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Top Gun: Maverick's Joseph Kosinski is tackling a new Miami Vice, but he's making a UFO thriller first
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Sonny and Rico are heading back to a theater near you.
On April 28, The Hollywood Reporter announced that Universal had tapped Joseph Kosinski, whose films include Top Gun: Maverick and the upcoming Brad Pitt vehicle F1, to direct an updated adventure into the world of Miami undercover narcotics. But there's a bit of a catch - before Kosinski can head to the Florida underworld, he's got to deal with a setting that's a little more sane - that being a true-UFO conspiracy thriller.
Yes, Kosinski is teaming with veteran film producer Jerry Bruckheimer to tackle a government thriller inspired by real-life accounts of UFO investigations or (UAP investigations, if you're in the know). The as-of-yet-untitled project kicked off a ferocious bidding war earlier this year, out of which Apple eventually was crowned victor. Notably, the project will feature David Grusch as a consultant - a US government operative who testified before Congress in 2024 that the United States has encountered technology with no known terrestrial origin.
Despite the UAP project being up next on Kosinski's list, there's no word on when it will by beaming onto AppleTV+ and/or into theaters.
But after that, reports THR, Kosinski's next stop is the nightclubs and dive bars of Magic City. His film will be the second time that the original 1984 Miami Vice TV series was adapted for the big screen, with the first being a famous collaboration between director Michael Mann and stars Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx. Though we don't have any information on who will be starring in Kosinski's take on the drama, we know he'll be tapping Nightcrawler scribe Dan Gilroy to pen the script, which itself will be adapted from an earlier draft by Top: Gun Maverick writer Eric Warren Singer, and will have The Batman producer Dylan Clark on board to produce.
As you might've guessed, there's no word on when Kosinski's Miami Vice will be headed to theaters, or perhaps more importantly, whether Sonny and Rico will be stopping in at the Pentagon for a briefing about strange lights above South Beach. We can only hope.
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