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).
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).
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.
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SCREENVISION MEDIA, UNIVERSAL PICTURES, AND TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCE THEATRE EVENT FOR 35TH ANNIVERSARY OF SCARFACE
The Cult-Classic Will Return to Theatres Nationwide With Special Screening of Tribeca Film Festival Talk Featuring Brian DePalma, Al Pacino, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Steven Bauer
New York, N.Y., May 21, 2018 – Universal Pictures, Screenvision Media, a national leader in cinema advertising, and Tribeca Film Festival, presented by AT&T, announced today the return of Scarface to movie theatres nationwide, in celebration of its 35th anniversary. Additionally, film fans outside of New York will have the chance to participate in a Tribeca Film Festival retrospective event on the big screen for the first time ever. As part of the 35th anniversary celebrations, moviegoers are invited to watch the cult classic film followed by the Tribeca Film Festival post screening conversation, during which Scarface director Brian De Palma, along with actors Al Pacino, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Steven Bauer reunited to discuss the film and its lasting impact. Screenings will take place at select theatres in top cites nationwide such as New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, and Dallas on June 10, 11, and 13.
“Scarface is a timeless film that has influenced pop culture in so many ways over the last 35 years. We’re thrilled to partner with Universal Pictures and Tribeca Film Festival to bring it back to the big screen in celebration of its anniversary,” said Darryl Schaffer, executive vice president of operations and exhibitor relations, Screenvision Media. “The Tribeca Film Festival talk was an important commemoration of the film. We’re excited to extend it to the big screen and provide fans a behind-the-scenes insight into what production was like in the 1980s.”
Brian De Palma’s modernization of Howard Hawks’ 1932 classic Scarface is a somber consideration for the humanizing motives of evil men. The film received three Golden Globe nominations and remains one of the most referenced films in pop culture. Al Pacino helped garner a huge cult following for the film after delivering one of his riskiest performance in this career-defining role.
“Tribeca has a rich history of producing legendary reunion events. We are thrilled to be able to replicate the Festival experience with audiences across the country. Our gratitude to Screenvision and Universal,” said Paula Weinstein, EVP, Tribeca Enterprises. “Scarface has had a strong influence on popular culture and reuniting the cast for the 35th anniversary was an evening not to forget.”
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 passed up on for Fuqua to work on Scarface a year after Berg hired MacKenzie to direct his hit 2016 crime thriller then-titled “Comancheria” for CBS Films. Scarface is a Bluegrass Films and Global Produce production with Marc Shmuger, Scott Stuber, and Dylan Clark producing, as will Martin Bregman who produced the 1983 film.
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 script which the studio still plans to move ahead with this Spring. This comes just as the previously attached Antoine Fuqua departed the project to focus on a sequel to his 2014 hit actioner, The Equalizer with SAG award winning Fences star Denzel Washington reprising; The sequel was confirmed in the summer of 2015 while it was not yet official until last September in the wake of the TIFF premiere of Fuqua’s The Magnificent Seven that the director would, in fact, return to the helm.
Luna’s Scarface is being designed as a remaging of the original 1982 film from Howard Hawks and Richard Rosson and Brian De Palma’s riveting 1983 epic, now with Luna portraying a Mexican immigrant in Los Angeles and, in the vein of the film’s predecessors, our title character’s influential ascension in the world of organized crime. Bluegrass Films and Global Produce are headling the production with Marc Shmuger, Scott Stuber, and Dylan Clark and the De Palma’s Scarface producer, Marty Bregman, producing.
H/T: Variety
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 underworld came with a price ultraviolently paid in a hail of cocaine, bullets and blood.
Attempts at a sequel and a remake have been well underway since 2001 with little progress on nabbing a director while Jonathan Herman updated previous versions of a script from earlier writers. This now brings us to Deadline‘s own breaking news of Fuqua’s own possible movement toward helming the movie for Universal, with a plot that will likely set its similar rags-to-riches story in contemporary Los Angeles.
Further updates await while we’ve yet to know if the Southpaw helmer will take another stab at The Equalizer for its upcoming sequel from Sony. We’ll learn more soon enough, it seems. At any rate, stay tuned for more updates!
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