The overall description of the project sounds like it will maintain the core story and narrative feeling of Brian De Palma’s 1982 Scarface film, but update the setting and protagonist to focus on a Mexican immigrant’s rise to power in Los Angeles.
A new report from Variety confirms that Suicide Squad director David Ayer is currently in talks to step behind the camera for Universal’s upcoming Scarface update.
Training Day’s Antoine Fuqua was originally slated to direct the remake (based on a script penned by The Coen Brothers), but recently dropped out of the project.
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story’s Diego Luna was at one point attached to headline the film as its new version of Tony Montana, but it remains unclear whether or not he has opted to stick around in the wake of Fuqua’s departure.