Miami Vice

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Miami Vice 2 on the way?

LIFE STYLE EXTRA (UK) - Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx want to make a sequel to 'Miami Vice'.

The Hollywood actors - who played undercover detectives Crockett and Tubbs in the movie remake of the cult 80s TV show - are keen to work together again, and are urging director Michael Mann to make a sequel.

A source is quoted as saying: "Colin and Jamie really hit it off on 'Miami Vice' but they were disappointed the film didn't do better.

"They very much want to work together again and they both want another 'Vice'. They feel there is scope for another story."

However, the two actors may have their work cut out persuading Mann to agree to make a follow-up.

The director has refused to commit to a sequel and said he will only consider it if he can come up with a brilliant plot first.

At the London premiere of the film in July, Mann said: "If I have an idea for a story that I think I want to do then we'll see what happens."

[pete]

yeah I loved the first one and all, but unless there is a brilliant plot, I can't wait another brewing hour and 45 minutes just to see 3 awesome brutal killshots.

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Miami Vice Cracks Down
Mann's big-screen action adaptation arrives in Dec.

On December 5, 2006, Universal Studios Home Entertainment will release Miami Vice (Unrated Director's Edition) on DVD. The motion picture based on the '80s television series as helmed by Michael Mann stars Jamie Foxx, and will feature tons of bonus materials and extra features. It will be available for the MSRP of $29.98.

The Miami Vice (Unrated Director's Edition) DVD will feature the following bonus materials:

Miami Vice Undercover Making-Of Featurette
Miami and Beyond: Shooting on Location
Visualizing Miami Vice Featurette
Feature Commentary with writer-director-producer Michael Mann
Behind-the-Scenes Featurettes




Source: Hollywod Elsewhere

For those who had issues with Michael Mann's Miami Vice, or who so loved the fumes of it (like me) that it felt like perfectly calibrated adult escapism by way of a bad-ass drug-dealing movie, there's an Unrated Director's Cut coming on 12.5 that's definitely a different deal than what played last summer in theatres.

How is it different exactly? I talked about it with a couple of Univeral Home Video publicists today and it's a little hard to describe, but I'll give it a shot. What it boils down to is that 7 minutes of never-before-seen extra footage have been added. Or maybe 9 minutes. It depends how you define the word "minutes." But a lot of stuff has also been re-edited and/or shortened or recalculated -- about 19 minutes worth, the publicists said. So if you add it up it's got about 28 and 1/2 minutes of fresh stuff...in a sense. Or, if you want to be a hard-ass about it, 7 minutes worth with some editorial reshuffling thrown in.

Put it this way: Mann obviously knew that the theatrical version didn't work all that well with Average Joes, or not well enough, so he gave it another shot and what came out is a different movie, to some extent. It starts with a boat chase instead of a nightclub scene, for one thing. I was hoping there'd be more footage of Gong Li naked, but the publicists disabused me of that dream. Thanks, Michael...thanks a lot.

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NOTE: I watched the Unrated Director's Edition


The first thing I have to mention is how greatly miscast Gong Li was. She just did not fit into the character she was playing, and that also completely threw off the chemistry between her and Crockett. But despite that, which stuck out like a sore thumb (along with the horrible In The Air Tonight remake), I enjoyed the film. It was a healthy translation to the big screen, keeping some of the key elements that made the tv show great. Hell, I'm just thankful Mann took it on and played it straight instead of it being turned into a Starsky & Hutch buddy comedy. Mann does the best he can, but when you've made the masterpiece that Heat is, it's hard to match that level of cop/criminal level again.