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"Miami Vice" Shooting
Time to put Crockett and Tubbs on the case.
Police in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, are investigating a shooting that occurred near the film set of the movie version of Miami Vice.
The cop thriller, based on the pastel-loving 1980s small-screen hit for NBC and starringColin Farrell and Jamie Foxx in the roles made famous by Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas, was filming on the third floor of the Plaza Maria de Toledo hotel in Santo Domingo's colonial district Monday night when the shooting took place.
According to a statement by Universal Pictures, a man approached a soldier standing guard outside. An altercation ensued, and the man--who was later identified as Mario Torres--allegedly pulled out a gun and started shooting. The soldier/security guard dodged the bullets and returned fire, hitting Torres once in the side.
No word on Torres' condition or what the dispute was about. None of the cast and crew was hurt.
"An investigation by Santo Domingo authorities is under way regarding the incident, and the production is cooperating with this investigation," the studio said in a statement.
Nobody's asking, but it smells like a Calderon job to us.
In any case, filming resumed without a hitch the following day.
The original Miami Vice, which Michael Mann created and executive produced, was one of the most popular police dramas in tube history and became part of the zeitgeist thanks to its chart-topping soundtrack (courtesy of Jan Hammer), influential duds, cool guest shots (including star turns by musicians Phil Collins, Sheena Easton and Glenn Frey) and MTV-style action sequences.
It followed two tough Vice squad detectives--sockless, perpetually unshaven, alligator-owning James "Sonny" Crockett (Johnson) and suave, New York transplant Ricardo "Rico" Tubbs (Thomas)--as they went undercover and hunted down Florida's most notorious drug kingpins and other baddies.
The series, which paved the way for such sophisticated cop fare like CSI and Law & Order (L&O mastermind Dick Wolf executive produced the show during its last season), was eventually axed as Crockett's Ferrari was blown up, the '80s became the '90s, pastels gave way to grunge, and the audience moved on.
Mann decided to reinvent Crockett and Tubbs for the big screen. His Miami Vice movie, which he wrote and is directing, reportedly has little in common with the TV show, save the characters and the fact that it's a crime story set in Miami.
The film, which has been also been shooting in Miami, Colombia, Cuba, Paraguay, Haiti and Brazil, is slated for a July 2006 release.
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