Matt Damon is ready to add a little more machismo to Martin Scorcese‘s flick The Departed, which was earlier called Infernal Affairs as it is based on the Chinese flick of the same name.
Damon will star alongside Leonardo DiCaprio, who apparently seems to have drawn Scorcese’s approval considering he has been in two of his films as of late and this will be his third.
The Chinese Infernal Affairs drew out two sequels and is a gangster pic, which will be reset in Boston amid Irish-American mobsters and the cops who are their nemeses.
Damon would play a gangster who has infiltrated the Boston police department as part of its cadet class and has been steadily rising through the ranks. DiCaprio will play a cop who’s been deep undercover inside the mob and is starting to come unglued. Each side works feverishly to flush the mole out, with deadly consequences.
