The First Remake Wasn't Terrible Enough – New Scarface In Development

As someone who loves movies in general, the works of Brian De Palma and the gangster genre, I don't hold the 1983 version of Scarface to any high standards. It's a shitty movie. We got it, De Palma. It's about excess. So you decided to go overboard with everything and take it to 11; excessive running-length, acting, violence, language.

How Scarface caught on with the hip-hop community also escapes me. For all the worship of Tony Montana and those who claim to aspire to be like him, those idiots are aware the film ends with him being murdered in typically-violent De Palma fashion for living that lifestyle? I'm not even going to begin expecting those devotees to know that it's a remake of the 1932 Howard Hawkes/Richard Rosson film, also reviled upon its release for its violence but a commercial success unlike the '83 iteration.

Word has whispered to the ears of "TOLDJA" that a third version of Scarface is in development at Universal under the supervision of producers Martin Bregman (who produced De Palma's version) and Marc Shmuger. The studio is currently mulling through screenwriters to take on the job which will take on the basic spine of the story prevalent in both Scarfaces – the rise and fall of an outsider coming into the world of organized crime.

So get ready for douchebags saying, "Say 'Hello!' to my little friend!" again – a line I'm sure will be shoe-horned into the new Scarface.