Hey, did you hear they’re making a film out of the ‘80s cop present “Miami Vice?”
Once more.
Director Michael Mann’s 2006 model of his TV smash earned a tepid $63 million stateside regardless of starring A-listers Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx. Appears film goers had little curiosity in a present drenched in ‘80s kitsch.
So, let’s attempt it yet another time, the identical pondering that led Disney to lose $100 million-plus on a “Tron” sequel nobody wished. The primary two “Tron” motion pictures underperformed. Three’s the allure, proper?
This “Miami Vice” challenge might have “It” actors Michael B. Jordan and Austin Butler connected to roles that imply nothing to right now’s younger film goers.
Crockett? What’s a Crockett?
It’s exhausting, and the challenge is much from alone.
A brand new movie, “I Play Rocky,” simply began manufacturing. The story follows the inconceivable story of a younger Sylvester Stallone who refused to let anybody play his blue-collar boxer character however him. Spoiler alert! He received that battle and have become an icon.
Hollywood has employed look-alike actors to play youthful variations of Stallone, Carl Weathers and extra.
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— Amazon MGM Studios (@AmazonMGMStudio) October 20, 2025
We’re seeing related casting strikes for the HBO Max “Harry Potter” collection, despite the fact that the seven-film saga darn close to captured J.Ok. Rowling’s imaginative and prescient to perfection.
Recycle!
Every part Previous Is New-ish Once more
Over at Lionsgate, they’ve discovered youthful variations of key characters from the “Starvation Video games” franchise for the following prequel, subtitled, “Dawn on the Reaping.” That features Ralph Fiennes as President Snow, stepping in for Donald Sutherland’s character.
We simply noticed the newest “new” actor play the Man of Metal, despite the fact that the final Superman star, Henry Cavill, is simply 42 and nonetheless completely able to donning the blue tights. Batman can be recast, and recast, earlier than you understand it.
Youthful! Higher! Extra acquainted!
After which there’s “The Karate Child,” a brand new musical based mostly on the 1984 movie of the identical identify that spawned three sequels, a 2010 reboot, a Netflix TV collection and final summer season’s “Karate Child: Legends.”
See a sample? Exhausted by it but? Perhaps. Perhaps not. Right here’s betting Gen Z is.
The place are the brand new tales, the brand new characters who will outline right now’s younger film goers? At this time’s children accept recycled heroes, shadows of what mattered to their mother and father and grandparents.
Allen Covert, a producer of comedies like “Grown Ups” and “Resort Transylvania,” has bemoaned that right now’s kids have no iconic highschool comedies to name their very own.
The issue is far worse, particularly for Hollywood. Teenagers will maintain drifting to social media and video video games, keen to seek out popular culture tales that talk to them, like John Hughes’ movies captured the Gen X mindset.
Is it any marvel that A.I. is all the craze, a recycling vacuum that sucks up content material and refashions it wth ones and zeroes?
Sure, a lot of what’s occurring in Hollywood flows from concern. Why threat telling an authentic story like “Roofman,” “Good Fortune” or “Caught Stealing” (all field workplace disappointments) when you’ll be able to lengthen a franchise, stretch an IP or simply repurpose one thing we’ve already simply seen on the small display screen?
No 2025 comedy can be as hilarious as 2005’s “Wedding ceremony Crashers,” to be re-released this December as a part of a twentieth anniversary celebration. Later that month, the ultimate episode of “Stranger Issues” will hit theaters, a present beloved for recycling ‘80s popular culture tropes, right down to its enigmatic rating.
A Advertising Mission: Unimaginable
Hollywood hopes sufficient advertising and marketing {dollars} will persuade 20-somethings that Crockett and Tubbs are characters they need to get to know. Neither Don Johnson nor Philip Michael Thomas grew to become A-list stars following the unique “Miami Vice” present’s cancellation.
Thomas basically light from Hollywood solely.
There’s nothing notably novel about their cop characters that calls for they be introduced again as soon as extra. We cared about Johnson’s five-o’clock shadow and pastel sports activities jackets greater than Crockett’s cop theatrics.
Ought to “Miami Vice” disappoint on the field workplace, Hollywood will blame streaming, video video games or different pat excuses. The media might circle again to a seven-year-old pandemic as a part of the blame sport.
The business won’t ever look within the mirror, not as soon as, and see the actual drawback.