Martin Scorsese's beloved crime film left money on the table due to one brief subplot.
The Big Picture For director Martin Scorsese, The Departed represents the ultimate career breakthrough. Up until his 2006 crime drama, the legendary filmmaker had never been the recipient of a Best Director or Best Picture Oscar. Two of his Director nominations, Raging Bull and Goodfellas, were both lost to actors in their directorial debuts, Robert Redford and Kevin Costner, respectively. It appeared as though Scorsese was cursed from ever receiving that coveted statue.
A passing note in William Monahan's script amounted to a distribution crisis for Warner Bros, the studio behind The Departed. In the film, Costello's crew, having stolen microprocessors, intends to sell this advanced military hardware to an international crime syndicate on the black market.
Coincidentally, Disney, under their Touchstone division, landed in hot waters with China after the release of Kundun, a 1997 Martin Scorsese film about the life of the 14th Dalai Lama under Chinese oppression. Following the film's release, then-CEO Michael Eisner apologized to China's government for distributing the film, after he already sought to bury its release to secure the rights to build a theme park in Shanghai.
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