With a Scarface remake having been spinning its wheels for a few years now, that new take on an old favourite has now found a new director.

Courtesy of Deadline, Luca Guadagnino has boarded the project. To genre fans, Guadagnino will be best known for helming the stunning 2018 Suspiria.

If that news isn’t encouraging enough, the most recent draft of the Scarface script has been penned by the iconic pairing of Joel and Ethan Coen.

The last concrete news we’ve had on this new Scarface was back in 2017. At that point, The Equalizer director Antoine Fuqua departed the director’s chair early in the year, while his replacement David Ayer (Suicide Squad) likewise exited the project by the end of the year.

At the last count, Rogue One’s Diego Luna was on board to headline Scarface – although it remains to be seen whether that is still the case, especially with Luna now committed to a Cassian Andor series for Disney+.

Scarface was originally a 1932 movie from Howard Hawks, telling the story of an Irish immigrant rising to power in Chicago’s gangster-driven landscape. In 1983, Al Pacino famously starred in Brian De Palma’s Scarface, taking the original tale and changing it up for a 1980s Miami setting and focussing on a Cuban refugee. In this upcoming picture, the current word is that the film will have a Los Angeles setting.

As ever, expect more on this new Scarface as it continues to develop.