Scarface Fun Facts, Quotes and Tweets
19th March 2015
Fact: Production on the remake of iconic 1983 movie Scarface is gaining momentum as Universal Pictures bosses have hired JONATHAN HERMAN to pen the script. Herman recently completed the forthcoming NWA biopic, Straight Outta Compton. Al Pacino's Scarface was a remake of the 1932 film of the same name.
13th May 2014
Fact: The California mansion that served as Tony Montana's Miami home in cult film Scarface is on the market. The Montecito estate is being sold by a Russian billionaire for $35 million (Gbp21.8 million).
17th January 2013
Fact: Al Pacino is to reteam with his Scarface and Carlito's Way director Brian De Palma for a new film about disgraced U.S. college football coach Joe Paterno. Pacino will portray the late Penn State football icon, who was forced to resign amid a college sex scandal in 2011. Paterno died in January 2012.
14th July 2010
Fact: Al Pacino is the new celebrity spokesperson for Australian coffee company Vittoria. The Scarface star teamed up with Rain Man director Barry Levinson to film commercials for the beverage in New York's West Village.
18th June 2007
Fact: Movie executives at NBC/Universal are reworking the soundtrack of cult classic gangster film Scarface to incorporate modern rap anthems for the film's upcoming 25th anniversary re-release in 2008.
11th April 2006
Fact: British funnyman Ricky Gervais is joining Sean Combs, Motorhead's Lemmy, Cheech Marin and FUN LOVIN' CRIMINALS star HUEY in lending a voice to characters in the new computer game version of Scarface.
11th April 2006
Fact: British funnyman Ricky Gervais is joining Sean Combs, Motorhead's Lemmy, Cheech Marin and FUN LOVIN' CRIMINALS star HUEY in lending a voice to characters in the new computer game version of Scarface.
10th October 2005
Quote: <p>"My son one time told me, 'Are you crazy? Why did you name me after a junkie drug dealer?' He was a good person. He was doing the wrong thing... for the right reasons." Columbian pin-up Sofia Vergara on why she named her teenage son after Tony Montana's best friend MANOLO in her favourite movie Scarface. </p>
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