The Departed’s Surprising Ending Made WB Bosses “Very Unhappy,” Scorsese Says

The Oscar-winning mobster film The Departed is a contemporary traditional, and considered one of Martin Scorsese’s greatest movies. Predictably, the studio behind it wished to make it a franchise. Nevertheless, the film ends with deaths of its two most important characters, and that apparently made the studio bosses at Warner Bros. “very unhappy,” based on Scorsese.

He advised GQ that, “What they wished was a franchise. It wasn’t a few ethical subject of an individual dwelling or dying.”

Within the film, Leonardo DiCaprio’s character is shockingly killed close to the conclusion as he steps out of an elevator. Matt Damon’s character dies a bit later when Mark Wahlberg’s character tracks him down and shoots him in his dwelling. Scorsese advised GQ that he remembers a check screening for the film the place everybody appeared to take pleasure in what occurred besides the studio bosses.

“Then the studio guys walked out and so they had been very unhappy, as a result of they only did not need that film. They wished the franchise. Which suggests: I am unable to work right here any extra,” Scorsese stated.

Certainly, Scorsese by no means labored with Warner Bros. once more, however he did make one other huge studio film, Shutter Island, with Paramount. Scorsese now funds his motion pictures independently, with Paramount distributing. His subsequent film, Killers of the Flower Moon, will launch in theaters by means of Paramount and in a while Apple TV.

The Departed received Greatest Image on the 2007 Academy Awards, giving Scorsese his first Oscar win after beforehand being nominated for Raging Bull, The Final Temptation of Christ, Goodfellas, Gangs of New York, and The Aviator.

Mark Wahlberg, who performed employees sergeant Sean Dignam in The Departed, pitched a sequel concept for The Departed that includes Robert De Niro and Brad Pitt, but it surely by no means materialized. There have been plans for a Departed TV present, too, but it surely additionally by no means got here collectively.

Scorsese’s The Departed relies on the 2002 film Infernal Affairs.