Whitney Peak has landed the female lead in Miami Vice ’85, joining Michael B. Jordan and Austin Butler in the upcoming reboot.
According to Deadline, the 23-year-old actress will portray the love interest of Detective Rico Tubbs, the undercover cop played by 39-year-old Jordan. Butler will star as James “Sonny” Crockett, completing the legendary detective duo. Philip Michael Thomas and Don Johnson originally portrayed the characters in the NBC crime drama, which ran for five seasons from 1984 to 1989.
Multiple actresses auditioned for the role, with the final chemistry tests alongside Jordan reportedly taking place last month. While details about Peak’s character have yet to be officially confirmed, she is reportedly expected to play Tubbs’ romantic interest. The most recent Miami Vice remake arrived in 2026 and featured Jamie Foxx and Colin Farrell.
The Ugandan-Canadian actress rose to prominence through the Gossip Girl reboot and Hocus Pocus 2, while also appearing in recurring roles on Chilling Adventures of Sabrina and Home Before Dark. Her most recent notable appearance came in Netflix’s action film Thrash. Peak is set to appear as Lenore Dove in The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping, which is scheduled for worldwide release November 20. She is also attached to star in Amazon/MGM’s 4 Kids Walk Into A Bank.
Jordan, who picked up his first Academy Award earlier this year for Sinners, is preparing to promote his upcoming heist movie, The Thomas Crown Affair. Jordan stars in, directs, and produces the film. Taylor Russell was initially attached to co-star alongside him before being replaced by Adria Arjona over reported “creative differences.”
Miami Vice ’85 takes inspiration from the pilot episode of the original Universal Television series created by Anthony Yerkovich, who also executive produced the show alongside Michael Mann. The upcoming film will delve into the glitz, excess, and corruption of Miami during the mid-1980s, with Dan Gilroy writing the screenplay based on an earlier draft by Eric Warren Singer. Dylan Clark and director Joseph Kosinski are set to produce the project.
