Legendary director Martin Scorsese recalls Warner Bros. pushing for sequels to 2006’s The Departed.Promoting his latest effort Killers of the Flower Moon in an exclusive interview with GQ, Scorsese got candid about his experience with the studio in helming the Leonardo DiCaprio and Matt Damon-led crime thriller. While the movie was always intended to have a dark ending that results in a dark fate for its stars, Warner Bros. begged the Oscar-winning filmmaker to spare at least one of them for sequels. “What they wanted was a franchise,” Scorsese explained. “It wasn’t about a moral issue of a person living or dying.”The Departed was a remake of the highly successful Hong Kong thriller 2002’s Infernal Affairs starring Andy Lau and Tony Leung. Set in South Boston, Departed starred DiCaprio as an undercover cop assigned to infiltrate a local Irish mobster (Jack Nicholson) who has a mole detective (Damon) in the police department. In the climax of the movie, Damon kills his mentor after learning of his FBI informant status and meets DiCaprio who learns of Damon as a leak. The movie ends with DiCaprio killed before he can apprehend Damon who in turn is shot dead by another cop (Mark Wahlberg).RELATED: Killers of the Flower Moon Star Broke Martin Scorsese’s Casting Habits
Legendary director Martin Scorsese recalls Warner Bros. pushing for sequels to 2006’s The Departed.
Promoting his latest effort Killers of the Flower Moon in an exclusive interview with GQ, Scorsese got candid about his experience with the studio in helming the Leonardo DiCaprio and Matt Damon-led crime thriller. While the movie was always intended to have a dark ending that results in a dark fate for its stars, Warner Bros. begged the Oscar-winning filmmaker to spare at least one of them for sequels. “What they wanted was a franchise,” Scorsese explained. “It wasn’t about a moral issue of a person living or dying.”
The Departed was a remake of the highly successful Hong Kong thriller 2002’s Infernal Affairs starring Andy Lau and Tony Leung. Set in South Boston, Departed starred DiCaprio as an undercover cop assigned to infiltrate a local Irish mobster (Jack Nicholson) who has a mole detective (Damon) in the police department. In the climax of the movie, Damon kills his mentor after learning of his FBI informant status and meets DiCaprio who learns of Damon as a leak. The movie ends with DiCaprio killed before he can apprehend Damon who in turn is shot dead by another cop (Mark Wahlberg).
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