‘Miami Vice’ Squad Books Gong Li as Love Interest
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – Chinese-born actress Gong Li has joined the cast of Michael Mann’s big-screen update on the 1980s TV crime drama “Miami Vice” for Universal Pictures.
Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx star, respectively, as Detectives Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs in the film being adapted from the hit NBC series. Mann, who executive-produced the TV show, is writing, directing and producing the feature.
The actress will play Isabella, the Chinese-Cuban wife of the leader of a transnational crime syndicate and Crockett’s love interest.
“Vice” is set for a July 28, 2006, release.
Li, whose credits include “Raise the Red Lantern” and “Farewell My Concubine,” appears in the upcoming films “2046,” “Eros” and “Memoirs of a Geisha.”
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