Scarpa would sometimes leave the numbers "666", the biblical Number of the Beast, on his victims' pagers. (A communication device or most commonly known as a beeper).
With the film being in pre- production, it is rumoured that the script is being written by Goodfellas scribe Nicholas Pileggi and produced by Avi Lerner of Millennium Films, along with fellow Goodfellas and Rocky producer Irwin Winkler. Also rumoured that Brad Furman is set to direct.
Gregory Scarpa, also known as "The Grim Reaper" and "The Mad Hatter", was a capo for the Colombo crime family and an informant for the FBI.
At the premiere of The Infiltrator (directed by Bead Furman) Mickey Rourke speculated that the two were working on a project together in the near future.
Scarpa was never actually a captain in the Colombo family , he was only ever a soldier under capo Anthony scappy scarpati and then Anthony chickie Russo