10 Reasons Why The Scarface Remake Shouldn't Happen

2. No-One Can Replace Al Pacino

However many awful films he's made in the past few years (Jack and Jill, Righteous Kill, 88 Minutes), there are still very few actors with the raw and burning charisma of Al Pacino. His performance in Scarface still divides audiences: it's powerful and operatic but also over-the-top and borderline ridiculous. In many ways it's the performance that separates his earlier, more refined work with his later films in which he has been increasingly paid to turn up and shout. Whatever your opinion of his performance, it's a very hard act to follow. Pacino himself had a hard act to follow in Paul Muni, but by then he was an established star who knew how to work the camera. Casting a relative unknown would be too tall an order if the part requires the same amount of presence, and while there are no shortage of Hispanic actors out there, few have the star power to be cast as the lead in a big-budget Hollywood film. Even if the new Scarface won't be named Tony Montana, chances are that he'll always be in Pacino's shadow.