'Miami Vice 85' First Look: See Austin Butler and Michael B. Jordan as Crockett and Tubbs

Universal has released a first look at Michael B. Jordan and Austin Butler in the reboot of the 1980s classic TV series Miami Vice '85. Jordan plays detective Ricardo “Rico” Tubbs and Butler plays detective James “Sonny” Crockett. Joseph Kosinski (Top Gun: Maverick) directs the reboot, based on a screenplay by Dan […]

Universal has released the first look at Michael B. Jordan and Austin Butler in Miami Vice '85, the reboot of the 1980s TV classic.

Below are Jordan as Detective Ricardo "Rico" Tubbs and Butler as Detective James "Sonny" Crockett.

Joseph Kosinski (Top Gun: Maverick) is directing the reboot from a script by Dan Gilroy (Nightcrawler). The supporting cast includes: Alden Ehrenreich, Camilla Morrone, Walton Goggins, John Leguizamo, Danny Ramirez, Andre Holland, Michael Irby and Whitney Peek.

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The hit NBC series stars Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas as Miami detectives who work undercover to take down drug lords. Series director and executive producer Michael Mann later rebooted the project for the 2006 film Miami Vice starring Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx.

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I like Jordan's look - assuming that's what he wore in New York, instead of Miami. While the guest stars were usually the protagonists of the week, when the episode was explicitly about one of the regulars, it was more about Tubbs, since he was the main undercover officer, as most undercover officers are in real life.

Also, Michael Mann was not only an executive producer, but a full writer of that show, as is the case with his films. He doesn't have a creator credit because of Yerkovich's experimental script, but everything else was Mann's—from the restoration of Art Deco buildings in Miami, to the production and design of costumes (including introducing new Italian designers to the United States), to the scripts and shooting of parody films (something that even brought television's recent golden age).

Along with what he did in a similar crime story, Mann showed what television could be. And while most couldn't follow, it eventually led to the cable shows we now consider primetime television. And yes, after he left Vice, Dick Wolf and Don Johnson presented the mild but polished version of network TV on the same show.