Luca Guadagnino, who was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture for producing his Call Me By Your Name (2017), is set to direct a remake of Scarface written by the Coen Brothers, according to The Guardian. Howard Hawks directed the 1932 original starring Paul Muni, while Brian De Palma directed the 1983 version starring Al Pacino. Back in 2011, Martin Bergman, who produced De Palma’s Scarface, was named as a producer for the remake, with David Yates lined up to direct a screenplay by David Ayer, until Bergman died in 2018 and Dylan Clark, producer of Matt Reeves’s The Batman (2021), took over.
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“The Princess Bride” star leads charge on Twitter against remaking film
As part of a Variety profile published Tuesday about Norman Lear, the executive producer behind Rob Reiner’s The Princess Bride (1987), Sony Pictures Entertainment chief executive Tony Vinciquerra says a reboot of the film may be in the works, according to NBC News. Cary Elwes, who stars as Westley, tweeted his condemnation against the idea, calling the classic a “perfect” movie, and so did Jaime Lee Curtis (whose husband, Christopher Guest, plays Count Tyrone Rugen), saying “there is only ONE The Princess Bride.” So many other celebrities as well as fans have followed suit, the backlash topped Twitter’s trending topics.
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