What took them so long to decide to make a movie about Richard “Ice Man” Kuklinski?
Variety reports: “Allen and Albert Hughes will direct a feature about Mafia hitman Richard “Ice Man” Kuklinski. Producers Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Jason Blum have acquired screen rights to Philip Carlo book “The Ice Man: Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer.”
While the story of “The Ice Man” is very interesting from what I remember this book is a bore. Someone should write a better one, if not, hopefully the movie will be better.
“At a hulking six-foot-four and 300 pounds, Kuklinski managed to become a prolific contract killer for the Gambino family while keeping his occupation a secret from his wife and three children in New Jersey. By his own account, Kuklinski killed as many as 200 people.”
You can read more about “Tha Ice Man” at The Crime Library.
“He kept one of his victims frozen for over two years to see if he could disguise the time of death. When I met with him, he indicated that he had kept the body in the freezer vault of a Mr. Softee ice cream truck, though the police doubt the veracity of that part of his story.”
