Deadline reports that Universal Pictures is eyeing Antoine Fuqua to direct the third big-screen version of Scarface. A number of other directors have previously been courted for the film, including Harry Potter director David Yates and No director Pablo Larrain.
Fuqua has found a lot of success lately with The Equalizer and Olympus Has Fallen, with his next film The Magnificent Seven debuting in theaters September 23.
Jonathan Herman (Straight Outta Compton, Ghost in the Shell) has penned the most recent version of the screenplay, which was previously written by Fuqua’s Training Day writer David Ayer (Suicide Squad).
The first theatrical Scarface made it to theaters in 1932 from director Howard Hawks and told the story of an Irish immigrant’s rise to power as a gangster in 1920s Chicago. The film was remade in 1983 directed by Brian De Palma and written by Oliver Stone with Al Pacino in the lead role, shifting the focus to a Cuban refugee rising to power as a gangster in 1980s Miami.
