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Miami Vice Movie Update
Foxx, Farrell Take on 'Miami Vice' Duty
Feb 14, 3:00 PM EST
The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES - Add Jamie Foxx and Colin Farrell to the roster of stars resurrecting TV shows for the big screen. Foxx and Farrell will star in a movie version of the cop series "Miami Vice," which will be written and directed by Michael Mann, an executive producer on the show that ran on NBC from 1984-89.
Shooting is scheduled to begin this spring, with the movie tentatively due in theaters July 28, 2006.
Foxx, who co-starred with Tom Cruise in Mann's hitman thriller "Collateral" last summer, will play Detective Ricardo Tubbs, a role originated for TV by Philip Michael Thomas.
Farrell is playing Detective Sonny Crockett, the part created by Don Johnson.
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