“Universal Pictures is developing a new version of Scarface, the title first released in 1932 and then turned into the iconic 1983 film that starred Al Pacino as Cuban gangster Tony Montana. I’d heard that the studio has been meeting writers to script a take for a film that will be produced by Marc Shmuger and Martin Bregman. Bregman produced the Pacino version.
“The film is not intended to be a remake or a sequel. It will take the common elements of the first two films: an outsider, an immigrant, barges his way into the criminal establishment in pursuit of a twisted version of the American dream, becoming a kingpin through a campaign of ruthlessness and violent ambition. The studio is keeping the specifics of where the new Tony character comes from under wraps at the moment, but ethnicity and geography were important in the first two versions.”
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#WHEW I Thought It Was Gon’ Be A Remake Meanwhile Is This Anything New They Make Those Movies All The Time But None Have Done It Like Scarface
There really are no sacred cows in Hollywood – not when there’s a few pennies to be milked from an idea…it’s all so totally creatively bankrupt, just cannibalising every idea that’s ever been proven to earn a few quid.
and seriously, I know Scarface has always had a cult following but that film would not have the kind of popularity that it enjoys today without rappers banging on about it in every other rhyme as if it was the only movie they’d ever seen. Big Pun’s family (for example) should be getting royalties if this idea goes ahead, no amount of money they might spend promoting this crap would surpass the amount of promotion Pun gave Scarface through his lyrics…
get Scorsese and I might check it out. this has a 98% chance of being wack though.
Leave it alone I say…
fock dat.
leave the classics alone… word to otis…
Meh, I always thought Scarface was slow and boring. No, I don’t hate long movies, Children of Paradise (France, 1945, 3 hours long) is one of my favorite movies. Just didn’t care much for Scarface..had a couple good/great scenes, but yeah. No care if this gets remade or not.
No…
Far too soon, but their pockets need the money now
Scarface was remade already. They Called it the Social Network
For years, me & my folk always discussed this. We knew it was only a matter of time before Hollywood shit on this flick. They been butchering all the classics.
*cough* Shottas!
a reinterpretation is not out of the question. 83 was great because the 32 script was great. oliver stone basically changed the script like a madlib. the right mix of actors, and a b+ director, and it should be fine. the formula works.
I BET THEYRE JUST GONNA REMAKE “UN PROPHETE”
name it something else
my first thoughts were “no” and “why?”
although the title is misleading if they’re stating that it’s ‘not intended to be a remake or sequel’….
has hollywood run out of ideas???
Um, it’ll basically be Grand Theft Auto 4.
this has a 98% chance of being wack though.
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Indeed.
So basically the “Scarface” part is a promotional tool. If it’s not going to be about the same story line or character but just the rags to riches premise then the whole point is to have us be outraged and what to go see it even though we know it won’t hold up to the 80′s version…
Well I won’t play ball… you whores.
The 1980′s version is the same kind of “interpretation” of the 1930′s version that this new version plans to be. So chill, it might actually be good…
^^undercover Universal Pictures exec^^
@david UN PROPHETE was the best film of 2009. it should have been in the running for best picture, not best foreign film.
Leave the movie alone its great as it is
Sounds like what every rapper is trying to live like! Classic should not be remade or emulated….Like carlito’s way, the prequal was doo doo!!
Co-signing Forest Ill.