Scarface and the Untouchable series in development at Showtime Al Capone and Elliot Ness will once again battle as Deadline reports that Showtime is developing Scarface and the Untouchable, a series lawman Ness’ crusade to bring down infamous gangster Capone in Prohibition-era Chicago. The series comes from producer Alex Kurtzman ( Star Trek: Picard) and writer Ben Jacoby ( Newsflash). Scarface and the Untouchable will be based on Scarface and the Untouchable: Al Capone, Eliot Ness and the Battle for Chicago, a 2018 nonfiction book from Max Allen Collins and A. Brad Schwartz which chronicled the lives of Capone and Ness, which was named Best Book of the Year by the Chicago Public Library. The synopsis for the book drew on “decades of primary source research—including the personal papers of Ness and his associates, newly released federal files, and long-forgotten crime magazines containing interviews with the gangsters and G-men themselves.”