Brian DePalma’s 1982 version of Scarface was a remake of the 1932 Howard Hawks film, updating the original Italian gangster based on Al Capone to a Cuban drug lord in Miami, to properly reflect the specific ethnic menaces of their respective times. Now Donnie Brasco writer Paul Attanasio is doing another remake for Universal (rewriting an earlier draft by David Ayer), and while the original report said the plot was under wraps, Latino Review quotes a source close to the project saying the new Tony Montana will be Mexican. (*throws out black beans, buys pinto beans*)
[quoting the original Deadline scoop] “Scarface was first done in 1932 and then turned into the iconic 1983 film that starred Al Pacino as Cuban gangster Tony Montana. The film is not intended to be a remake or a sequel. It will take the common elements of the first two films: An outsider, an immigrant, barges his way into the criminal establishment in pursuit of a twisted version of the American dream, becoming a kingpin through a campaign of ruthlessness and violent ambition. The studio is keeping the specifics of where the new Tony character comes from under wraps at the moment, but ethnicity and geography were important in the first two versions.”
Keeping the specifics of where the new Tony character comes from under wraps at the moment? Why so secretive? What is the big deal?
Well, according to sources, we have discovered that the new Tony Montana is actually Mexican and the remake takes place in the world of drug cartels. [LatinoReview]
I’m not convinced the most overrated movie of our times really needs a remake, but if they are going to do it, I’d like to see an extremely outdated and borderline racist caricature of a Mexican out of a Looney Tunes cartoon, where Tony’s big drug dealer chair is now a saguaro cactus, and his big pile of cocaine is an empty tequila bottle, and when the FBI shows up to beat down his door, he just sings a sad ranchero song and falls asleep.
I don’t always love John Mulaney, but his Scarface hate is dead on.
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Emphatically second the notion re: most overrated. The soundtrack is an abomination.
Are you deeming the original soundtrack done by Giorgio Moroder an “abomination”? Because that is so so so wrong.
“an extremely outdated and borderline racist caricature of a Mexican”
You have Pauly’s phone number, right?
Under wraps and secretive won’t keep Trejo off your lawn. Plucky septuagenarian, that one.
The poster doesn’t even need a title, just a picture of Danny Trejo
So what Italian-American will play him this time?
The original has a Jew playing an Italian. The remake has an Italian playing a Cuban. So this one has to have a Cuban playing a Mexican, and the next one has to have a Mexican playing a Jew. SAY SHALOM TO MY LITTLE AMIGO!
+1 Keesey
Black beans > Pinto beans
Get the fuck outta here.
Butterbean > all other beans.
But yeah, black beans are bottom tier for sure. That’s just the way god intended the various bean races to sort themselves out.
Looks like Chris Katan will finally fulfill his dream role
First ju get de churros, den ju get de tequila, den ju take a siesta puto.
Of all the 80′s cocaine movies, Scarface is the worst (which isn’t that bad, because it’s a solid category).
Not only was it a weak film, Brian DePalma seems to get all these kudos and for what I ask!? Any movie he’s directed was written by someone else, and he turned a great story into a mediocre movie (The Untouchables, Carrie, Carlito’s Way). His only decent film is Mission:Impossible.
You left out the Hitchcock ripoffs–”Dressed to Kill” and “Body Double.” And the Antonioni ripoff–”Blow Out.” Ripping off better directors makes you look better than you are to people who don’t know any better.
Yeah, he’s a hack. A successful hack.
I liked Dressed to Kill and Blow Out. And Carlito’s Way. He’s way homagey, sure, but I don’t consider Hitchcock’s movies unimprovable. The Birds, for example, eats a bushel of ass and asks for seconds.
Criticizing a director for not writing his own screenplays is odd. Most directors don’t.
@Alcoholic – agreed for the most part.
@Larry – Blow Out was decent, Dressed to Kill I don’t really have a good memory of. But Carlito’s Way was so bad. Al Pacino just can’t come off as latino in any way, shape or form. The saving grace was some of the action was good (expected), Sean Penn Jew Fro and that one neanderthal headed mexican dude.
“Criticizing a director for not writing his own screenplays is odd.”
I guess my point was that he doesn’t do anything original. But hey, that’s the trend it Hollywood. DePalma is a hipster hack.
“Of all the 80′s cocaine movies, Scarface is the worst ” then what was the best?
“This is not a rip-off. It’s a homage …”
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I’m waiting for the Canadian Scarface. Everyone knows they are the worst drug kingpins in North America.
The current Canadian Scarface is whoever so cleverly swiped about $30 million worth of maple syrup a few months ago. Thats how we DO.
“Don’t worry, another flauta and she’ll love me in de morning.”
Slowpoke Rodriguez he pack a gun.
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I wonder how this movie will separate itself from the voluminous narco-cinema that’s already out there.
” the most overrated movie of our times”
THANK YOU.