Alden Ehrenreich Joins ‘Miami Vice ’85’

(Left) Alden Ehrenreich arrives at the 14th Governors Awards in the Ray Dolby Ballroom at Ovation Hollywood on Tuesday, January 9, 2024. Credit/Provider: Trae Patton / @ A.M.P.A.S Copyright: ©A.M.P.A.S. (Center) Michael B. Jordan poses backstage with the Oscar® for Actor in a Leading Role during the 98th Oscars® at Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, March 15, 2026. Credit/Provider: Etienne Laurent / The Academy (Right) Austin Butler at the 16th Governors Awards in the Ray Dolby Ballroom at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, November 16, 2025. Credit/Provider: Nick Agro / The Academy. Copyright: ©A.M.P.A.S.

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Alden Ehrenreich is joining the new ‘Miami Vice’ movie.
Austin Butler and Michael B. Jordan are starring.
Joseph Kosinski is directing.

The new big screen take on cult 1980s detective drama ‘Miami Vice’ is really beginning to come into shape.

With Austin Butler and Oscar winner Michael B. Jordan confirmed as cops Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs, Deadline brings word that Alden Ehrenreich (‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’) is joining the movie in an unspecified role.

Joseph Kosinski, who directed the likes of ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ and last year’s ‘F1,’ plans to bring IMAX technology and current filmmaking techniques to the 1985-set story. Shooting should kick off this year.

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What’s the story of ‘Miami Vice’?

(L to R) Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas in the TV series ‘Miami Vice’. Photo: NBC/Universal.

‘Miami Vice’ began life in the early 1980s as a TV show created by ‘Hill Street Blues’ writer Anthony Yerkovich, after NBC president Brandon Tartikoff requested a program that combined the style of MTV with a cop series. The result, produced by Michael Mann, starred Don Johnson as Crockett and Philip Michael Thomas as Tubbs, two detectives working undercover in Miami. The show, which ran for five seasons from 1984 to 1990, became known for its groundbreaking visual style, its hip needle drops, and the fashions worn by its characters, arguably revolutionizing the look of TV crime drama for decades to come.

After Mann moved into directing feature films, he rebooted ‘Miami Vice’ as a 2006 movie starring Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx as Crockett and Tubbs. While not initially a hit with either critics or audiences, the film has since been reappraised and is now considered a cult classic.

Th new film, written by Dan Gilroy (‘Nightcrawler’) explores the glamour and corruption of mid-’80s Miami in a story inspired by the pilot episode of the original show.