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According to VarietyOpens in a new tab, Call Me By Your Name director Luca Guadagnino will helm a reboot of the 1983 crime drama Scarface for Universal Pictures. Oh, but that’s not all. The screenplay for the reboot was penned by a few names you might recognize: Joel and Ethan Coen.
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That’s right, a new film version of Scarface is coming from Guadagnino and the Coen brothers. I can’t pretend to know your personal taste in cinema, but this sounds pretty incredible to me. To put it into some context, a lot of people turned their noses up at the idea of Guadagnino directing a Suspiria remakeOpens in a new tab, and that film turned out to be a modern horror masterpiece. The guy knows what he’s doing.
Dylan Clark will produce the new Scarface for his company, Dylan Clark Productions. Gareth Dunnet-Alcocer, Jonathan Herman, and Paul Attanasio penned earlier drafts of the script.
If you’re somehow unfamiliar, the 1983 film is itself a remake of a 1932 film of the same nameOpens in a new tab. The story revolves around a Cuban refugee named Tony Montana (played to perfection by Al Pacino in the 1983 film) who arrives in Miami and becomes a power drug lord. Audiences panned that Brian De Palma film upon initial release, but they reappraised it in the years since.
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Topics like immigration could lend well to a remake. We’re also super curious to see what Guadagnino will bring to the table. The talented director is currently working on a sequel to Call Me By Your NameOpens in a new tab, a film adaptation of Lord of the FliesOpens in a new tab, and an upcoming HBO limited seriesOpens in a new tab. Likewise, we can’t even begin to imagine the violence and chaos the Coens will infuse into the script. This really feels like a match made in cinephile heaven, and we cannot wait to see what magic they brew together.
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