‘Scarface’ reboot coming from ‘Call Me By Your Name’ director

Say hello to the newest Scarface adaptation. Director Luca Guadagnino has been announced as the filmmaker who will take on the newly updated version of the classic film Scarface, partnering with Oscar-winning writers Ethan and Joel Coen. The latest instalment will be set in Los Angeles and released by Universal Pictures.

A new Scarface has been in development since 2011. Deadline reports that David Ayer (End of Watch, Fury, Suicide Squad) and Antoine Fuqua (The Magnificent Seven, Southpaw, Training Day) were originally attached to direct the film. Early drafts of the screenplay were written by Gareth Dunnet-Alcocer, Jonathan Herman and Paul Attanasio. The Coen brothers, who are best known for writing and directing their own films, including Fargo, The Big Lebowski, No Country for Old Men and most recently, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, joined the project in 2017.

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The first Scarface film debuted in 1932 and was directed by Howard Hawks and produced by Howard Hughes. Based on the 1929 novel by Armitage Trail, the film was loosely inspired by American gangster Al Capone, who was often referred to as Scarface. Set in Chicago, the film was banned in several cities and included a depiction of the 1929 Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre, which include the execution of seven Chicago-based gangsters.

Scarface was brought to the big screen once again in 1983, this time set in Miami. Directed by Brian De Palma and written by Oliver Stone, the film starred Al Pacino as Tony Montano, a Cuban refugee who used violence to rise to the top of the drug cartel in Miami. Michelle Pfeiffer, Steven Bauer, Robert Loggia, F. Murray Abraham and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio also starred in the iconic mobster movie.

Guadagnino’s latest film was 2018’s Suspira, which reunited the director with Tilda Swinton, who starred in his 2015 film A Bigger Splash. Guadagnino made his feature film debut in 2009 with I Am Love, a film festival favourite that earned nominations at the Golden Globes, the Academy Awards and the BAFTAs.

Italian-born director Guadagnino returned to his home country to film the 2017 adaptation of André Aciman’s novel Call Me By Your Name. Starring Timothée Chalamet, Armie Hammer, Michael Stuhlbarg, Amira Casar and Esther Garrel, the coming of age love story set in Northern Italy in the early 1980s received four Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Actor for Chalamet, Best Original Song for Sufjan Steven’s “Mystery of Love” and Best Adapted Screenplay for James Ivory’s work. Guadagnino is set to reunite with Chalamet and Hammer for Find Me, Aciman’s sequel to Call Me By Your Name.

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