Scarface (novel) that follows a Mexican immigrant's rise in the criminal underworld as he strives for the American Dream. On August 10, 2016, Deadline Hollywood reported that Antoine Fuqua was in talks to direct the film. On September 28, 2016, "Variety" reported that Terence Winter would be penning the script for the film. Scarface (novel) Scarface is a novel written by Armitage Trail in 1929 and published in 1930. The 1932 film "Scarface" was based on it. The twenty-eight year-old author died suddenly of a heart attack in 1930. The book's storyline is heavily inspired by the real life gangster Al Capone
Scarface (soundtrack) disc. According to Brian De Palma, the film director of "Scarface", Universal Pictures had intended to re-release the film with a rap score, but De Palma has not allowed them to change the original score, as he considered it to be "perfect". Thanks to the re-release, on March 7, 2004, "Scarface" debuted at number 98 in the French Album Chart. The soundtrack stayed in the chart for seven weeks. In its review for the website AllMusic, Jason Birchmeier compared "Scarface" to other soundtrack works of Moroder, including "Flashdance" and "Electric Dreams", both released in 1983. Birchmeier considered the collaborations of