Miami Vice (movie)

[Brian in Mesa]

Farrell & Foxx Frontrunners for Miami Vice
Source: Variety
October 14, 2004

Universal Pictures is zeroing in on Colin Farrell (Alexander) to star as Det. James "Sonny" Crockett, and the studio is in talks with Jamie Foxx (Ray) to star as Det. Ricardo Tubbs in the big screen adaptation of hit '80s cop drama Miami Vice.

Michael Mann, who executive produced the NBC show, is in negotiations to write, produce, and direct the feature film. Anthony Yarkovich, creator of the TV series, will executive produce the movie.

The original series, which ran from 1984-89, starred Don Johnson as Crockett and Philip Michael Thomas as Tubbs.

 

[Mulli]

Farrell & Foxx Frontrunners for Miami Vice
Source: Variety
October 14, 2004

Universal Pictures is zeroing in on Colin Farrell (Alexander) to star as Det. James "Sonny" Crockett, and the studio is in talks with Jamie Foxx (Ray) to star as Det. Ricardo Tubbs in the big screen adaptation of hit '80s cop drama Miami Vice.

Michael Mann, who executive produced the NBC show, is in negotiations to write, produce, and direct the feature film. Anthony Yarkovich, creator of the TV series, will executive produce the movie.

The original series, which ran from 1984-89, starred Don Johnson as Crockett and Philip Michael Thomas as Tubbs.

I will only go see this if the actors will be wearing eighties' attire and using eighties' lingo.

Hollywood can feel free to come up with original stories at any time.

 

[azdad1978]

I rather play GTA: Vice City than to watch this movie.

 

[Brian in Mesa]

Colin Farrell on the Miami Vice Movie
Source: Chicago Sun-Times
November 29, 2004

Alexander star Colin Farrell talked to the Chicago Sun-Times about playing Det. James "Sonny" Crockett in the upcoming Universal big screen version of Miami Vice, to be directed by Michael Mann.

"I'm not trying on those jackets just yet because I haven't signed, although I'd do anything to work with Michael Mann," says Farrell, who is in talks to star with Jamie Foxx.

Having recently starred in S.W.A.T., why would Farrell sign on to yet another TV adaptation? "The script is great. The director is great. The worst thing about the project is the title, but as a piece in and of itself it's brilliant," Farrell adds.

Farrell says that the script "goes deep into the undercover world. It's Mann doing his heavy and tough stuff, with the kind of great dialogue you saw in 'Heat' and 'Collateral.'"

 

[Brian in Mesa]

Studi and Trejo Joining Miami Vice?
Source: IGN Filmforce
February 10, 2005

IGN Filmforce reports that two veterans of Michael Mann films - Wes Studi and Danny Trejo - are up for roles in the writer/director's big screen remake of Miami Vice, which Universal has scheduled for a July 28, 2006 release.

Studi appeared in Mann's Heat and Last of the Mohicans, while Trejo was a member of Robert De Niro's crew in Heat. Trejo may be up for the role of Lt. Martin Castillo, a role which was originally played by Edward James Olmos in the series.

Colin Farrell will play Det. James "Sonny" Crockett and Jamie Foxx will play Det. Ricardo Tubbs. The original series starred Don Johnson as Crockett and Philip Michael Thomas as Tubbs.

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I think it will be interesting to see how this translates to the big screen. At least it's being done by Mann himself.

 

[Chaplin]

And it sounds like it's actually going to be a serious movie, rather than the tired cliched tv remakes that are almost always comedies.

 

[Brian in Mesa]

Luis Tosar is a Miami Vice Villain
Source: Las Horas Perdidas
June 24, 2005

Las Horas Perdidas tells us that Spanish actor Luis Tosar has landed the role of villain Arcángel de Jesús Montoya in director Michael Mann's Miami Vice, which Universal Pictures will release on July 28, 2006.

A good friend of Javier Bardem since both actors starred in Mondays in the Sun, Tosar has won multiple awards: Best Spanish Actor in 2003 for Take My Eyes (film is the reason for Mann's selection of Tosar), Best Actor at the San Sebastian Film Festibal for the same role and Best Supporting Actor for Mondays in the Sun.

In the big screen version of the '80s cop drama, Colin Farrell will play Det. James "Sonny" Crockett and Jamie Foxx will play Det. Ricardo Tubbs. They face a transnational criminal enterprise whose leader and chief financial officer is of Chinese/Cuban origin (Gong Li).

Naomi Harris, Ciaran Hinds, Elizabeth Rodriguez and John Ortiz also star.

 

[Stout]

Colin Farrel? Um, I think I'll pass.

 

[Brian in Mesa]

Miami Vice

Release Date: July 28, 2006
Studio: Universal Pictures
Director: Michael Mann
Screenwriter: Michael Mann
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Website: Miami Vice

Starring: Jamie Foxx, Colin Farrell, Gong Li, Naomie Harris, Ciarán Hinds, Justin Theroux

Plot Summary: The cocaine cowboys of the '80s are gone, but Miami's Casablanca allure, the undercover cops and the attitudes of Michael Mann's culturally influential television series have been enhanced by time in the feature film version of "Miami Vice".

