The New Scarface Remake Has a Writer and Director

A new Scarface remake is on the way, and if you're keeping score at home this is the third movie of the same name since the thirties. The first one, starring Paul Muni, debuted in April 1932 while the more iconic version of the film starring Al Pacino was released in December 1983.

A Modern-Day 'Scarface' remake penned by the ‘Straight Outta Compton’ writer has gotten the green light: https://t.co/SCWPqMyzJX

— Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) March 18, 2015

Right now there is no release date set in stone for the second remake but the script is good to go. Straight Outta Compton writer Jonathon Herman rewrote the original version of the script written by the team of Paul Attanasio and David Ayer. (Attansio wrote and produced Donnie Brasco and Ayer has writing credits for the original Fast and the Furious, Training Day, Fury and the upcoming Suicide Squad movie.)

Attansio, Herman and Ayer slightly revamped the Scarface story. The Tony Montana character will be a Mexican immigrant and instead of the movie taking place in Miami, he'll be rising to power in the criminal underworld of Los Angeles. It's in the vein of the last Scarface remake but the race and location have been changed.

Pablo Larrain is inked in as the film's director and he told The Wrap that the new "Scarface" is going to be origin heavy. Pacino's film began with Tony coming off the boat from Cuba but The Wrap says we'll be seeing how his scars and emotional wounds shaped him as a man — something the last movie left out.

Larrain's previous directing experience includes Tony Manero and the 2012 Gael Bernal movie No. No was nominated for a Foreign Language Oscar and won an Art Cinema Award at the Cannes Film Festival.

Scarface's director was supposed to be Harry Potter filmmaker David Yates but his obligations to a Tarzan movie kept him from signing on.