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Monday, May 5, 2025

MIAMI VICE Remake In The Works With TOP GUN: MAVERICK Director Joseph Kosinski

Universal Pictures is currently working on a "Miami Vice" remake based on the iconic 1980s NBC series. Joseph Kosinski ("Top Gun: Maverick") is set to direct while "Nightcrawler" writer/director Dan Gilroy is rewriting a first draft script by Eric Warren Singer ("American Hustle", "Only the Brave"). Singer was unavailable to continue because he moved to the "Best of Enemies" project he sold to Amazon with Christian Bale and Bradley Cooper attached.

The origial series starred Don Johnson as James "Sonny" Crockett and Philip Michael Thomas as Ricardo "Rico" Tubbs, two undercover detectives taking down drug dealers in Miami, Florida. The series ran for five seasons on NBC between 1984 and 1989. A previous big screen adaptation was attempted in 2006 by Michael Mann, who also produced the show. The film starred Jamie Foxx and Colin Farrell, but flopped in its theatrical run grossing $165 million against a $135 million budget.

Casting has yet to be announced. In addition to directing, Kosinski will produce through his company, Monolith. Dylan Clark, who worked with Kosinski on 2016's "Oblivion" starring Tom Cruise will also serve as a producer through Dylan Clark Productions. Universal’s executive VP of production development Sara Scott will oversee production on behalf of the studio.

In the meantime, Kosinski's racing drama "F1" starring Brad Pitt will open in theaters on June 27, 2025. He's expected next to reteam with producer Jerry Bruckheimer for an untitled UFO project at Apple.

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Wednesday, June 19, 2024

Will Smith to Star in Sci-Fi Thriller RESISTOR From Sony Pictures

Will Smith is attached to star in Sony's upcoming sci-fi thriller "Resistor", which is based on the 2014 book "Influx" by bestselling author Daniel Suarez. The first draft of the script was written by Zak Olkewicz ("Bullet Train"), and the latest draft was penned by Eric Warren Singer ("Top Gun: Maverick"). No director is currently attached.

Plot details have not been revealed, but the novel follows physicist Jon Grady and his team who have discovered a device that can reflect gravity — a triumph that will revolutionize the field of physics and change the future. But instead of acclaim, Grady's lab is locked down by a covert organization known as the Bureau of Technology Control whose mission it to suppress the truth of sudden technological progress and prevent the social upheaval it would trigger. Because the future is already here, and its rewards are only for a select few. When Grady refuses to join the BTC, he's thrown into a nightmarish high-tech prison housing other doomed rebel intellects. Now, as the only hope to usher humanity out of its artificial dark age, Grady and his fellow prisoners must try to expose the secrets of an unimaginable enemy — one that wields a technological advantage half a century in the making.

The film will be produced by Todd Black, Jason Blumenthal, Steve Tisch and Tony Shaw of Escape Artists, which has been developing the project for some time along with Smith and Jon Mone through Westbrook. Heather Washington is executive producing, and Dave Wilson is a producer. The film is not expected to be Smith's next project.

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Thursday, January 21, 2016

Jennifer Lawrence and AMERICAN HUSTLE Writer Reunite for MARITA

Jennifer Lawrence is set to re-team with "American Hustle" writer Eric Warren Singer for the biopic "Marita". Lawrence will star as Marita Lorenz, a German-born American woman who had an affair with Fidel Castro in 1959 and was involved in a supposed CIA-planned assassination attempt on the dictator's life in January 1960.

Lorenz became involved with Castro when she arrived in Havana with her father at the age of 19. She lived with him for several months, became pregnant and underwent an abortion, which she claims was forced on her. After she left the island, she joined anti-Castro activists in Florida. In the 1970s and 1980s, she testified about the John F. Kennedy assassination, stating that she was involved with a group of anti-Cuban militants and the CIA.

Lorenz's story has been adapted before in Jack Bender's 1999 TV film "My Little Assassin" starring Gabrielle Anwar in the lead role and Joe Mantegna as Fidel Castro.

Lawrence also intends to produce "Marita" alongside Scott Mednick, Matt Tolmach, and Andre Rouleau. So far, no other details are available regarding who will direct and co-star, but I suspect that with Lawrence on board, the project will advance at a rapid pace.

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