Though only taking a supporting role in Scorsese’s The Departed, Wahlberg will soon be back in the lead.
First up is We Own the Night, alongside Robert Duvall, Joaquin Phoenix and Eva Mendes, with Wahlberg playing a New York nightclub manager trying to save his family from hitmen from the Russian mafia. After that, Wahlberg will turn hitman himself for director Antoine Fuqua (King Arthur) as an assassin set up as the fall-guy for the attempted murder of the US Presdent US President in Shooter.
The less said about the announced sequel to the abysmal remake of the Italian Job, provisionally titled The Brazilian Job, the better, but Wahlberg will be returning to do yet more damage to the memory of the Michael Caine classic some time in 2008.
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