Miami Vice

In 2006 Mann resurrected Miami Vice for the big screen. Starring Jamie Foxx as Tubbs and Colin Farrell as Crockett, the film adaptation steered away from the pastel colors and high-fashion style that made the TV show famous. Instead, Mann presented a darker version…

…directed a film version of Miami Vice (2006) starring Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx. He was also the executive producer of Crime Story (1986–88), a noir drama set in the early 1960s that used a serialized, rather than episodic, format.

…head during the filming of Miami Vice (2006), director Michael Mann’s big-screen version of his iconic 1980s television series. Farrell plays detective Sonny Crockett opposite Jamie Foxx as his partner, Rico Tubbs, and both the film and the actors’ performances garnered mixed reviews. Farrell later said he could barely remember…

Gong’s other American films included Miami Vice (2006) and Hannibal Rising (2007). In the poorly reviewed noir Shanghai (2010), Gong glittered as a gangster’s girlfriend who falls in love with an American spy (John Cusack). Gong then starred in the romantic comedy Wo zhi nüren xin (2011; I Know a…

…Strangers with Candy (2005) and Miami Vice (2006), both of which were based on TV shows. He also continued to act on television, and in the HBO miniseries John Adams (2008), he portrayed John Hancock.