When people think of David Schwimmer, the words ‘stone-cold killer’ rarely come to mind. However it seems he’s looking to change our minds about that as Variety reports that he’s in talks to play a mob assassin in The Iceman. Yes, I did just say Ross from Friends might be playing a mob assassin.
In fact it’s almost a surprise he’s playing anything, as he’s done little acting other than a few voice roles and cameos since Friends came to an end, instead concentrating on becoming a director of movies like Run Fatboy Run and Trust.
The long-gestating Iceman has Michael Shannon lined up to play the title character, Richard Kuklinski (Shannon), a notorious mob contract killer and loving family man. He earned his nickname by freezing the bodies of his victims, disguising the time of death, and throwing police off-track. However he didn’t just kill for money, as Kulinski was a true psychopath, and had murdered numerous people before he attracted the mob’s attention. His family and neighbors believed he was an average businessman, having no idea about his deadly alternate life. Kuklinski killed over one hundred people during his life.
Schwimmer is going to play Josh Rosenthal, a fellow assassin in the employ of mob boss Roy Demeo (Ray Liotta), a man he reveres and desperately wants the respect of. Those role were originally going to be played by James Franco and Benicio Del Toro, but production delays caused them to drop out. Maggie Gyllenhaal will also be in the movie as Kulinski’s doting wife, while Ryan O’Nan will play a young hustler who gets caught up in Kuklinski’s deception.
Ariel Vromen is set to direct the film, with shooting beginning in December.
General movie news courtesy of Movie Muser
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