Vin Diesel's production company One Race Television is reviving the classic 1980s cop TV series Miami Vice for NBC.

Miami Vice: Detectives Sonny Crockett (Don Johnson) and Ricardo Tubbs (Phillip Michael Thomas).

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Diesel's One Race Television will team with Chris Morgan Productions on the project. Diesel and Morgan have collaborated on the Fast and Furious film franchise, which Morgan has scripted six of the franchise's eight entries. Variety reports that "no executive producers have been locked in yet, as deals are still being hammered out. ... Peter Macmanus will write the script, based on the original series. While executive producers haven’t been set, it’s more than likely Macmanus, Morgan, and Diesel will all serve as EPs, along with more staffers from One Race TV."Miami Vice ran from 1984-89 and was a groundbreaking show for its time, marrying the music video aesthetic of the era (the show was famously pitched as "MTV cops") with the gritty, Noir-like feel of Scarface. Michael Mann exec produced the original TV series and later wrote, produced and directed the 2006 movie reboot that starred Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx.Miami Vice followed undercover narcotics detectives James "Sonny" Crockett and Ricardo "Rico" Tubbs as they fought cartels, dealers and crooked cops (and, occasionally, ninja. Because it was the '80s) in style and in fast cars and faster boats. It's not difficult to draw a line directly from Miami Vice to the Fast and Furious franchise.