Updated: Brad Furman Directing Sylvester Stallone In Scarpa (2015)

UPDATED: According to Variety, the director is Brad Furman.  Furman has directed three movies, two of them were shit (The Take and Runner Runner), one of them was “not too bad” – The Lincoln Lawyer.

Previously:
Last week it was reported that Sylvester Stallone was planning to play Greg Scarpa, a notorious mob hitman responsible for in excess of 20 murders who was in the service of the F.B.I. as an informant.  The screenplay is being written by Nick Pileggi, who wrote Goodfellas and Casino.

We have an update on this today.  It seems that the movie, which will be produced by Avi Lerner, will shoot this October in Bulgaria, according to monitor.bg.  “Stallone is not worried by the fact that this time he will not play the protagonist, and will not be producer. He even went to study books describing the psychology of mass murderers like Scarpa”.

This might not be Stallone’s only upcoming stint in Bulgaria.  According to Robert Luketic, director of The ExpendaBelles, Sylvester Stallone (and Harrison Ford) will be “in the movie”, which we forecasted last year on the basic assumption that they’d need starpower to get that thing launched, probably in the form of extended cameos.  And that movie is filming in Bulgaria too, possibly as early as September.

I have a feeling Rambo might be headed to Bulgaria too.  Who knows.