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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
It's not "Stubbs," it's "Tubbs." Either way, it won't be the same. Tubbs was an eighties-smooth and cool sidekick. Jamie Foxx will try to update him making him cool and funny. If they're trying to update the franchise, that might work. But you have to remove the camp value a Phillip Michael Thomas impression would bring. Without that and the ridiculousness of Don Johnson's Crockett, all you have is another buddy cop flick.
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And you might not even get that. Shop talk suggest that Miami Vice isn't even out of production yet, and it's already
circling the drain.
- * The movie was supposed to shoot for three months, but is now six months over schedule — with no end in sight.
* According to a well-informed source, "Miami Vice" was "greenlit at $120 million, but the budget has been blown and it is now costing upwards of $180 million. And they aren't even done yet. It will likely be a $200 million tab by the end of shooting."
* Adding to the budget problems, filming has to be moved from Miami to Peru because of Hurricane Wilma damage.
* The script is "not good," according to several people who have read it. "This will bomb," said one.
* Stars Jamie Foxx and Colin Farrell have become slightly bloated, with Farrell sporting "beer boobs" due to their constant partying in Miami. Farrell, in particular, has been carousing at almost every hotel bar and club in town, at times drinking VOX vodka straight from the bottle.
bnb, it's time to make a little drive and knock some sense into this boy. Man-boobs are one thing, but drinking from the bottle? It's this kind of behavior that leads you from
S.W.A.T. all the way down to
Kicking and Screaming 2.
