The Hollywood Remake
Watching this documentary I couldn't help but think how this is ripe for a killer slick Hollywood Remake, the kind Miami Vice should've been, but failed miserably.
Its funny how Hollywood loves to make their movies about the Italian gangsters who only moved a fraction of this back in the day, but these Colombians are moving weight that hasnt been seen past or present up until these Mexican cartels started taking over the past few years. I could see a movie about Rivi and his path up there to her.
shareA Rivi hitman movie would be great,
or Criselda Blanco as a "female Scarface" would also be a great flick.
I think Michael Mann made a mistake by setting Miami Vice 2006 in the present. He should have made a 1981 "Miami Vice" period piece with different detectives, and a Jan Hammer score. Miami Vice was still my favorite movie of 2006 though.
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YES!
Espadrilles, Summer jackets, pink shirts, The original Phil Collins Song (not the butchered re-do), shot like "Heat" which is a modern day classic - that would make a great flick.
...It would be the most violent movie ever made, original score by Jan Hammer, mixed soundtrack of jazz, Depeche Mode, Phil Collins, Latin music, classic rock. Add in a real tripped out cast with people like David Bowie, Benecio Del Toro, Christopher Walken, Willem Dafoe, Salma Hayek, Mickey Rourke, Robert Downey Jr., Tom Sizemore and Tim Roth would be the detectives.
Don't get me wrong, I liked the movie we got, but lets face it-the 80's cannot be replaced. The 1980's was the coolest decade in man's history, it can't be duplicated. Music that came out then still sounds hipper and fresher than what we get now. People were smarter, braver, bolder, and better looking also. It is the one decade that will never age. In a hundred years, there will still be "1980's night" at clubs and on radio stations, mark my words.
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Specific to Cocaine Cowboys you would have to have a lot of cubans and colombians so I'd just cast people like (yes, I know some are not cubans and columbians) - gael garcia bernal, diego luna, benecio, salma and her buddy penelope even though she was already in "blow", freddy rodriguez (very underrated), etc... Casting actors with known substance abuse problems like Downey and Sizemore may just be a stroke of genius.
It would have to be late 70's, early 80's setting - big permy hair, butterfly collars, The Brady Bunch should be playing on UHF/VHF televisions, Afro-Cuban Jazz, Celia Cruz, Machito. Lift the whole soundtrack from the video game Grand Theft Auto Vice City which recreates that world very very well...
Any one of these directors would do - Billy Corben, Michael Mann (circa "heat" or "band of the hand"), Scorsese, De Palma, Paul Thomas Anderson, maybe Alfonso Cuaron, maybe not Innaritu, probably not Del Toro, etc...
No, it would have to be Michael Mann, and set in 1981, after the boatlift. You would only need a few latino actors to play the bosses, maybe a few soldiers and molls. The only other director I would accept is Abel Ferrera. Robert Downey Jr. would play a CI or something. I seriously believe Downey is the greatest American actor, ever, but he may not be dark enough for a film like this. No wait, he would play a guy who was normal with a family in the suburbs and got hooked on blow and his whole life starts falling apart....kind of reprisal of his Less Than Zero role...
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Michael Mann already did a crime drama circa 1981, it was called "Thief" with Jimmy Caan. Maybe a revisit would be good.
Hitman Rivi - Vincent Gallo - the actor is already flippin' crazy and can come off as latino.
Criselda Blanco - Salma Hayek gaining 30 lbs. Her weight gain would make her insecure and crazy, much like Criselda. The performance will be organic.
Downey would be good as a cocaine snorting cop, his performance will also be oscar worthy organic.
Why doesn't this movie already exist with sequels???
Yeah I have Thief. Tom Sizemore would be Jon Roberts.
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Forgive me, but what is this unspeakable Mann-crush (pun alert!) you have on Mr. Michael, the director.
I checked your profile and was looking for some "pithy little factoid to use against you" but can only come up with that.
Heat is easily a top ten all time in the crime drama genre. Miami Vice 06, however, was a still-born.
Tom Sizemore I have much respect for as an actor, I will always remember that little dip of his head in that cafe when they were knocking Waingro around in Heat.
But the Jon Roberts character would have to be played by a sympathetic character with dubious morality. I don't know if "sympathetic" is something he could pull off, especially after he's dated Heidi Fleiss and did that porno.
Ryan Gosling just got nominated for a role just like that (check Half Nelson).
Willem Dafoe is great, but he hasn't been in anything worth mentioning since "To Live And Die In LA", some 20 years ago. Maybe he could play Mick Munday, the helicopter courier.
Willem Dafoe was good as John Carpenter in Auto Focus. People like to beat up on Miami Vice, I thought it was better than Collateral. It needed to be set in the 80's.
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I have to rewatch Collateral, I don't remember that movie. I just remember being sorely disappointed by Miami Vice. Even Band of the Hand was better than MV06.
Nothing you say will change my mind now that I know you have a biased Mann-Crush.