Mark Wahlberg joins the Netflix game with Boston set detective story Spenser Confidential, reteaming with his Lone Survivor/Patriots Day/Deepwater Horizon/Mile 22 director Peter Berg. The ‘Berg partnership has been a strange mixed bag.
Starting out with a series of well-made docu-dramas of real-life disasters, the last film the pair made was Mile 22: a loud, violent, incoherent action movie that failed to kick off a franchise.
It looks like they’re trying out the franchise game again with a new home at Netflix and an adaptation of the adventures of Robert B.
Parker’s detective Spenser; a hot-headed former boxer, former cop turned private detective.Spenser (Wahlberg) has spent five years in prison for beating up a police captain he suspected
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