Ricardo Tubbs (Academy Award® winner Jamie Foxx of Ray, Jarhead) is urbane and dead smart. He lives with Bronx-born intel analyst Trudy, played by British actress Naomie Harris ("28 Days Later," upcoming "Pirates of the Caribbean" II and III), as they work undercover transporting drug loads into South Florida to identify a group responsible for three murders.

Sonny Crockett (Colin Farrell of "S.W.A.T.," "The New World") [to the untrained eye, his presentation may seem unorthodox, but procedurally he is sound] is charismatic and flirtatious until—while undercover working with the supplier of the South Florida group—he gets romantically entangled with Isabella, the Chinese-Cuban wife of an arms and drugs trafficker. Isabella is played by the Chinese actress Gong Li ("Raise the Red Lantern," "Memoirs of a Geisha").

The best undercover identity is oneself with the volume turned up and restraint unplugged. The intensity of this case pushes Crockett and Tubbs out onto the edge where identity and fabrication become blurred, where cop and player become one—especially for Crockett in his romance with Isabella and for Tubbs in the provocation of an assault on those he loves.

"Miami Vice," as a large-scale feature film, liberates what is adult, dangerous and alluring about working deeply undercover…especially when Crockett and Tubbs go to where their badges don’t count…

 

[PortlandCardFan]

For a person that can handle bad movies I gotta say this movie sucked. Slow, bad editing at times, acting was tollerable, bad execution during fire fights, no car chases, crappy sex scenes, long as hell, Collen Ferrell is a turd, Jamie Foxx was okay, very little action.

 

[jenna2891]

For a person that can handle bad movies I gotta say this movie sucked. Slow, bad editing at times, acting was tollerable, bad execution during fire fights, no car chases, crappy sex scenes, long as hell, Collen Ferrell is a turd, Jamie Foxx was okay, very little action.

at first i thought you called him colleen farrell and i was really amused.

 

[Chaplin]

Extremely boring. When I left the movie, I was left shaking my head and asking myself, "Who the hell cares?" Well-made, no question about that, but it seemed like they made the story complicated in order to detract from the fact that it was boring. Didn't work.

 

[PortlandCardFan]

I did like the scene when the chick tapped the guy out in the trailer!

 

[D-Dogg]

I have no desire to ever see this movie. In a theater. On DVD. On HBO. On Cable. None. No desire.

I don't even know why...it just hits me in a really bad way.

 

[abomb]

I want to see it, just so I can see Michael Mann's "fuzzy background as I tight focus on the actor" shots.

 

[Chaplin]

I want to see it, just so I can see Michael Mann's "fuzzy background as I tight focus on the actor" shots.

That's a function of the camera. Night shots are especially tough when shooting on video (the movie was shot on HD), if the shutter isn't open enough, you get noticeable grain. I'm having the same issue with my movie, which is worse because it's not HD. Luckily, I'm going to take advantage of the grain to give it a cool gritty look.

 

[abomb]

That's a function of the camera. Night shots are especially tough when shooting on video (the movie was shot on HD), if the shutter isn't open enough, you get noticeable grain. I'm having the same issue with my movie, which is worse because it's not HD. Luckily, I'm going to take advantage of the grain to give it a cool gritty look.

Yeah, it is a cool effect. I just have to joke around bc Mann uses it in every single movie, esp Heat and Collateral. It's almost to the point that you could watch a movie w/o knowing he directed it and recognize his style.

 

[FArting]

i thought it was good

 

[jenna2891]

i thought it was good

 

[abomb]

i thought it was good

What'd you think of "White Chicks"?

/not being an *****

 

[Bada0Bing]

I just watched it. I wasn’t expecting much, and somehow I was still disappointed. The quote below pretty much sums it up.

For a person that can handle bad movies I gotta say this movie sucked. Slow, bad editing at times, acting was tollerable, bad execution during fire fights, no car chases, crappy sex scenes, long as hell, Collen Ferrell is a turd, Jamie Foxx was okay, very little action.

 

[Louis]

-40 minutes too long
- weird seeing an Asian chick with a Latina accent
- would cops really go that far cause the bad guys killed a criminal informant and his family
- little to no action
- the plot trudged along like a snail in molasses

Spoiler

Why would the top bad guy get pissed cause Colin Ferrell was dancing with his chick after she told him they had sex to his approval?

- the white supremacist angle sucked
- Jamie Foxx was the only redeeming part of this whole movie other than the hot Asian, Latina chick
- was also hoping that the hot Asian, Latina chick's aunt would show up and caller her mija. That would've been the bomb.

 

[Mulli]

Here is something that bugged me: You cannot have a normal conversation on a go-fast boat when going that fast to Cuba. They would have to scream.

 

[PortlandCardFan]

Here is something that bugged me: You cannot have a normal conversation on a go-fast boat when going that fast to Cuba. They would have to scream.

What?

 

[Ryanwb]

Here is something that bugged me: You cannot have a normal conversation on a go-fast boat when going that fast to Cuba. They would have to scream.

This is common movie stuff.... just like you can't shoot duel Desert Eagles with perfect accuracy while diving out of an airplane with no noticible recoil like in Faceoff.

i've shot a desert eagle, nearly blew my arm out of the socket