To be honest, DePalma's
Scarface, speaking strictly in a cinematic sense, wasn't the greatest movie anyway. The acting, music, and cinematography was WAY over-the-top. And I'm a huge Coen Brothers fan. Pretty much anything they touch is going to be good (
Hail Caesar aside), so I'm sure they'd do a good job with it. But still, there are some movies you just don't touch, and Scarface is one of them. In fact, you could make a legitimate argument that it's the most influential movie since
Star Wars. For the past 35 years or so, pretty much any movie, book, TV show, or videogame that has anything to do with Miami, organized crime, and/or the drug trade owes something to Scarface. From
Miami Vice, to
Dexter, to
Breaking Bad, to
Grand Theft Auto. Not to mention the countless references in music lyrics. You just don't mess with something like that.
Between the countless remakes (was anyone really clamoring for a new
C.H.I.P.s or
Baywatch?) and the 25 or so superhero reboots that come out every year, there's a real creative void in Hollywood right now. Seems like there's a real opportunity for some creative type to, you know, actually
be creative.