Mystery/Thriller New 'Scarface' Movie

[Sawyer]

Luca Guadagnino to Direct Universal’s ‘Scarface’ Reboot – Variety

 

[Doctor Jones]

The Coen Brothers wrote the script? Well, **** I'm interested.

 

[OutOfBoose]

"Reboot" sounds so strange when applied to this story.

 

[killface]

With the way Guadagino "remade" Suspiria, i'm sure this one will be way different from the original.

 

[terry78]

The gore will be there of course.

 

[CaptainWagner]

The Coen Brothers wrote the script? Well, **** I'm interested.

I've been deeply concerned about this project ever since the "too dark" report. But Luca and the Coen Brothers.... Well, I guess I'm back on board.

 

[Sawyer]

With the way Guadagino "remade" Suspiria, i'm sure this one will be way different from the original.

Wouldn’t be the first time. DePalma’s is reasonably different from the one in the ‘30s, isn’t it?

 

[Schlosser85]

Wouldn’t be the first time. DePalma’s is reasonably different from the one in the ‘30s, isn’t it?

The one in the ‘30s was loosely based on Al Capone.

 

[Filmfreak]

Suspiria is the reason I'm not at all excited about another Guadagnino remake.

 

[The Shape]

I'll give it a shot. I'm sure it's going to be wildly different from the previous versions of Scarface, so I don't know why they can't just make an original story as opposed to a reboot/remake.

 

[Pennywise]

Luca Guadagnino on Remaking ‘Scarface,’ Nudity, and His HBO Series – Variety

You’re also attached to a remake of “Scarface.” What attracted you to that project?

People claim that I do only remakes [ed. note: Guadagnino previously remade “Suspiria” and his film “A Bigger Splash” was inspired by “La Piscine”] , but the truth of the matter is cinema has been remaking itself throughout its existence. It’s not because it’s a lazy way of not being able to find original stories. It’s alway about looking at what certain stories say about our times. The first “Scarface” from Howard Hawks was all about the prohibition era. Fifty years later, Oliver Stone and Brian De Palma make their version, which is so different from the Hawks film. Both can stand on the shelf as two wonderful pieces of sculpture. Hopefully ours, forty-plus years later, will be another worthy reflection on a character who is a paradigm for our own compulsions for excess and ambition. I think my version will be very timely.

 

[Pennywise]

‘Scarface’ Remake Director Luca Guadagnino Wants a “Big R-Rating” on His "Shocking" Film

Speaking with BadTaste.it at the Venice Film Festival (in Italian and translated to English), Guadagnino said what appeals to him about doing Scarface is the Tony Montana character as an archetype, and as a way to tell a story about the American Dream in the current era, just as Howard Hawks’ 1932 original and Brian De Palma’s 1983 remake were of their time:

“The truth is that I’m interested in the Tony Montana character. He’s a symptom of the American Dream. And I think that these movies are made for their times. My own Scarface will arrive 40 years after the previous one. I think the important thing about these movies is not the fact that they’re lush and fundamental like Brian De Palma’s one. The important thing is knowing that Tony Montana is an archetypal character.”

Guadagnino spoke about the controversial violence in Hawks’ original film, and how its depiction of evil made audiences turn up in droves:

“Remember when [Hawks’ movie] opened, it was accompanied by titles that said, ‘The filmmakers don’t endorse criminal behavior.’ That movie was sensational, hugely popular. Probably more than De Palma’s movie, in proportion. It’s almost 100 years that Tony Montana affects the imagination of the audience, and this happens in part because we are attracted by what is capable of producing evil. And in part because we want to make something bigger than ourselves. It’s about the dream of fulfilling, of success.”

So when telling his own version of this story, Guadagnino laid out three keys to success:

“The important things are A. It has to be well done, the script has to be great – and it is. B. Our Tony Montana has to be current. I don’t want to imitate anything. C. This movie has to be shocking.”

To the latter point, Guadagnino brought up his striking remake of the horror film Suspiria (which is sorely underrated and on Amazon Prime now) and revealed that he intends for his Scarface to be a hard R-rated film:

“I told you about Suspiria and I kept the promise to you then, [and] I think I will surprise you with this movie too. Brian De Palma’s movie was Rated R, so I want a big R on my movie too.”

 

[terry78]

I'm sure he does.

 

[OutOfBoose]

If it's not R, it's an automatic pass from me.

 

[MadVillainy]

It has to be R. No way it wouldn't be.

With stuff like Deadpool, Logan, Joker, IT; I think we've gotten out of that "it needs to be PG13" era.

And for sure they would never make Scarface PG13. I know we rip on Hollywood, but there's no way

 

[Pennywise]

Danny Ramirez & Tom Culliver Tease ‘Scarface’ Ambitions & Raft Of Upcoming Projects Ahead Of Venice Premiere Of Their Pinstripes Banner’s Inaugural Feature ‘Dead Man’s Wire’

Danny Ramirez & Tom Culliver discuss their new Pinstripes banner, their ambition to tackle 'Scarface', and more in an exclusive chat with Deadline.

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DEADLINE: Will you be acquiring IP to develop projects around, alongside your work on originals?

CULLIVER: Funny you should ask. One of the larger pieces of IP that we’re adapting at the minute is Scarface. Obviously, Danny will play Scarface. We want to modernize it, adapting the original novel. [Editor’s Note: Universal Pictures released the most famous Scarface movie — 1983’s from Brian De Palma— and has flirted with reimagining the property, attaching Luca Guadagnino to direct in 2020. But the source material, a 1930 novel by Armitage Trail, is in the public domain.]

We’re independently developing it; we have some development financing in place. Obviously, there’s the Pacino legacy of it from the ’80s and then the original 1932 movie, but I think it’s ripe for modernizing, and to have someone like Danny in the lead is really exciting.