Mickey Rourke The ICE MAN?

Not too long ago Phil Carlo who penned the book THE ICE MAN: CONFESSIONS OF A MAFIA CONTRACT KILLER about an actual killer named Richard Kuklinski, killed the contract with producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura, because Carlo heard that Channing Tatum was in negotiation to star in this biopic and just like that, the best seller author pulled the plug on the deal and refused to extend the option and all because he couldn’t stand the idea of Tatum playing Kukliniski.

“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.”

Carlo might get his way after all, that is the following info turns out to be true. NY Post says the author has met with Mickey Rourke, they’re producing the movie together and production may start in the Spring in New Jersey, New York and Florida.
Carlo said Rourke thinks ICE MAN would be like his Raging Bull.
For now, take this all with a grain of salt until we hear any type of confirmation

I looked up Wikipedia and found that this Kukliniski dude got a seriously devil son mean reputation.
“He worked for several Italian-American crime families, and claimed to have murdered over 200 men over a career that lasted 30 years; he killed his first victim at age 13.
One of his favorite methods of disposing of a body was to place it in a 55-gallon oil drum. His other disposal methods included dismemberment, burial, or placing the body in the trunk of a car and having it crushed in a junkyard. He also claimed to have left bodies sitting on park benches, thrown bodies down “bottomless pits” and fed still-alive victims to giant rats in Pennsylvania.”