Richard “Iceman” Kuklinski is probably the most proficient and feared killer in the history of New York. Not some bumfuck town in the middle of nowhere, New York City. Claiming to have killed over two hundred people by methods ranging from guns to poison to bare-handed beatings because he “liked the exercise”, Richard Kuklinski terrorized the criminal underground for forty years until his eventual capture. Now he’s the subject of two competing biopics. One of them must disappear. Seems like the perfect subtext to Kuklinski’s life.

According to Deadline, the first project from Nu Image would star Michael Shannon as the Iceman with Benicio Del Toro and possibly James Franco in support. The second is from Natural Selection and has Mickey Rourke attached to play the title role. How do you even pick between these two projects? Michael Shannon owns on Boardwalk Empire, but this role has Rourke’s name written all over it. But does the presence of Benicio del Toro and maybe James Franco overcome that disparity? Maybe.

Not since Capote have two rival films gone the entire distance without one of them folding. We all know how that worked out. We’ll see which one of these two blinks first.