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"Critters 3" star Leonardo Di Caprio (sorry, sorry, had to do it – watch the Britney loving fourteen year old’s hit compose on their email servers) got blabbing to Empire about the U.S remake of "Infernal Affairs" that he’s attached to, as did the film’s helmer, Marty Scorsese.
“It’s a tough, tight, smaller thriller, in a way, about the underworld in Boston. Irish gangsters and the police,” Scorsese says of "The Departed", before seemingly admitting, surprisingly, that he hasn’t seen the original. “Based on a Chinese film, apparently, but very unique in and of itself.”
The film legend adds, “I must say I wasn’t interested in doing any more films dealing with the underworld,” he confirmed, “but the nature of the game that’s played between the characters, whether they’re police or gangsters, and the following through of each character to their ultimate fate is fascinating to me.”
Meanwhile, when DiCaprio was in town recently, the site got a few words from him on the project, in which he will play the film’s good-guy copper. “Yeah, if you wanna put labels on it,” he laughed. “As of yet I’m going undercover to be with the gangster. It’s certainly a great chess game – one crooked cop, one semi-good cop who infiltrates the Mob underworld. I’m looking very much forward to it.”
Matt Damon also stars in the film. To date, Di Caprio’s former "Growing Pains" co-star Alan Thicke hasn’t been asked to play the film’s kingpin villain.
