Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Di Niro as a mobster? I'm not buying it

From darkhorizons, Robert De Niro and Martin Scorsese will re-team for feature film adaptation of Don Winslow's "The Winter of Frankie Machine" reports Deadline Hollywood Daily.De Niro will play a Mafia hit man who has given up the game to become the proprietor of a bait shop. But he discovers that he's been targeted for a hit, and is forced to return to the business.Scorsese will direct the film under his deal with Paramount, whilst "Ocean's Thirteen" screenwriters Brian Koppelman and David Levien wrote the screenplay.

1 comment:

DKC said...

Why are they always, "forced to rejoin the business?" I mean, rationally I know there wouldn't be a movie otherwise, but can't they come up with SOME other plot point?

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