#Miami vice movie series#
During its five-season run on NBC, the series had immortalized Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas in the TV Cop Hall of Fame as super-stylish undercover officers James "Sonny" Crockett and Ricardo "Rico" Tubbs respectively.
#Miami vice movie movie#
That movie earned Foxx a Best Supporting Actor nomination that accompanied his Best Actor nod - and eventual win - for Taylor Hackford's Ray.Īt that point, Mann and Foxx decided to go for the hat trick by setting their sights on Miami Vice. Three years later, they reteamed for 2004's Collateral, where Foxx once again pulled focus from the movie's nominal star, a silver-haired Tom Cruise. The duo first met on Mann's 2001 biopic Ali, where Foxx's quiet performance as Drew Bundini Brown often stole the spotlight from Will Smith's transformative star turn as the boxing icon. It was a rough end to what had been a remarkable collaboration for both artists. Behind the scenes, though, the damage was apparently done: even though he and Mann seemed on good terms during the movie's promotional tour, they notably haven't made another film together in the past 15 years.Ĭolin Farrell, Jamie Foxx and Michael Mann on the set of Miami Vice (Photo: Universal / Courtesy Everett Collection) Foxx eventually came back to finish the shoot, and Miami Vice premiered in theaters on Jto solid reviews and box office. The actor's absence necessitated major third act rewrites that moved the movie's climax from South America back to the mainland United States. Instead, their partnership exploded in spectacularly public fashion in October 2005 when Foxx fled the Dominican Republic set of Miami Vice - the long-awaited movie version of Mann's blockbuster '80s TV series - and refused to return. In the early years of the 21st century, it looked like Michael Mann and Jamie Foxx were going to be Hollywood's latest dynamic director-actor duo, following in the footsteps of Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro, John Carpenter and Kurt Russell, and Wes Anderson and Bill Murray.
Colin Farrell as Sonny Crockett and Jamie Foxx as Rico Tubbs in Michael Mann's Miami Vice, which celebrates its 15th anniversary.
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