Miami Vice ’85 is recreating television history frame by frame. Fresh set photos and videos from the New York set show Michael B. Jordan and John Leguizamo filming scenes that faithfully recreate the opening sequence of the original 1984 series pilot.
Miami Vice ’85 set (Credits: XNY/Star Max/GC Images via IGN)
Jordan plays NYC police detective Ricardo Tubbs, while Leguizamo confirmed on Instagram that he portrays Esteban Calderone — the Colombian cartel boss who served as the pilot’s antagonist. It is a full-circle casting: Leguizamo got his big break playing Calderone’s son in the original series back in the 1980s.
Miami Vice ’85: Austin Butler as Sonny Crockett
Recent batches of set photos also reveal Austin Butler as Sonny Crockett, Tubbs’ future partner, shooting the earliest sequences that introduced both characters in the original two-part pilot. The production has clearly gone deep on authenticity, rebuilding the pilot’s iconic opening moments for a new generation.
It is known that Miami Vice ’85 takes inspiration from the series’ legendary two-part pilot — the one that launched Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas into stardom in 1984 and defined an entire era of pastel-and-palm-tree cool.
Miami Vice ’85 Release Date and Details
The film, inspired by the 1984–89 NBC series, pairs two of Hollywood’s biggest young leading men as television’s most famous mismatched cop duo. Set photos continue to trickle out of the New York shoot, each one sending fans deeper into nostalgia — the fandom is triggered, in the best and worst ways, by every frame that mirrors the original.
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