I don't know if this is true, but a friend of mine living in France read this in a local newspaper over there, about some French producer remaking SCARFACE itself, or actually an unofficial remake(like the recent good french flick THE NEST was a not-so-secret rehash of John Carpenter's ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13, which ironically was a remake of RIO BRAVO) of the same story that both Howard Hawkes and Brian DePalma have helmed.

Anyway, this "remake" would be about a Muslim immigrant chump(who of course has a "scar" on his face ) who rises up to the top of crime in France, and then of course his disgraceful downfall.

Then again, its not a bad idea. France is currently has the largest population of "Islamic" immigrants in Western Europe(which has led to problems in the civic system over in the country between the "natives" and immigrants that is comparable to the Italian immigration flood of a century ago and the Cuban influx since Castro's take-over of Cube in 1959). Of course HOW can you tell the same story again really before we people just don't care?

Of course, this could be a false rumor(European tabloids are infamous for their not-so-truthful reporting).