Los Angeles:
Hollywood actor Mickey Rourke has been roped in to star in a movie adaptation of Philip Carlo's mafia book The Ice Man: Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer.
Carlo's book tells the true story of Richard The Ice Man Kuklinski who for over 40 years led a completely secretive double life as both a notorious professional assassin and a doting husband and father in suburban New Jersey.
"This is a role Mickey Rourke was born to play and, I am thrilled to have him on board," variety.com quoted producer Matty Beckerman as saying.
Carlo's book tells the true story of Richard The Ice Man Kuklinski who for over 40 years led a completely secretive double life as both a notorious professional assassin and a doting husband and father in suburban New Jersey.
"This is a role Mickey Rourke was born to play and, I am thrilled to have him on board," variety.com quoted producer Matty Beckerman as saying.
