Farrell insists Miami Vice will be serious

The movie remake Miami Vice will be a modern adaptation and not a parody of the 1980s cop show, according to star Colin Farrell.

Farrell and Jamie Foxx have signed to star as Detective James 'Sonny' Crockett and Detective Ricardo Tubbs in the Michael Mann directed film, which is due to hit cinemas in 2006.

Fans of the original show feared the remake would be in the same style as the recent Starksy and Hutch movie, and play up to 1980s stereotypes.

But the Irish actor promises, "Michael Mann wrote a great script. It's not tongue-in-cheek, it's not 80s. It'll be a different period, a different sensibility."