Robert De Niro is attached to star in the adaptation of Don Winslow's yet-to-be-published "The Winter of Frankie Machine" reports Variety.
Paramount Pictures has acquired the project with De Niro and Jane Rosenthal's Tribeca Films aboard to produce. De Niro would play a Mafia hit man who has given up the game to become the proprietor of a bait shop. When he finds out that he's been targeted for a hit, he gets back in the business.
If the package comes together and a movie gets made, it would bring De Niro back to a type of character that helped make him famous. He has said he wouldn't return to the Mafia world in film but then "Frankie Machine" came along. No writer is yet aboard to adapt, book is expected to hit shelves in 2006 from Knopf.
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