The Miami Vice movie is ready to heat up the screens, but missing in action is the television show’s trademark theme, by synth guru Jan Hammer. Hammer’s iconic theme for the show was a pioneering use of synths in television scores and was a rare #1 instrumental hit, too.
Apparently director Michael Mann didn’t want to use the theme in the movie. Hammer, however, has released an updated version of the theme on his own indie label with manager Elliott Sears, and it is the most-added record on adult contemporary radio for the last three weeks.
But when it came time to record a score for the “Miami Vice” movie, Mann went for current artists rather than Hammer and other musicians that were featured on the original show. Two tracks are by Moby (one features Patti LaBelle), and the rest are all by unknowns.
The movie, directed by Mann, stars Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx as Crockett and Tubbs, originally played by Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas.
According to Sears, Mann didn’t want any association with the TV series.
Sears has said that the studio was forwarded “thousands” of e-mails from “Miami Vice” fans begging the director to stick with the original.
“Universal told him, you’ve got to use the theme even if someone else records it,” Sears said, “but he said no.”
“What’s happening is everyone realizes too late that there’s no association between the movie and the show,” Sears said. “They’re trying at the last minute to make a connection.”
Sears and Hammer are about to release another updated version of a popular track of theirs from the TV series, “Crockett’s Theme,” on Aug. 11.
The Miami Vice theme is discusssed in the Jan Hammer interview at Synthtopia.
via FOXNews.com
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