Fan Casting Silvermane in Edgar Wright's Astonishing Ant-Man

Silvio Manfredi started his career in the 1920s as muscle for Al Capone. He was only a teenager at the time, barely fourteen. As time went on, Manfredi rose through the ranks, first becoming a manager for one of the speakeasies and then owning his own bar once Prohibition was repealed. Unlike many other Prohibition-era gangsters, Manfredi learned to adapt to the changing times. By the age of 25, he was already known by the moniker "Silvermane", as his hair was already turning white. After World War II ended, Silvermane gained enough power to effectively take over the Chicago underworld, which he led through a combination of fear and respect. In the '60s and '70s, Silvermane spent time in exile in Europe avoiding a number of criminal charges; he later accepted a plea bargain for tax evasion in order to return home. In the past, Sivermane's men clashed repeatedly with the vigilante Black Fox (of the First Line), and later with Black Fox's protege Nightfox, who led a team dubbed the Rust Belters. On rare occasions in the '90s, the New York based outlaw team called the Shadowguard opposed Silvermane's Maggia operations, though they generally tended to oppose the New York City based Romero family (who would later become the Hammerhead family) instead. Only recently has the Leo family of the Zodiac Cartel come into conflict with his Maggia family over control for Chicago's gangland.