Franco joins Del Toro in mafia film

James Franco will star in ‘The Iceman’, it was confirmed today.

The ‘127 Hours’ actor will play the role of assassin Mr Softee who acts as a mentor to the main character Richard Kuklinski (Michael Shannon) in the film based on the real life story of the notorious mafia contract killer who hid his crimes from the police by freezing his victim’s bodies to disguise the time of death.