As a matter of fact, "Miami Vice" is getting a reboot. Or, at least, it might be.

Action star Vin Diesel announced in August 2017 that he was planning a reboot of the series (presumably so he could star in it), working with writer Chris Morgan, with whom he previously worked on several Fast and the Furious movies (and those films definitely owe a debt to the fast-car worship of "Miami Vice").

The news made a big splash at the time, when, as you say, everybody was rebooting everything, but not a word has been heard since.

This suggests the project is at least on hold -- at the time, Diesel said he was planning it for the 2018-19 season, and that obviously hasn't happened. Currently, Diesel's busy filming another big-screen project -- the comic book adaptation "Bloodshot."

Speaking of comics, if you're really hankering for an updated "Vice," that might be your route. In 2015, Lion Forge Comics and IDW Publishing did a comic book miniseries titled "Miami Vice Remix," which saw Crockett and Tubbs ride their sportscar again, tackling a massive Miami underworld conspiracy to flood the streets with a drug that turns people into something like zombies (a nice reference to a popular episode in the original series). 

Or you could look to the big-screen "Miami Vice" film released in 2006, which could have potentially spawned a film franchise, had it not bombed so badly (earning just $100 million on a whopping $135-million budget).

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