SAY HELLO TO THE BAD GUY
Posted: 121216

Boardwalk Empire’s Terence Winter is the latest writer to work on the new remake of Scarface. The 1932 film was remade by Brian De Palma in 1983. In this version the film will follow a Mexican and be set in Los Angeles. The director of the film will be Magnificent Seven’s Antoine Fuqua and he says: Scarface is one of those properties that people are more open to the idea of a remake because it is built on a basic premise – the rise and fall of an immigrant who becomes a dangerous criminal kingpin – which can yield very different results depending upon the time and setting.” The Howard Hawks’ version followed an Italian mobster and gun running in Chicago. Brian De Palma’s version dealt with a Cuban immigrant’s takeover of the Miami drug trade. Fuqua says the new character is an unstable guy disenfranchised and disrespected by a system that hates him.