Universal first announced plans for another remake in Since then, several different directors and writers have been attached. As of the last update, the movie is still in the works, with Luca Guadagnino attached to direct a script written by the Coen Brothers. You can follow him on Twitter ChrisXMorgan.
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But the cherry on top is surely an adequately volatile and expressionless Al Pacino. However, if you are asking whether the character of Tony Montana is based on an actual mafia boss, we have you insured. The novel, the viewers will be astonished to know, is loosely based on the life of infamous American gangster Al Capone.
Pacino happened to go to a screening of the original film at the iconic Tiffany Theater of Sunset Boulevard, and he instantly fell in love with it.
He gave the idea of a remake to producer Martin Bregman, and together, they began to work on the story. Sidney Lumet joined the production as director. However, the role finally went to Al Pacino, and his hard-headed persona and Spanish accent are seemingly unmatchable.
However, he later realized the difficulty in creating a classic Hollywood ambiance in the s and decided to modernize the story instead. He gave the character of Montana a Cuban makeover, directly relating it to the incident of the Mariel boatlift. The Mariel boatlift, in question, was a large exodus wave where as many as , Cubans migrated to Florida.
It cost too much, went over, and was a black sheep from the get-go with Universal. But whatever the number, Scarface needed to do big business to go into the black — which is part of why its makers panicked when, on October 28 less than two months before its release , the MPAA slapped it with the dreaded X rating. There was precedent for the ratings trouble: The original Scarface was reworked greatly to satisfy the Hays Office, and was nevertheless banned by several states.
But the clock was ticking, and several theaters in Los Angeles were already advertising the film as rated R. Scarface premiered on December 4 at the National Theater in New York, in advance of its December 9 release to 1, theaters across the country.
It was, by then, a touchstone in the hip-hop community, where shout-outs and samples from the film are ubiquitous. T-shirts flew off flea market shelves; posters became dorm-room standbys. Already a subscriber?
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