Fuqua Eyeing Penn For Scarpa Biopic
Sat, January 17, 2009 
Training Day director Antoine Fuqua has been chatting with our friends at Comingsoon about his new movie 'Brooklyn's Finest', during the interview he revealed his plans for his next project.
"It's called 'Scarpa' with Morgan Creek, and it's New York again, Brooklyn, FBI, Italian gangsters, it takes place from the '60s to the '90s, and we're talking to Sean Penn."
According to Wiki:
Gregory Scarpa Sr., (May 8, 1928 – June 4, 1994) also known as "The Grim Reaper", was a soldier for the Colombo crime family and an informant for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). He was the brother of Colombo crime family mobster Salvatore Scarpa and father of Gregory Scarpa Jr.. During the 1970s and 1980s, Scarpa was the chief enforcer to the fierce Colombo leader Carmine "Junior" Persico.
Sounds like a pretty frightening individual and certainly the kind of intense and conflicted role that would attract Penn. Fuqua has had a rough road since his huge success with 'Training Day' but I think he is a good director (his 2007 action/thriller 'Shooter is criminally underappreciated by the CGI generation) with his best movies ahead of him.
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