Miami Vice ’85 moved back to 2028; The Mummy 4 releasing a year earlier in 2027

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Universal has switched two of its major films, with Miami Vice ’85 pushed from 2027 to 2028, and The Mummy coming out a year earlier, in 2027. Update: Two of Universal Pictures’ biggest upcoming movies had had a bit of a switcheroo. Top Gun: Maverick director Joseph Kosinski’s cop thriller revival, Miami Vice ’85, will ... Miami Vice ’85 moved back to 2028; The Mummy 4 releasing a year earlier in 2027

Universal has switched two of its major films, with Miami Vice ’85 pushed from 2027 to 2028, and The Mummy coming out a year earlier, in 2027.

Update: Two of Universal Pictures’ biggest upcoming movies had had a bit of a switcheroo. Top Gun: Maverick director Joseph Kosinski’s cop thriller revival, Miami Vice ’85, will no longer come out in August 2027; we’ll have to wait until 19th May 2028 for it instead.

That’ll disappoint fans of pastel suits and fast cars. There’s good news for fans of matinee-inspired pulp adventures, though: The Mummy, which will reunite Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz for the first time in decades, is coming out sooner. Once slated for the 19th May 2028, it’s coming out on the 15th October 2027.

The reason for the switch-around? Schedules, seemingly. Deadline writes that it’s “only because one is in more of a position to go than the other.” Miami Vice ’85 has two in-demand stars in the lead – Michael B Jordan and Austin Butler – as well as a busy director, so the date change is probably to give the production more time to get things lined up.

More on these as it comes in.

Previously…

23rd April 2026: Top Gun: Maverick director Joseph Kosinski is officially making his Miami Vice movie at Universal, and it’s had a slight title change to capture a hint of retro nostalgia: it’s now called Miami Vice ’85.

Rather than a modern updating, like series creator Michael Mann’s own Miami Vice from 2006, Kosinski’s movie will be a period piece. And playing the suave Miami cops at its centre – named Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs – you’ll find Austin Butler and Michael B Jordan respectively. They’re names that have been attached for a while, but it’s now been made official, per Deadline.

It’s thought that the movie will adapt the original pilot episode from 1984, in which Tubbs, a New York detective, heads to Miami to track down the drug trafficking kingpin involved in the death of his partner.

In March (see below) it was rumoured that Tom Cruise could play the drug lord villain. We’ll have to wait and see how that pans out.

Miami Vice ’85 also has a release date: 6th August 2027. A summer cop movie!

Our previous story follows…

20th March 2026: While we need to emphasise that this is a rumour for now, it does come from a reputable source: the veteran Hollywood scoop merchant, Daniel Richtman (or DanielRPK).

The word is that Tom Cruise, with the Mission: Impossible franchise seemingly behind him, could be about to play the villain in director Joseph Kosinski’s new Miami Vice film, said to be coming out in 2027. The star is being “eyed” for the role, according to Richtman.

Again, we have to treat this as a rumour for now, but there’s at least some plausibility to the story. Tom Cruise has worked with Kosinski before, on the sci-fi thriller Oblivion and a minor plane film called Top Gun Maverick, and while he tends to play gleamy-toothed heroes, Cruise has also played the odd villain now and again – most famously in Michael Mann’s Collateral, but also as the grotesque producer Les Grossman in Tropic Thunder.

Kosinski’s remake is said to be based on the original Miami Vice episode from 1984, with Michael B Jordan and (reportedly) Austin Butler as detectives Tubbs and Crockett. In the original episode, the villain was a Colombian drug lord named Calderone. If the report’s true, it could be Cruise occupying that role next year.

We’ll bring you more as we get it. A hat-tip to World Of Reel for this story.

Previously…

24th October 2025: There’s a decent chance that Michael B Jordan could be about to play detective Ricardo Tubbs in director Joseph Kosinski’s new film version of Miami Vice. Deadline reports that the Creed and Sinners star is in talks to play the role with the word being that Kosinski’s intended scheduling – he intends to start filming next year – fits with Jordan’s.

The actor’s currently working on another remake – The Thomas Crown Affair, the second updating of the classic Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway thriller (it was remade a second time in the 1990s, a vehicle for Pierce Brosnan and Renee Russo). That movie’s currently in production and due for release in 2027 – the same year Miami Vice is set to come out.

Assuming the deal’s closed, it’s the Sonny Crockett role left to fill, as played by Don Johnson in the 80s show and Colin Farrell in the 2006 movie. Maybe Kosinski could pull a Sinners and have Jordan play both…?

Earlier…

18th September 2025: Having enjoyed another hit with the riskily expensive F1 The Movie, director Joseph Kosinski’s getting on with his take on Miami Vice – a new adaptation of the 1980s TV series created by Michael Mann.

Set up at Universal Pictures, the Kosinski take on Miami Vice was initially talked about in April, but it now sounds as though progress is being made. Casting is said to be underway, with filming set to begin in 2026 and a release window set for August 2027.

According to Variety, Kosinski’s Vice will differ from Michael Mann’s own movie adaptation, starring Jamie Foxx and Colin Farrell and released in 2006. Where that crime thriller updated its setting and characters to what was then the present, the latest version – written by Dan Gilroy and Eric Warren Singer – will take place in the 1980s. Their script “explores the glamour and corruption of mid-80s Miami,” a blurb shared by the outlet reads, adding that it’ll be based on the 1984 pilot episode, Brother’s Keeper.

If accurate, this means Kosinski’s film will be an origin story of sorts, exploring how Miami cop Sonny Crockett (originally played by Don Johnson) teams up with New York detective Rafael Tubbs (Philip Michael Thomas) to bring down a Columbian drug dealer who killed the former’s partner. The 1980s setting also means we’ll almost certainly see the return of the Ferrari Daytona Spyder that Crockett and Tubbs hammered around in, while its slick, MTV-inspired style is a perfect fit for Kosinski’s own architect-chic brand of filmmaking.

Kosinski’s enjoyed an impressive few years since he made his debut with Tron Legacy in 2010. That cyber odyssey was followed by the lovely-looking post-apocalyptic sci-fi thriller Oblivion (2013), underseen firefighting drama Only The Brave (2017), and Top Gun: Maverick, which sent his reputation into the stratosphere when it made almost $1.5bn in 2022. That same year, he also directed the Netflix sci-fi thriller Spiderhead, which is one of those typical streaming films we could swear we’ve seen but struggle to remember anything about.

It’ll be intriguing to see who Kosinski and his team choose to play the new Crockett and Tubbs. It’ll require a pair of young-ish actors who can generate the requisite buddy cop chemistry; might we humbly suggest Cooper Hoffman and David Jonsson? Their performances in The Long Walk provided a glimmer of warmth in a brutally despairing film. And after that gruelling dystopia, it’d be fascinating to see them trading quips in a Ferrari. Just a thought.

More on the new Miami Vice as it comes in.

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