Wahlberg could become DEPARTED

By: Patrick Sauriol
Date: Monday, January 24, 2005
Source: The Hollywood Reporter

PLANET OF THE APES remake star Mark Wahlberg is in negotiations to join the cast of Martin Scorsese's THE DEPARTED. If a contract can be reached Wahlberg will join Matt Damon and Leonardo DiCaprio in the movie, which is an American remake of the Hong Kong police thriller INFERNAL AFFAIRS.

Wahlberg would play a cop in the department of a Boston precinct that's friends with DiCaprio's character, an undercover officer knee-deep in with gangsters. Damon's character is one of the gangsters who has also gone "undercover" himself, getting inside the police department to try and find out who the mole in his criminal organization is.


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