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This Latino is Playing ‘Scarface’ in New Adaptation

Lissete Lanuza Sáenz — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 19:06:38 +0000

A Latino is set to play Scarface in a new adaptation. But it's not going to be the Al Pacino version from 1983.

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How 1983’s ‘Scarface’ Transformed the Way Cubans Were Perceived in the US

Monica Castillo — Fri, 08 Jun 2018 18:18:42 +0000

I was about 16 or 17 years old when I first watched Brian De Palma’s 1983 film Scarface. The boys at school had become obsessed with it, one of them even wore a T-shirt of the poster to school. One charming personality thought it would be cute to ask me where the drugs were every

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The Diego Luna ‘Scarface’ Remake Gets a New Writer, And He’s Actually Mexican

Kristen Lopez — Thu, 29 Mar 2018 17:38:55 +0000

It’s been over a year since any significant traction was made on the most recent remake the 1930s gangster picture Scarface. Rumors that Mexican actor Diego Luna had nabbed the role of refugee turned drug kingpin Tony Montana were the most recent developments. We even offered up our own casting suggestions to help get the

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36 Movies Starring Latinos We Can’t Wait to See in 2018

Manuel Betancourt — Wed, 31 Jan 2018 19:58:30 +0000

January is usually a barren wasteland when it comes to new releases. You’re either catching up on Oscar-nominated films that only now made it to your local theater after playing in Los Angeles and New York for months, or you’re wishing you were at Sundance looking at all the buzzy titles coming out of Park

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Diego Luna Rumored to Star in ‘Scarface’ Remake Set in Los Angeles

Andrew S. Vargas — Tue, 31 Jan 2017 21:22:41 +0000

Thirty four years after its release, Brian De Palma’s Scarface has inspired generations of hustlers, rappers, small-time slingers, and wannabe gangsters with its epic, archetypal tale of one man’s brutal rise to power. Which is to say, of course, that the beloved story is ripe for Hollywood’s copy/paste machine to milk for a few hundred million

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From ‘Scarface’ to ‘South of the Border’: 7 Oliver Stone Films About Latin America

Mary Angelica Molina — Mon, 07 Nov 2016 18:22:36 +0000

Though Oliver Stone is best known for US-centric films like 'JFK' and 'Born on the Fourth of July,' he’s also made a bunch of movies about Latin Americans.

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This Miami Film Collective is Remaking ‘Scarface’ Using Epic, Crowdsourced 15-Second Clips

Andrew S. Vargas — Mon, 04 Aug 2014 16:20:04 +0000

Borscht Corp wants to remake 'Scarface', with your help. We caught up with Jillian Mayer to talk about redefining Miami in this new project.

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Dream Casting the 'Scarface' Remake (This Time, Tony Is Mexican!)

Matt Barbot — Tue, 25 Mar 2014 19:42:47 +0000

A remake of 'Scarface' has been announced. The new version tells the story of a Mexican immigrant in Los Angeles. Who would you cast in this role?

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