EXCLUSIVE: Danny Ramirez is the latest to join the cast of Universal Pictures and Joseph Kosinski’s Miami Vice ’85 movie starring Michael B. Jordan and Austin Butler. Kosinski will direct the latest feature adaptation of the classic ’80s crime series, which has a script by Dan Gilroy. Alden Ehrenreich, Camila Morrone and Whitney Peak recently joined the cast.
Miami Vice ’85 explores the glamour and corruption of mid-1980s Miami in an all-new version of Miami Vice, inspired by the pilot episode of the landmark Universal Television series that influenced culture and set the style of everything from fashion to filmmaking. The movie will l be filmed for Imax and is set for release on May 19, 2028. Production will begin this year. It us unknown who Ramirez is playing in the pic.
The film is produced by Dylan Clark/Dylan Clark Productions and Kosinski. Gilroy’s script is based on characters created by Anthony Yerkovich from the series he executive produced with Michael Mann; Eric Warren Singer wrote an earlier draft of the screenplay. EVP Production Development Sara Scott and Creative Executive of Production Development Christina Hoffrogge will oversee the project for the studio.
Ramirez recently wrapped production on Todd’s Haynes’ De Noche opposite Pedro Pascal as well as Baton, which he also directed and penned. He can be seen next in Marvel’s Avengers: Doomsday.
He is repped by CAA, Anonymous Content, Brillstein Partners and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman, Newman, Warren, Richman, Rush, Kaller & Gellman.
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