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The 1983 is a Classic
Quality film.
To follow that will not be easy



[Call Me By My Name director Luca Guadagnino
is to take on the long-gestating
new version of classic gangster film Scarface.

According to Variety, Guadagnino is the
latest director installed on a project that
goes back to at least 2011.
There are two previous versions: the 1932 original
starring Paul Muni and directed by Howard Hawks,
and the 1983 reworking with Al Pacino and
directed by Brian De Palma.

The new production has a choppy history.
Martin Bregman, who produced the De Palma film,
was named as a producer,
with Harry Potter’s David Yates lined up
to direct a script by David Ayer.
In 2014 it was reported that Pablo Larrain,
the Chilean director of No, The Club and Jackie,
was set to take over directing duties,
with a script from
Homicide: Life on the Street’s Paul Attanasio that
focused on “a Mexican hustler in Los Angeles”.
Subsequent reports suggested
that Antoine Fuqua (Training Day) had at one point
been set to direct, and after Fuqua left the project,
a script by the Coen brothers was about
to be filmed with Diego Luna in the lead role.

The Variety report says Guadagnino will be
working from the Coens’ script,
with The Batman’s Dylan Clark on board as producer.
(Bregman died in 2018.)

Guadagnino was Oscar-nominated for
best picture for Call Me By Your Name,
the Italian-set romance starring Timothée Chalamet
and Armie Hammer, and has since
completed a remake of the
Dario Argento horror film Suspiria,
with Dakota Johnson and Tilda Swinton.]


https://www.theguardian.com/film/202...rothers-script

[LaLaLand]

I'm in two minds tbh.

As much as I LOVE Brian De Palma's iconic version and even though that's a remake in itself it's kind of "holy grail gangster movie", I'm interested to see the combo of Luca and Coen Bros with this.

Interested to see what setting The Coen's choose to go with, doubtful it will be 1980's Miami again (which is what I love most about De Palma's version honestly, such a brilliant setting). Perhaps they'll go back to prohibition/Capone-era Chicago like the original.