With The Bear the one series everyone is talking about right now, the future for creator Christopher Storer is on a lot of minds. So what’s next? It’s not another TV series, but hitman feature film adaptation that has had Martin Scorsese, Michael Mann, and William Friedkin attached at various stages.
Deadline reports Storer will direct The Winter of Frankie Machine, based on the Don Winslow novel about a retiring San Diego hitman who takes one last job mediating a deal between Detroit and Los Angeles crime families, only to realize the whole thing is a trap set for him.
When Scorsese was aboard he had Robert De Niro lined up for the lead role, but that all changed when The Irishman came along. Now we’ll get to see what Storer, who is red-hot right now, can do with the same screenplay by Brian Koppelman and David Levien that Scorsese would’ve used.
