Vuonna 2006 saatiin Martin Scorsesen ohjaama elokuva The Departed, joka on eteläkorealaisen Infernal Affairs -leffan länsimaalainen versio. Nyt on käynyt ilmi, että näyttelijä Mark Wahlberg yhdessä käsikirjoittaja William Monahamin kanssa ehdottivat Scorseselle jatko-osaa. Pieleen kuitenkin meni komeasti. Asiasta kertoi KFC Radio.
"I went into a meeting with Bill Monahan at Warner Brothers to pitch the sequel to The Departed. He wanted me to go with him, and this was after it had won Best Picture, and big success and all that. And let's just say the pitch didn't go very well. He [Monahan] really didn't have anything fleshed out, but he's the kind of guy you just trust to go and write something. And so when we were working on the script for Cocaine Cowboys, American Desperado, [I] said, 'Bill, just go write'. He wrote The Gambler for me, you know, he's fantastic. He assumed that the studio would have the same kind of response that everybody else did; that they'd just let him go figure it out. But they [the studio] like to have things well-thought-out and planned. So, that pitch didn't go well"
Myöhemmät yritykset menivät nekin penkin alle. Projektin oletettiin olevan liian kallis toteuttaa, eikä Scorsese ollut asiasta lainkaan kiinnostunut.
