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they had my curiosity now they have my attentionScarface Remake Gets a Release Date & Coen Brothers Rewrite
You could make the argument that there is not a more iconic ’80s character than Al Pacino’s Tony Montana, the cocaine-peddling (and sometimes, snorting) protagonist of Brian De Palma’s legendarily over-the-top gangster epic Scarface. Poster-hanging college students and professional basketball players will certainly not give you much of a fight over that one. Pacino’s performance as Montana is so crazily memorable that you could argue the character should never be attempted by another actor ever again.
Because we live in a time where movie studios are looking for any and every old property they can bring back, the prospects of Scarface returning to the screen always seemed good. Not only is a Scarface remake coming to movie theaters, we now know when it will hit the scene.
Universal Pictures has announced that their long-percolating remake of Scarface is set to be released on Friday, August 10th, 2018, a release date that was previously connected to an “Untitled Event Film”. The script has been “polished” by the Oscar-winning Coen Brothers, who made their own previous foray into gangster territory with 1990’s Miller’s Crossing. Marc Shmuger (Lucy), Scott Stuber (Ted) and Dylan Clark (Planet of the Apes) are producing for Bluegrass Films and Global Produce, with 1983 Scarface producer Martin Bregman also onboard.
