A Departed sequel/prequel?

[Dark Donnie]

http://uk.movies.ign.com/articles/761/761975p1.html




At least if Scorsese doesn't direct they are aiming high with his replacement

that sounds awesome....if Scorcese opts out Mann would be an awesome replacement. I like the sound of it

 

[L0ngsh0t]

Holy ****!!!!!!!!! Michael ****ing Mann reuniting with deniro and making a mob movie. Bring it on.

Well if DeNiro is playing a Senator, it really wouldn't be a mob movie would it

I am less of a Mann fan when he makes his cop movies, Collateral, and Miami Vice are okay, Heat is great, but I think his best work is like the Insider and Ali

 

[Triadkd]

Deniro isnt the only person that can play a mobster. He is a corrupt politician and im sure he will some kind of working relationship with the mafia.

 

[L.A.]

Holy ****!!!!!!!!! Michael ****ing Mann reuniting with deniro and making a mob movie. Bring it on.

I would have love to see him direct the original Departed!

 

[Secret_Riddle]

Id love to see the prequal be by Mann, then the continuation be by Scorsesse. What an awesom package that would be.

 

[Batman Beyond]

If DeNiro is to be in a Departed sequel, Scorsese should do it.

And also, I like an idea that was expressed some time ago, of DeNiro playing Leo DiCaprio's father in a prequel story, with Nicholson also cameoing as Costello. I think there's potential there - Costello says "He (Costigan's father) could've been anything he wanted", implying a greatness in his character.

Come on, get DeNiro as the father, and Joe Pesci as Costigan's uncle and you got another treat! By Martin Scorsese, of course.

 

[Dark Donnie]

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Mark Wahlberg Talks Aronofsky’s The Fighter, The Departed 2 and 3
Posted on Monday, June 30th, 2008 at 12:25 pm by: Hunter Stephenson



According to Mark Wahlberg, Darren Aronofsky’s The Fighter will begin filming this October. Awesome. You may remember that the film, a biopic on badass pugilist “Irish” Micky Ward, gained considerable traction in the press last year when Wahlberg and others compared it to a “new Raging Bull.” Brad Pitt later signed on to co-star as Ward’s brother/trainer, which was a welcome surprise after his casting debacle on Aronofsky’s The Fountain.

“I’ve been training for two years now. I’m ready,” Wahlberg told MTV. “I want to look like a champ, not a chump. …I want to do [Ward] proud. The guy did everything I wish I could have done. He came from nothing, went on to win the world title with all the odds stacked against him.”

Ward fought throughout the mid-’80s and ’90s, but he’s best remembered for three battles with Arturo Gotti in the early Oughts, two of which went down as the greatest in the history of the sport. Ward lost each one, but, well click here to for a refresher. Earlier this year, Aronofsky (Pi, Requiem for a Dream) wrapped up filming on the white trash indie epic, The Wrestler, starring Mickey Rourke (release date TBA), so if all goes as planned, we’ll be getting one helluva manly double feature that will turn us all into jittery pacifists. Somebody combine the Requiem for a Dream score with the YouTube link above and cause some goosebumps.

Wahlberg also updated on The Departed 2…

“They’re [still] developing it,” Wahlberg sighed. “If it can be better than the first, then great. I’ll be all for it. I’m not interested in going for the paycheck. I love ‘Godfather 2’ but, then again, I don’t like ‘Godfather 3.’”

Everybody wants to be The Godfather 2 these days, eh? Nothing revelatory in the quote above, but he also mentions the possibility of a Departed 3 (a prequel a la Infernal Affairs 2) as well…

“We may do another one, because it’s based on a Hong Kong film ['Infernal Affairs'], and there is a trilogy. So we may do a sequel with a new cast, and a prequel and bring back the rest of the guys…”

That would make for some heavy dream team assembling.

Discuss: Can Aronofsky/Wahlberg/Pitt reach the greatness of Raging Bull? Against tough odds, Infernal Affairs was a solid trilogy—do you think The Departed 2 and The Departed 3 will ever happen?