He’s not THAT bad!
When the option to Phil Carlo‘s book The Ice Man: Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer expired last month, the author denied renegotiating with Transformers producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura.
The reason? Turns out di Bonaventura was trying to woo Channing Tatum for the lead role.
Says Carlo:
“I had to turn him down. I really hated the idea of Channing Tatum. I told di Bonaventura that this is not the guy to play one of the most feared killers of the 20th Century. I think Mickey Rourke would really be good. He’s got that sense of danger, and there’s a similarity between the two. But it’s not Channing Tatum.”
The film follows Richard Kuklinski, a notorious contract killer who worked for the Gambinos and bragged about murdering over 200 men. He garnered the nickname Ice Man by blurring his victim’s time of death by chilling their bodies in an industrial freezer.
If Mickey Rourke doesn’t work out, what about Gary Busey?!
You may want someone that’s almost really insane!
[Image via WENN.]
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