On July 2, 2014, Richard Johnson at the New York Post’s Page Six posted Stallone’s New Tough Guy-Role? Here’s a taste… check out the article for full details!
Sly would play Greg Scarpa, a hitman known as “the Grim Reaper.”
The screenplay by Nick Pileggi, who wrote “Goodfellas” and “Casino,” will gloss over Scarpa’s involvement in 20 murders, and focus on his career as a T.E., a top echelon informant for the FBI, who secretly solved the “Mississippi Burning” case…
Pileggi told me, “It’s a fabulous story. Stallone is interested. He likes the script.” Irwin Winkler, of “Rocky” fame, would produce with Avi Lerner, who produced “The Expendables” and its sequels.
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