After 3 Decades, SCARFACE gets a New Remake

Paul Muni as Tony
Camonte, The Scarface
of the original 1932
version

Brian De Palma‘s 1983 movie SCARFACE, which starred Michelle Pfeiffer and Al Pacino in his unforgettable role as the highly influential gangster, was not exactly a good movie. But over the years, it has become this iconic gangster movie that has become embedded in various forms of media (especially in hip-hop culture). That 1983 movie was itself, a remake of the 1932 movie of the same title (which many critics refer to as the better version of the two)

Now, it's going through the remake mill again as Universal is working on bringing back SCARFACE and take the ethnic and geographical aspects of the previous two movies, and then reposition them into a 21st century context. [continue after the jump]

But what is highly surprising here is that the director set to take the helm of this Scarface movie is David Yates, who has directed most of the Harry Potter movies. This is all good news. Aside from the fact that Yates was originally wanting to direct an Al Capone movie, is indeed an incredibly good director and with him taking on a Scarface movie, anticipation is surely positively high. On the other hand, I would have wanted Scarface to have a period film setting, but then again that's just me and my love for classic noir, which I usually think of Scarface as being one.