More join The Iceman

No, not the Iceman mutant from X-Men, or the Mickey Rourke starring The Ice Man, but the brutal mafia hitman/serial killer from 1948 that killed nearly 250 people in a 20 year span, in The Iceman. Confused? Don’t be.

Ariel Vromen is directing The Ice Man, a biopic of Richard Kuklinsky, based on the book from author Anthony Bruno, called The Iceman: The True Story of a Cold-Blooded Killer. The film has just added James Franco (Spider-Man 3, Milk, Rise of the Apes), Michael Shannon (Revolutionary Road, Bug), and Bencio Del Toro (Che, Wolf Man).

Here’s the plot: “Richard Kuklinsky, son of a brutal, alcoholic father who came home only infrequently and a mother who vented her resentment on her children, grew up to be an efficient mass murderer. By the time of his trial in 1988 at age 53 he had killed upwards of 100 men by shooting, stabbing, choking or poisoning them. Kuklinsky, a New Jersey family man with two daughters and a son, was finally brought to justice through the efforts of Special Agent Dominick Polifrone of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, working with the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office and the New Jersey State Police.”

Now, a dueling film starring Mickey Rourke called The Ice Man is in production with screenwriter David McKenna (American History X) adapting. But now there’s two projects, so it’ll be curious to see if one buckles and shuts down or if we will have two films on the same subject to see at the theaters.

Source: Collider