It simply didn't make sense to have Pacino doing it. We've got 30,000 lines of dialogue in the game - that's 10-15 days of solid studio work just for Tony's character. 'His digital likeness, the choice of actor to play him.
'Pacino approved a lot of things,' recalls Weber. Admittedly, he doesn't say Tony Montana's lines, but he apparently did pick out his own soundalike from a gaggle of 70 Tony-impersonators. The game is quite a bit different.Īnother thing Scarface: TWIY has that The Godfather conspicuously doesn't is Pacino himself. In the film, Tony Montana was first sprayed with semiautomatic gunfire, blasted in the spine with a pump-action shotgun before finally falling 20ft into a concrete fountain with little bits of cocaine dribbling out of his nostrils. VU and Radical have taken the script and ripped out the last page.
One in which Tony Montana is alive, and not at all stone-cold dead in a posh paddling pool.
