast cars and taking down drug dealers smuggling in cocaine supplied by the Mexican cartels in the neon-soaked vistas of Miami with a cutting-edged synthesizer soundtrack and the top 40 songs of the moment. The show lasted five Mann turned the series into the 2006 film for Miami Vice for Universal that starred Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx as the undercover duo.
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