14 DAY TRIAL // All of that fun he had playing with guns, tanks and explosives while making “The Expendables” movies wasn't wasted on Sylvester Stallone because the aging actor has just landed a role in a more serious movie that will see him again portray a tough guy on screen.
The Wrap announced that Sly was going to appear in a new mob movie called “Scarpa,” in which he's going to portray the real-life hitman Gregory Scarpa, who acted as an enforcer for the Colombo crime family.
The script is written by Nick Pileggi, the same man who worked on “Goodfellas” and it tells the story of the ruthless Scarpa, who reportedly killed 50 people at the behest of the mob before finally turning on them and becoming an FBI informant after his family was murdered.
Interestingly, Scarpa made up for his actions by going on a secret mission in which he did all sorts of weird things like kidnapping Ku Klux Klan members and convincing them through his own means to reveal the whereabouts of the bodies of three civil rights workers they had killed in Mississippi.
The real-life Scarpa died in prison in 1994 after he was diagnosed with AIDS. He confessed to three murders.