By: Robert Acosta
The Fighter took the world by storm last year, and has been featured in every major (and minor) award show, constantly being praised as or near the best movie of the year. So seeing as how Mark Wahlberg has been just as praised for his role, why wouldn't he want a sequel?
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Wahlberg talked about the prospects of a sequel to The Fighter:
"I got bit by the bug, and now I’m trying to plant the idea in everyone’s head that we should do — not five or six Fighters like Rocky — but one more because the big thing that Micky Ward was famous for was his three epic battles with Arturo Gatti. So we’re talking about possibly taking one more run at it.
Everybody had such an amazing experience making the movie that I can’t imagine they wouldn’t want to go back. But it’s still kind in the early stages."
This has been met with a lot of criticism but I gotta say, he makes a lot of sense. For any boxing fan, you know that Micky Ward's biggest fights were against Arturo Gatti. Sure, his journey to becoming a world champion is a great story, but the door was left wide open for a sequel. Now, in the last couple minutes of the film, Ward's fights with Gatti are mentioned but not shown.
Why not pursue this option? It would be a great story to tell, and since it was a trilogy of fights, it could meet the length of a full feature film.
Source: EW
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