{"id":2113208,"date":"2025-10-24T17:20:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T17:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2113208"},"modified":"2025-10-24T17:20:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T17:20:09","slug":"austin-butler-in-early-talks-to-play-sonny-crockett-in-miami-vice-movie-at-universal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/austin-butler-in-early-talks-to-play-sonny-crockett-in-miami-vice-movie-at-universal\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin Butler In Early Talks To Play Sonny Crockett In \u2018Miami Vice\u2019 Movie At Universal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">After Deadline broke the news that <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0430107\/\">Michael B. Jordan<\/a> was in line for the Ricardo Tubbs role in <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0154201\/\">Universal<\/a>\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0086759\/\">Miami Vice<\/a> movie being directed by Joseph Kosinksi, the studio now looks to have zeroed in on his partner. Deadline is hearing <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2581521\/\">Austin Butler<\/a> is in early talks to star as iconic TV detective James \u201cSonny\u201d Crockett, the character made famous by <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000467\/\">Don Johnson<\/a> in <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000520\/\">Michael Mann<\/a>\u2019s 1980s TV series.<\/p>\n<p>Sources say it is still early days and no deals are done, but after scheduling was worked out for the film to shoot later in 2026, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm11127157\/\">Butler<\/a> is engaging and interested. As for <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0429810\/\">Jordan<\/a>, his deal to play <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2773654\/\">Tubbs<\/a> is also early days.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2545235\/\">Eric Warren Singer<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0319659\/\">Dan Gilroy<\/a> are penning the script. <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1249995\/\">Dylan Clark<\/a> and Kosinski are producing.<\/p>\n<p>Universal had no comment.<\/p>\n<p>The film is dated for August 6, 2027, and this incarnation will explore the glamour and corruption of mid-1980s Miami,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Deadline broke the news that Michael B. Jordan was in line for the Ricardo Tubbs role in Universal\u2019s Miami Vice movie being directed by Joseph Kosinksi, the studio now looks to have zeroed in on his partner. Deadline is hearing Austin Butler is in early talks to star as iconic TV detective James \u201cSonny\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2113209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2113208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Austin-Butler-In-Early-Talks-To-Play-Sonny-Crockett-In.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2113208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2113208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2113208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2113210,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2113208\/revisions\/2113210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2113209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2113208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2113208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2113208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}