Article: `Miami Vice' remake swaps pastels for darker tones.

Byline: Hanh Nguyen

LOS ANGELES _ "Miami Vice" wouldn't have happened if it weren't for Jamie Foxx, who hounded director Michael Mann to take the `80s-era TV show he executive-produced and adapt it for the big screen.

"(Michael had) enough of me going up to him and saying, `Look, I really think that this is a great opportunity for you to take a commercial hit, a franchise, and bring the real film capability that Michael Mann has together,'" recalls the Oscar-winning actor. "So, now, we're all protected, in the sense of we're doing a big-time summer movie, but it's still held together by the Michael Mann way of thinking."

That way of thinking ...

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