Variety reports that Amazon will team with Warner Bros. Television to co-develop a TV series adaptation of the Martin Scorsese film THE DEPARTED. Jason Richman is set to write the pilot and executive produce the project.
Set in present-day Chicago, the newest version will center on "a young cop who infiltrates a Latino gang in Chicago and battles the gang's own plant in the police department. Like the film, the television adaptation will also be inspired by the 2002 Hong Kong crime thriller "Infernal Affairs."
Roy Lee, Michael Connolly, Graham King, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Sarah Esberg, Tripp Vinson, Doug Davison, and Gianni Nunnari will executive produce.
The 2006 film featured an all-star cast consisting of Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg, Martin Sheen, Ray Winstone, Vera Farmiga, and Alec Baldwin. The film won four Academy Awards including Best Editing, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Picture, and Best Director and earned over $289 million at the global box office.
