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Imagine making a movie about Cuban drug kingpins in 1983 and thinking 'hmm, I want someone a bit less weird and conspiracy-theory minded than the guy who did 12 Angry Men and Serpico... I know, I'll get Oliver Stone and Brian de Palma.'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarface_(1983_film)#Development
Also now I finally realise that Miami Vice was Scarface: The TV Series
in the same way that Star Trek was Forbidden Planet: The Series and Doctor Who was The Time Machine: The Series
@natecull We watched "The Cage" the other evening, and the "Forbidden Planet: The Series" bit is even more accurate than I remember. Though it's a nice touch --- maybe an accident, maybe Roddenberry being clever, or maybe Roddenberry trying to be "clever" --- that the part of the plot that looks most directly lifted from Forbidden Planet turns out to be an illusion. The Talosians show the crew what they want to see.
@natecull Also, at times, the film /Manhunter/ (1986), the first adaptation of a Hannibal Lecter novel, feels quite a bit like /Miami Vice: The Movie/.