May 14, 2020 at 08:43PM
Say hello to a (new) little friend: A Scarface reboot is in the works, courtesy of Call Me By Your Name director Luca Guadagnino. Deadline reports that the Oscar nominee is the latest filmmaker attached to the Universal project, following the likes of David Ayer (Suicide Squad) and Antoine Fuqua (Southpaw).
Guadagnino will helm the film from a script by Joel and Ethan Coen (No Country for Old Men), who have been involved with the movie for at least three years, Deadline reports. Their association comes after previous drafts of a rebooted script came from Gareth Dunnet-Alcocer, Jonathan Herman, and Paul Attanasio.
This will be the third major iteration of Scarface. It follows Howard Hawks’ 1932 version set in Chicago and Brian De Palma’s 1983 classic, which starred Al Pacino and Michelle Pfeiffer as players in the Miami cocaine ring. The new film will take place in Los Angeles and “be a reimagining of the original immigrant narrative established in both those films,” per Variety.
This isn’t the first time Guadagnino waded into the reboot waters. He remade the 1977 horror film Suspiria in 2018 with Dakota Johnson and Tilda Swinton. In addition to Scarface, he’s got a few other projects in the works: the HBO limited series starring Alice Braga and Kid Cudi, We Are Who We Are, and a Lord of the Flies remake. Then there’s Find Me, the highly-anticipated sequel to Call Me By Your Name—his award-winning romantic drama starring Timothée Chalamet and Armie Hammer.
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Scarface will be produced by Dylan Clark via Dylan Clark Productions, SVP Brian Williams, Scott Stuber, and Marco Marabito. Universal SVP of Production Jay Polidoro and Director of Development Lexi Barta will oversee the Universal film. No release date or further casting details have been reported.
Until then, catch up on the originals:
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