Why Austin Butler Cannot Drive the Iconic Black Ferrari in Miami Vice '85
New videos from the set of Miami Vice ‘85 reveal Austin Butler’s Sonny Crockett and Michael B. Jordan's Ricardo Tubbs driving a white Ferrari Testarossa, the wrong car for the period of the TV series that director Joseph Kosinski’s film is retelling. And there’s likely a legal reason for that.
In the first two seasons of the 1980s TV series, Don Johnson’s detective Sonny Crockett drove a black 1972 Ferrari Daytona Spyder convertible before it was blown up by a Stinger missile in the Season 3 premiere. (Cue the gaping Crockett meme.)
In the show’s canon, Crockett’s cars were seized assets from criminals and loaned to him by the Miami-Dade Police Department as part of his undercover identity. The department supplied Crockett with a white 1986 Ferrari Testarossa in the second episode of Season 3.
🚨| Austin Butler and Michael B. Jordan back on the streets of Brooklyn filming ‘Miami Vice ‘85’ 🎬🌴
Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs, the city …
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