Yes, that’s right- they’re gonna make a new Scarface! Deadline reports that Universal is developing a new film produced by Marc Shmuger and Martin Bregman (Bregman produced the 1983 version). It will be neither a remake nor a sequel, but an amalgamation of the two. I knew I had Steven Bauer on the brain (from this week’s sublime episode of Breaking Bad) for a reason.
Well, this took long enough. There was a videogame several years ago, and it wasn’t incredibly well-received but it was at least the only hint of trying to cash in on the massive staying power of this film. You would have thought remake-or-revisit hungry Hollywood would have set out to do this awhile ago. And while the 1983 version was also apparently considered sacrilegious to even attempt compared to the 1932 Howard Hawks original, Hollywood is a lot worse now than it was 27 years ago and it’s even more typical nowadays.
The first film was Italian-centric; the second film was Cuban-centric; what ethnicity is gonna fall after the roll of the dice this time?
Prediction: rappers everywhere will campaign to star in it.
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I’ve been afraid of this day. Surprised it took this long…
Omar/Chalky White for the win. He was born for the role.
There’s a clever “At first they came for… when they came for me there was no one left…” paraphrasing here but I’m lacking way too much cold medication to make it. And way too unmedicated to first mention that I am an unrelenting remake/reboot/reimagineering apologist, thereby giving the first sentence a small chance of making any sense to the eight people who read these responses. The Thing and Scarface, while remakes themselves and hardly perfect films, are untouchable in my opinion. They each took the zeitgeist of an era and translated it to a genre film that became not only iconic but eminently watchable for the masses for generations to come – that’s quite an accomplishment. Despite the relatively recent rash of admittedly sub-par if not downright awful re-whatevers, I don’t think any of them really sullied the memory of the originals the way that these two releases will.
P.S. Yes, Mr. Montana, I do like that.
To be honest, the videogame was quite good fun- actually had an overall game mechanic I wish GTA VC had.
This remake idea, on the other hand, is dripping with ass. But the only surprise is indeed that it took this long.
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Wasn’t there also a horrible prequal to Scarface with P-Diddy?
That was Carlito’s Way: Rise to Power. That was bollocks.
I’m with Black_Dahlia on this. I love Scarface, I know it’s not perfect, but I don’t care. It’s untouchable.
So not a remake or sequel, but an amalgamation? So the same basic plot but with different characters or a different plot with the same characters (many of which died)? Does Tony Montana travel into an alternate dimension for a cameo with different much younger actors imitating the original actors (neatly bypassing the need for continuity)? Will Steven Bauer be reprising his role of A Manny Called Horse?
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