Q 01/05

Who directed the 1983 Scarface?

A) Francis Ford Coppola

B) Brian De Palma

C) Michael Mann

D) John Carpenter

Answer · why

B) Brian De Palma

Brian De Palma got involved after pursuing Al Pacino for the lead in Blow Out; Pacino pitched him a remake instead and sent over a videotape of the 19...

Q 02/05

Who wrote the screenplay for the 1983 Scarface?

A) David Mamet

B) Robert Towne

C) Oliver Stone

D) Paul Schrader

Answer · why

C) Oliver Stone

Oliver Stone researched the script in South Florida with access to prosecutors' and organized-crime files; the Broward County bureau that helped him i...

Q 03/05

Why did the screenwriter of the 1983 Scarface move to Paris to write the script?

A) To escape studio interference

B) To break his cocaine addiction

C) To dodge a writers' strike

D) To research French drug routes

Answer · why

B) To break his cocaine addiction

To break his cocaine addiction: he believed he could not quit while in the United States, and has said he wrote the script completely clean because th...

Q 04/05

Which veteran director was attached to the 1983 Scarface for a time before leaving the project?

A) Bob Fosse

B) Sidney Lumet

C) William Friedkin

D) Michael Cimino

Answer · why

B) Sidney Lumet

Sidney Lumet left over creative differences, but by the screenwriter's account his was the idea that reshaped the remake: make the Prohibition gangste...

Q 05/05

Scarface producer Martin Bregman, who was also Al Pacino's manager, had earlier produced which Pacino film?

A) Cruising

B) Scarecrow

C) Serpico

D) Bobby Deerfield

Answer · why

C) Serpico

Serpico came first: Bregman had spotted Pacino in a stage play and become his manager, and Scarface began when the actor phoned him after watching the...