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SCARFACE: Universal’s Epic Crime Reimagining Lands A Director

Five years after a seemingly unending development process, Universal’s long-brewing Scarface remaining finally has a director in Luca Guadagnino (Call Me By Your Name, Suspira). The new film marks the latest incarnation of the core immigrant story of Scarface which Variety‘s Justin Kroll elucidates will be a “reimagining”; Howard Hawks and Richard Rosson directed the 1932 pic long prior to Brian DePalma etching violent crime cinema history with his own 1983 opus starring Al Pacino. Attempts at a sequel and a remake have been well underway since 2001 with little progress on nabbing a director, and with Jonathan Herman penning a draft along with other writers in the project’s extenuating developmental history. The reigns were since handed to Joel and Ethan Coen (The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs, The Jesus Rolls) whose script will serve as the basis for the pic. Guadagnino is one of a handful of directors whose names […]

Brian De Palma’s SCARFACE To Celebrate 35 Years Of Saying Hello To His Little Friend In Select Cities Next Month!

Lee B. Golden III

Apart from any and all progress with Universal Pictures’s treatment of the 1983 hit pic, Scarface, attendees at last month’s 17th Tribeca Film Festival were able to catch an exclusive screening of Brian De Palma’s classic crime drama, as well as a post-screening panel with the director and select stars Al Pacino, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Steven Bauer to celebrate the film’s 35th anniversary. Going forward, if you weren’t able to attend to even so much as see the film on the big screen then don’t fret. The Tribeca Film Festival pushed a new announcement on Monday going forward, signaling a new endeavor with a delightful first for the festival itself, teaming up with Universal Pictures and Screenvision Media to showcase both the film and the discussion in select cities and theaters next month throughout North America. Ticket pre-orders are now available by clicking here. Read onward and get yours today! […]

Universal’s SCARFACE Lands A Release Date, MacKenzie And Berg Being Circled To Helm

Lee B. Golden III

With Rogue One: A Star Wars Story co-star Diego Luna officially starring in Universal Pictures’s upcoming Scarface reboot, it’s been a day of brewing developments. The film had been in search for a director since Antoine Fuqua left the film in late January to focus his attention on The Equalizer sequel and now there has been movement on multiple fronts. According to THR, No Country For Old Men directing duo Joel and Ethan Coen have polished the script for a reboot inspired by the 1983 Brian De Palma classic, now focusing on a modern tale of the rise and fall of an ambitious Latino gangster in Los Angeles. Moreover, Hell Or High Water director David MacKenzie and Battleship and Deepwater Horizon helmer Peter Berg are both circling the director’s chair for the film’s newly set date for August 10, 2018. The word is that it was MacKenzie who was initially […]

Will Diego Luna Play SCARFACE For Universal?

Lee B. Golden III

Disney and Lucasfilm’s Rogue One: A Star Wars Story just made Forbes’s list as second highest grosser of 2016 earning $1.033 billion dollars globally. It’s good news for Diego Luna who first landed on our radar many years ago as a flourishing Mexican TV and film actor, notably landing on a bigger stage in Alfonso Cuarón’s critically acclaimed coming of age drama, Y Tu Mamá También. Nowadays moviegoers can expect to catch the Elysium and Blood Father co-star in upcoming thrillers like Niels Arden Oplev’s Flatliners remake for Screen Gems this September as well as Ana Lily Amirpour’s Venice Film Fest Special Jury Prize Winning movie, The Bad Batch. Moreover, it also appears that Luna’s name is now being mentioned for the title role of the forthcoming readaptation of the gangster crime drama classic, Scarface for Universal Pictures. After Jonathan Herman, Boardwalk Empire series creator Terence Winter last provided a […]

Universal's SCARFACE Seeks Antoine Fuqua To Direct

Lee B. Golden III

Director Antoine Fuqua is getting a terrific start to his Fall this year. His newest remade Western spectacle, The Magnificent Seven, set to open this year’s Toronto International Film Festival on September 8 before opening wide just a few weeks later, and in the wake of already earning his approval among the remake crowd for his take on the 2014 revenge/redemption actioner, The Equalizer. That said, we now bring our attention to Brian DePalma’s own remade hit gangster opus for Universal Pictures, Scarface, which became an instant classic since its release in 1983 with respect to the 1932 original from Howard Hawks and Richard Rosson. Here with actresses Michelle Pfeiffer and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio and actor Stephen Bauer, it was Al Pacino who stole the show with his visceral and iconic portrayal of Tony Montana, a Cuban political refugee whose ruthless race to achieve the American dream within Florida’s criminal […]