Call Me By Your Name Oscar nominee Luca Guadagnino has become the latest director tapped to helm Universal Pictures’ Scarface reboot.
The project has been in development at the studio for quite some time now, going back as far as 2011. Previous directors attached to the project include David Ayer and Antoine Fuqua but they have come and gone due to various scheduling conflicts and development issues. The new take on Scarface will be set in Los Angeles and the film’s shooting script will be off of Joel Coen and Ethan Coen’s version, who has been with the project for at least three years now.
Scarface was first released in 1932 by United Artists while the more iconic Universal release came in 1983 and was directed by Brian De Palma starring Al Pacino as Cuban gangster Tony Montana. In the 1932 Scarface, an Italian (Paul Muni) took over Chicago, and in the De Palma remake, Montana cornered the cocaine trade in 1980s Miami, only to be consumed by it.
Luca Guadagnino has a bit of a busy slate lined up for himself. He’s also attached to make a sequel to Call Me By Your Name, entitled Find Me, with the film’s original stars Timothée Chalamet, Armie Hammer & Michael Stuhlbarg returning. The director is also developing a remake of Lord of the Flies at Warner Bros while he’s producing the upcoming Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw documentary The Truffle Hunters.
