Is 'By Any Means' a True Story? The Real Gregory Scarpa, Vernon Dahmer Case & Family's Accuracy Concerns Explained

Paramount By Any Means is inspired by the real 1966 murder of Mississippi civil-rights leader Vernon Dahmer and reports that FBI informant and Colombo crime-family figure Gregory Scarpa helped the investigation. In short, yes the movie does use real historical events and people, but it is an action-thriller film interpretation and not a documentary. Both Gregory Scarpa and Vernon Dahmer were real, but Wayne Strider is a fictional composite. Credit: Paramount What is By Any Means About? Directed by Elegance Bratton and written by Sascha Penn, By Any Means is a new action thriller starring Mark . . .