The Scarface remake subsequently received a rewrite by the Coen Brothers, themselves no strangers to hard-boiled gangster flicks and crime epics.
Universal’s Scarface remake has unsurprisingly lost its Summer 2018 release date, but now has Antoine Fuqua back in talks to serve as its director.
The pairing of grisly subject matter with the director of Training Day and The Equalizer seemed a perfect match on paper, but Fuqua’s commitment to The Equalizer 2 forced him to drop out of the project.
Ayer actually worked on the script for an earlier iteration of the Scarface remake that David Yates was going to direct, well before Fuqua entered the picture.