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Antoine Fuqua’s Scar­face remake is not dead yet

28 Feb 2018

Words by Naomi Wong

A man in a black suit holding a gun, with a stern expression on his face.
A man in a black suit holding a gun, with a stern expression on his face.
The direc­tor of Train­ing Day and The Equalis­er is back in the run­ning to update the Bri­an De Pal­ma classic.

Antoine Fuqua, the Amer­i­can film­mak­er behind Train­ing Day, The Equal­iz­er and The Mag­nif­i­cent Sev­en, is report­ed­ly set to remake Bri­an De Palma’s Scar­face, 35 years after its ini­tial release. Accord­ing to Dead­line, Fuqua is back in talks with Uni­ver­sal Pic­tures after Sui­cide Squad and Bright direc­tor David Ayer part­ed ways due to sched­ul­ing con­flicts. Fuqua was ini­tial­ly attached to the project back in 2016 before turn­ing his atten­tions to The Equal­iz­er 2, which arrives in cin­e­mas this summer.

Scar­face has been stuck in devel­op­ment hell for years, with every­one from David Yates to Pablo Lar­raín hav­ing shown an inter­est in direct­ing. Rogue One and Nar­cos star Diego Luna was ini­tial­ly cir­cling the lead role, but the actor’s sched­ule now appears to clash with the production’s cur­rent timeline.

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This new reimag­in­ing will relo­cate the action from 1980s Mia­mi t0 present-day Los Ange­les, with Tony Montana’s rags-to-rich­es arc once again at the fore. Expect to see plen­ty of guns blaz­ing, men being flung out of heli­copters and coke-fuelled stand offs.

An impres­sive writ­ing team includ­ing the Coen broth­ers, Ayer and Straight Out­ta Comp­ton​’s Jonathan Her­man is respon­si­ble for the most recent draft of the script. With Fuqua seem­ing­ly on board, we wouldn’t be sur­prised to see his long­time col­lab­o­ra­tor Den­zel Wash­ing­ton land a key part.

Of course, it will be almost impos­si­ble for any­one to top Al Pacino’s icon­ic per­for­mance in the lead role. Who would you like to see play Tony Mon­tana? Let us know what you think @LWLies

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