What's that? Scarface is being remade but in a more contemporary setting? Wonderful news. Finally, someone's making a decent version of Scarface. The first one was such a huge bucket of horseshit it would be a crime not to. Maybe this time, the cocaine is just a metaphor and the guns are metaphors too. Maybe he's not a drug dealer, but a car driver, and maybe instead of taking over the town, he just takes over other cars. Brilliant. It writes itself. We'll call it The Scar and the Faces.

So yes, apparently the man attempting the impossible is David Ayer, the writer of Training Day, U-571 and the original The Fast and the Furious. He reckons it shouldn't be too difficult at all (Via Deadline)

“I sought it out; I went after it hard. I see it as the story of the American dream, with a character whose moral compass points in a different direction. That puts it right in my wheelhouse,” 

“I studied both the original Ben Hecht-Howard Hawks movie and the De Palma-Pacino version and found some universal themes. I’m still under the hood figuring out the wiring that will translate, but … there are enough opportunities in the real world today that provide an opportunity to do this right. If it was just an attempt to remake the 1983 film, that would never work.”

Can't wait. For the dialogue especially. Who could forget this memorable line from epoch defining cinematographic masterpiece The Fast and Furious:

"I live my life a quarter mile at a time. Nothing else matters: not the mortgage, not the store, not my team and all their bullshit. For those ten seconds or less, I'm free."

OH YEAH! THAT'S HOW WE LIVE TOO, DAVID AYERS!