Scarface remake loses director David Ayer
Ayer recently helmed Suicide Squad
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Your support makes all the difference.Suicide Squad director David Ayer will no longer helm the upcoming Scarface reboot from Universal, Variety reports.
According to the publication, scheduling conflicts between Universal studios and Ayer’s work on upcoming Netflix film Bright, starring Will Smith, forced the split.
Previously, Antoine Fuqua — who recently released The Magnificent Seven — was attached to the long-delayed project, but left after scheduling conflicts with the sequel to The Equalizer.
Rogue One’s Diego Luna remains on board the project, the studio working hard to find a new director, hoping to get the project going by the year’s end.
Martin Bregman — who produced the 1983 flick — along with Dylan Clark (through his Dylan Clark Production banner) will produce the reboot.
Scarface has previously featured on the big screen twice, the first being in 1932, with Howard Hawks and Richard Rosson starring. The iconic Al Pacino-starring version is often heralded as one of the best films of all time.
Boardwalk Empire and The Sopranos' Terence Winter wrote the most recent draft of the new script; the 1983 screenplay was written by Oliver Stone, who saw it as his personal revenge on cocaine.
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