The filmmaker tells why he dropped Warner Bros. Who wanted to make his film a franchise.
In an offensive widely taken up by the media around the world against current cinema culture, Martin Scorsese expressed his rejection of superhero films and more generally film franchises, which has become the obsession of the studios.
In this same interview with GQ, published in September 2023, the director says that he was thus blurred with the leaders of the Warner Bros. studio. who wanted to do Infiltrated 2 and transform your 2006 film – Adaptation of the Hong Kong thriller Infernal Affairs – in a franchise. To do this, you had to change the end of The Departed !
To wait until the rebroadcasting of this successful thriller worn by Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson and Mark Wahlberg, this evening on Arte, we set off again the filmmaker’s words about this aborted project. Watch out for spoilers : The following precisely describes the fate of certain key characters in infiltrates.
Warner Bros. wanted one of the two main characters – Billy Costigan Jr. (played by Leonardo DiCaprio) or Colin Sullivan (played by Matt Damon) survive in order to make a follow -up Infiltrated with one or the other. The studio therefore asked Scorsese to change its end. A request that upset the director:
“What they wanted was a franchise. It was not a moral question, concerning the life or death of such a character.”
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Annoyed, Martin Scorsese decided to keep its original end with the death of Costigan and Sullivan. After the test projection, the public was “ravi“From the final blood bath, according to the filmmaker. But the people in the studio, much less:
“The guys from the studio started from the screening and they were very sad, because they just didn’t want this film. What they wanted was a franchise. What meant I couldn’t take it anymore Work with them now … “
In infiltrates, Martin Scorsese announces each death with an “x”
After doing Aviator et Infiltrated With Warner Bros., Martin Scorsese was then sought by funding from independent productions companies, most often distributed by Paramount. Then he was seeing Netflix for The Irishman and recently Apple Studios for Killers of the Flower Moon.
Note that if the firm insisted that Scorsese turns Infiltrated 2the studio did not, however, validated the following idea proposed by one of his actors, Mark Wahlberg, who wanted to imagine a film taking place both before, during and after the action of the first part. He would have liked to turn it With Brad Pitt And Robert de Niro, he said in 2022.
Infernal Affairs: The trilogy that inspired infiltrates in Martin Scorsese
