This Article is From Sep 13, 2010

Mickey Rourke to star in mafia film

Highlights

  • 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.
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.

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