Martin Scorsese’S The departure it was a great movie and ended with the deaths of many of the main characters. Well, Warner Bros. didn’t like the idea of killing off all the main characters and wanted the director to spare one of the two main characters so they could make a sequel.
During an interview with GQ, Scorsese revealed: “What they wanted was a franchise. It wasn’t about a moral issue of one person living or dying.” The director went on to say that while audiences at early test screenings appreciated the way the film played out, the studio people were “very sad, because they just didn’t want that movie.”
The two main characters of the film were Matt Damon as Colin Sulivan, a mole for the Irish mafia and Leonardo Dicaprio as William Costagan Jr., who was an undercover officer. After a series of twisting, wild, and violent events, the film ends with the deaths of both characters.
He went on to explain, “They wanted the franchise. Which means: I can’t work here anymore.” The director then made Shutter Island with Paramount Pictures, which he describes as his “last studio film.” Since then, he has sought independent financing for his films, even though Paramount still releases them theatrically.
Now, the studio could have made a sequel Mark Wahlberg, Sergeant Digman, survived the ordeal. Previously he had proposed a sequel to the studio with the screenwriter William “Bill” Monahan and hopefully their concept has been presented Robert De Niro AND Brad Pittbut it was never successful.
Speaking about the camp, Wahlberg said: “Let’s just say the camp didn’t go very well. [Bill] he didn’t really have anything concrete, but he’s the kind of person you trust to go and write something. And so, while we were working on the script of Cocaine cowboy AND Desperate American, [I] he said, ‘Bill, go write.’ They like to have things well thought out and planned.”
The actor added: “He thought the studio would have the same response as everyone else and let him try to figure it out. But they like to have things well thought out and planned out, so that proposal didn’t go well.
As for the concept, the film is said to be set “before, during and after the action of the first film.” In the end, The departure it’s a movie in its own right, and that’s great! It didn’t really need a sequel.
by Joey Paur
Source: Geek Tyrant
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