Robert De Niro is attached to star in the adaptation of Don Winslow´s "The Winter of Frankie Machine". 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 has been targeted for a hit, he gets back in the business.

"He did say that (he wouldn´t play a Mafia character)," Rosenthal told Daily Variety. "But along came Don Winslow, who created a perfect character. The lesson here is, never say never."

No writer is yet aboard to adapt.

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