‘Miami Vice’ Movie in the Works With Joseph Kosinski Directing (2025)

Joseph Kosinski is headed to Miami. The filmmaker behind the $1.49 billion hit Top Gun: Maverick is attached to direct a Miami Vice movie for Universal, sources tell The Hollywood Reporter.

Nightcrawler filmmaker Dan Gilroy is penning the script, from an earlier draft by Top Gun: Maverick scribe Eric Warren Singer, who had to move on to commitments on Amazon MGM Studios’ Best of Enemies, starring Christian Bale and Bradley Cooper. The Batman producer Dylan Clark is producing through Dylan Clark Productions and Kosinski producing through Monolith.

Miami Vice began life as the Anthony Yerkovich-created TV series starring Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas as two undercover Miami police officers known for their love of pastel suits. (“The ambition of the show was to break the form of everything that had come before,” executive producer Michael Mann told THR last year of the series, which ran from 1984-90 on NBC.) Jamie Foxx and Colin Farrell starred in a 2006 feature of the same name that Mann directed and which earned $163.7 million globally.

Kosinski has been kicking the tires on the project since last year, working with longtime collaborator Singer to develop the project and pitch it to the studio. Though Miami Vice will not be the next project he directs, with his busy schedule including a UFO conspiracy thriller that Apple won in a bidding war in March. He next has the Brad Pitt racing drama F1 due out in June.

Top Gun: Maverick turned Kosinski into one of the most in-demand filmmakers in town after directing features such as Oblivion and Tron: Legacy. He is repped by CAA, Untitled and Sloane Offer.

Gilroy, whose credits also include The Bourne Legacy and work on brother Tony Gilroy’s Andor, is repped by CAA, LBI and Howard Abrahamson.

Clark, also known for Matt Reeves’ Planet of the Apes movies and Kosinski’s Oblivion, is represented by CAA and 42West.

Singer, who penned the upcoming Now You See Me: Now You Don’t, is repped by WME, Range Media Partners and Gochman Law Group.