No. C'mon. Don't do this, Universal. Have you no moral obligation to keep away from iconic properties like this? Have you no mercy? What did the audiences ever do to you? So there are plans in motion at this very moment which mean that an updated version of Scarface - set in modern L.A. - could very much be a thing in the next few years' time. The guys tasked with bringing Scarface to the 21st century are none other than writer Jonathan Herman and director Pablo Larraín, who you almost definitely haven't heard of. Okay, so it's a little unfair - and somewhat hypocritical - to complain about a remake of Scarface when the 1983 version of Scarface is a remake itself (it was based on the Howard Hawks' movie of the same name from 1932). Still, who cares? There are plenty of other less-worn stories out there for Hollywood to tell; this isn't one that folk need to see again. Al Pacino doesn't care, by the way. "It's part of what we do," he said in response to the news of an updated Scarface. "We remake things. I may remake a movie I saw recently. I can't say what it is. It's about 50 years old." You can't say what it is, Al? Surely you can say? He's no Donald Sutherland, huh?
Sam Hill is an ardent cinephile and has been writing about film professionally since 2008. He harbours a particular fondness for western and sci-fi movies.
