Update: THR reports that Hell or High Water director David Mackenzie and Patriot’s Day director Peter Berg are in talks with Universal to helm Scarface. The write-up has some interesting backstory on Mackenzie and Berg’s relationship to the studio and to each other, but for me, the more interesting story is what we’re going to get from a Scarface retelling scripted by the Coens and directed by either Mackenzie, who made a big splash recently with his Neo-Western, or Berg, whose last outing our own Perri Nemiroff said “isn’t an easy watch, but it’s a necessary one – perhaps now more so than ever.” It’s unfortunate that we can’t get both versions!
