{"id":437,"date":"2007-02-01T02:03:18","date_gmt":"2007-02-01T02:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/archives\/2007\/02\/01\/a-sequel-to-the-departed\/"},"modified":"2007-02-01T02:05:38","modified_gmt":"2007-02-01T02:05:38","slug":"a-sequel-to-the-departed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2007\/02\/01\/a-sequel-to-the-departed\/","title":{"rendered":"A sequel to The Departed?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Steve Gorman of Reuters reports that there could be a sequel<\/a> to The Departed<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

It’s hard to imagine a sequel to a movie like Oscar-nominated crime drama “The Departed,” which ends in such a spasm of violence that hardly any of the lead characters are left alive.<\/p>\n

But almost anything is possible in Hollywood when enough money is at stake. So it should come as no surprise that a follow-up to Martin Scorsese’s cops-and-gangsters thriller, the biggest box-office hit of his career, is already in the works.<\/p>\n

A person close to the situation said on Wednesday that the screenwriter behind “The Departed,” William Monahan, was outlining a film script that would bring back a surviving character played by Mark Wahlberg and introduce a new role envisioned for Robert De Niro.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The article goes on to say:<\/p>\n

According to sources cited by The Hollywood Reporter, Scorsese would need to approve any plans for a new film before it could move forward.<\/p>\n

Scorsese has never directed a sequel to any of his films, though his 1986 pool hall drama “The Color of Money” was a follow-up to 1961’s “The Hustler” directed by Robert Rossen.<\/p>\n

The original “Infernal Affairs” was followed by a “prequel,” involving events leading up to the first movie, and a third film that combined elements of the first two. According to The Reporter, the idea of a prequel for “The Departed” has not been ruled out.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If Scorcese wins the Oscar (which is looking highly likely) then I certainly wouldn’t rule this out completely.<\/p>\n

> Find out more about Infernal Affairs at Wikipedia<\/a>
\n> All Movie Guide entry for The Departed<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Steve Gorman of Reuters reports that there could be a sequel to The Departed: It’s hard to imagine a sequel to a movie like Oscar-nominated crime drama “The Departed,” which ends in such a spasm of violence that hardly any of the lead characters are left alive. But almost anything is possible in Hollywood when […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}