robert de niro turned down the role he was offered in ronin
ronin is a 1998 american spy actionthriller film directed by john frankenheimer  starring robert de niro  jean reno  natascha mcelhone  stellan skarsgrd  sean bean  and jonathan pryce  and written by david mamet lrb under the pseudonym richard weisz rrb from a screenplay by firsttime writer john david zeik