Joseph Kosinski’s ‘Miami Vice’ Movie Lands August 2027 Release Date, Casting Underway

Director Joseph Kosinski‘s Miami Vice movie is a go.

The Universal Pictures event pic will hit theaters on Aug. 6, 2027, the studio announced Wednesday. Casting is currently underway, with shooting set to begin next year.

Kosinski, who is coming off directing back-to back blockbusters — F1: The Movie and Top Gun: Maverick — will explore the glamour and corruption of mid-’80s Miami in a new version of Miami Vice, inspired by the pilot episode and first season of the landmark television series that influenced culture and set the style of everything from fashion to filmmaking.

Kosinski will film the movie for Imax, much as he did with F1 and Top Gun, in order to enhance the sights and sounds of the iconic series.

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,” series executive producer Michael Mann told The Hollywood Reporter 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, which earned $163.7 million globally.

The film is produced by Dylan Clark (The Batman) and Kosinski and written by Eric Warren Singer and Dan Gilroy, based on characters created by Yerkovich. Kosinski has been kicking the tires on the project since last year, working with longtime collaborator Singer to develop the project.

Kosinski is also on tap to direct a UFO conspiracy thriller that Apple won in a bidding war in March and is mulling a sequel to Top Gun: Maverick.

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.)

Released in summer 2022, the Top Gun sequel exceeded all expectations in grossing $1.5 billion at the worldwide box office for Paramount Pictures and David Ellison’s Skydance. In the time since, Ellison fought a long battle to buy Paramount. He succeeded, with the merger closing early last month. At a press briefing on Aug. 13, Ellison called Top Gun 3 a top priority at the studio, and said he would be in the Tom Cruise business as long as the A-list star — with whom he has made ten films in Ellison’s former life at Skydance — wanted to tell stories with him.

At the event, Ellison called Top Gun 3, the sequel to the $1.5 billion grosser Top Gun: Maverick, a top priority at the studio, and said he would be in the Tom Cruise business as long as the A-list star — with whom he has made ten films in Ellison’s former life at Skydance — wanted to tell stories with him.

Kosinski is expected to return to direct the Top Gun threequel, but the project is now years away from hitting theaters in light of the Miami Vice news.

This summer, Apple Original Films’ F1 was one of the biggest surprises — and performers — at the box office. To date, the Formula One movie has grossed north of $623 million globally and even pulled ahead of DC Studios and Warner Bros’ Superman ($615 million). Warners also released and helped market F1 on behalf of Apple.