Joseph Kosinski is giving one other iconic ’80s IP a up to date twist. After helming “Prime Gun: Maverick,” Kosinski will now be directing the “Miami Vice” reboot movie, as THR reported. IndieWire has reached out to reps for Kosinski and Common to substantiate.
Kosinski, who additionally has “F1” at Apple, will collaborate with screenwriter Dan Gilroy (“Nightcrawler,” “The Bourne Legacy”) for the function. Kosinski’s model might be produced by Dylan Clark (“The Batman”).
“Miami Vice” was first an NBC TV collection starring Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas as two undercover Miami law enforcement officials. Michael Mann, who served as a producer on the collection, later introduced the idea to the large display screen in 2006 with Jamie Foxx and Colin Farrell within the Common Photos movie.
Kosinski not too long ago informed Deadline that his Method 1 movie “F1” is technically a sibling function to “Prime Gun: Maverick” with the stunts and digital camera work. “It’s the subsequent era from what we did on ‘Prime Gun,’” Kosinski stated. “Every part is way smaller and the large innovation is that we’re now in a position to management the motion of the cameras on the vehicles. We’re not locked into these sorts of mounted positions we had on ‘Prime Gun.’ Now we’ve got real-time management of panning and focusing them whereas taking pictures via a really in depth RF community that we’ve constructed across the tracks.”
It looks like Kosinski might be swapping planes and vehicles for boats with “Miami Vice.” Mann’s 2006 movie was additionally revolutionary on the time, with its mixture of 35mm and digital pictures. Mann informed IndieWire that in the course of the first two weeks of taking pictures, he had “this recurring nightmare that the movie didn’t actually exist” because of the lack of literal footage. “I’m on the market spending all of the studio’s cash taking pictures one thing that’s some type of conceptual artwork — it solely exists in my creativeness as a result of there may be nothing tangible,” he stated.
“Miami Vice” cinematographer Dion Beebe added, “I hated the thought of dragging this digital system around the globe, attempting to shoot on boats with a tethered digital camera, and all the stuff that we had was terrifying. […] It was difficult as hell, but additionally thrilling if you received within the theater (to display screen dailies) and noticed among the outcomes, and began to acknowledge that this new aesthetic type of rising. […] It’s in all probability nonetheless probably the most troublesome film I’ve ever made.”