"Ocean's Thirteen" scribes Brian Koppelman and David Levien have been hired to adapt Don Winslow novel "The Winter of Frankie Machine" for Paramount Pictures reports Variety
"Frankie Machine" is about a mob hitman who gave up the game for a quiet life as the proprietor of a bait shop. When the son of a mob boss asks for his backup to help resolve a dispute with another Mafioso, he agrees, only to find he's been set up for a hit.
Robert De Niro is attached to star in the pic and is producing with his Tribeca Films company.
