Watch: Michael Shannon Takes Many, Many Lives in New Trailer for ‘The Iceman’ (VIDEO)

"I guess God's busy."

Michael Shannon has delivered many an intense line, but this one, which closes the new trailer for "The Iceman," has an especially dead-throated tone to it. "Iceman" screens at the Venice, Telluride and Toronto film festivals these next two weeks, and Shannon is at his chilly best playing a real-life contract killer in Ariel Vromen's period thriller.

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