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New Mafia movie based on real-life suburban hit man

By: Staff Writer

Posted: 08/31/2012 1:00 AM | Comments: 0

VENICE, Italy -- Michael Shannon is filmdom's newest Mafia hit man, playing a killer-for-hire who conceals the truth of his occupation from his picture-perfect suburban family in The Iceman.

Israeli director Ariel Vroman says he fought for years to get Shannon into the role, fending off "more obvious choices."

Vroman said he wanted Shannon because "he comes with a darkness," explaining it was more effective to "make that darkness more refined" than to "bring someone who is very cheesy" and try to add it.

In the film, based on the real story of Richard Kuklinski, Shannon stars alongside Winona Ryder as his unsuspecting wife and Ray Liotta as the Mafia boss who recognizes hit-man potential. The film makes its world première Thursday in competition at the Venice Film Festival.

-- The Associated Press

Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition August 31, 2012 D2

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