Martin Scorsese revealed the creative process of The Departed put him under so much stress that he decided he didn't want to make more studio movies.
The Big Picture When you look at industry legends like Martin Scorsese, you’d think that they are the type of artist who can ask for anything and a studio would give it to them. However, in an interview with The New Yorker to promote his new movie Killers of the Flower Moon, the filmmaker revealed that that’s not the case at all.
The director revealed that making the Leonardo DiCaprio and Matt Damon thriller “was a knockdown, drag-out fight all the way from Day One to the end” because Warner Bros. wanted to interfere in the story – for one, they wanted at least one of the characters to survive in order to be able to make sequels .
"Winning the award was—don’t forget, it was thirty-seven years before an Oscar for Best Director, let alone Best Picture, which was a total surprise to me. But it’s a different Academy from when I was starting. But, for me, that award was, it was inadvertent. I had made 'The Departed' as a sign-off. I was leaving and just going to make some small films, I don’t know. And it just happened that 'The Departed' clicked.
Scorsese Didn't Want to Turn 'The Departed' Into a Franchise However, even with the overwhelmingly positive reaction from audiences, Scorsese decided that he couldn’t stick with studios if he wanted to retain creative control of his projects. The director states there’s no “ill will” between him and studio executives, but this is the reason why after his thriller Shutter Island, all of his films have “been independent to a certain extent.
"But the thing about it was that in a way, after Departed, it was like I knew I could not make films for the studios anymore, because at that time—there’s no ill will between us and the people who were at the studio at the time—but, even to this day, they wanted a franchise film, and I killed off the two guys. They wanted one to live. I didn’t want to make films that way. And I realized there was no way I could continue making films.
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