Mark Wahlberg Failed To Pitch The Departed 2 To Warner Bros.
Mark Wahlberg might have found success with the recently released live-action adaptation of Uncharted, but he wasn't so lucky when pitching a sequel to Martin Scorsese's Academy Award-winning film The Departed. the 50-year-old actor revealed that he tried to persuade Warner Bros. into greenlighting a sequel to the 2006 film but ultimately failed.
Upon its release, The Departed earned both commercial success and critical acclaim, grossing $291 million worldwide and winning four Academy Awards, with Wahlberg also nominated in the Best Supporting Actor category. In addition to him, the star-studded cast featured Leonardo DiCaprio, Jack Nicholson, Matt Damon, Martin Sheen, Alec Baldwin, and Vera Farmiga, among others.
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«I went into a meeting with [screenwriter] Bill Monahan at Warner Bros. to pitch the sequel to The Departed,» Wahlberg explained during an interview with KFC Radio. «And let’s just say the pitch didn’t go very well. He really didn’t have anything fleshed out, but he’s the kind of guy you just trust to go and write something. And so when we were working on the script for Cocaine Cowboys and American Desperado [I] said, ‘Bill, just go write. They like to have things well-thought-out and planned. It’d be a pretty good one.'» While Wahlberg did not go into detail as to what went wrong during the meeting, he did reveal that he and Monahan planned on bringing in renowned actors like Brad Pitt and Robert De Niro to join the cast.
Regarding the plot, The Departed 2 was set to center on Wahlberg's character, Dignam. In 2011, Monahan told /Film that his idea for the sequel was to set the story before, during, and after the events of The Departed. Of course,
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