Here is why the Mickey Rourke Iceman Movie didn´t came out jet:
Interview with Ariel Vromen, director of the 2012 Iceman Pic:
In 2010, Mickey Rourke was tapped to play Kuklinski in a film based on Philip Carlo’s biography, but that project is still in development. You began work on your version around the same time, and its finally being released. How did you push through your project?
Ariel: There were two books, and the first time that I went to New York—I’d had a meeting at Paramount and literally on the way I told them I was going to New York to get the rights for the book. And by the time I landed in New York they had already gotten them from behind my back, and when I landed in New York they offered to downgrade me to executive producer and to forget about making this movie. I was stubborn enough to say no and I went and brought the rights to the other documentary and the other book, and I started a writing war.
In the beginning, they wanted to make the movie with Channing Tatum to play the Iceman, I didn’t believe in that and they sent me threat letters. After a while they had an argument with the book author that they auctioned the rights from and they split away from him. And this was all financed by Muammar Gaddafi.
The day before we went to Toronto to announce our movie, they announced theirs and they had the start date, which was earlier than us because we had to wait for the bank option, and for Michael Shannon to finish “Boardwalk” and “Superman.”
It was a lot of pressure until two months later there was a revolution in Libya. Gadaffi died, his son died, Obama froze all of their assets to the US and the company closed, and we got to make our Iceman.
source:
http://www.jspace.com/news/articles/talk...men-video/13902
