A movie starring Mark Wahlberg as a detective in Boston? What will they think of next? Deadline and\u2026<\/b>
\nA movie starring Mark Wahlberg as a detective in Boston? What will they think of next?
Deadline and Variety reported Tuesday that Netflix has reached an agreement with Wahlberg, his frequent collaborator Peter Berg, and the estate of author Robert B. Parker to produce \u201cWonderland.\u201d The film will center around Spenser, a wisecracking Boston private investigator who is the protagonist of Parker\u2019s series of detective novels, the 1980s ABC show \u201cSpenser: For Hire,\u201d and several TV movies.
Wahlberg will play Spenser, while Berg will direct the film, an adaptation of the book \u201cRobert B. Parker\u2019s Wonderland.\u201d After Springfield native Parker passed away in Cambridge in 2010, his \u201cSpenser\u201d series was continued by author Ace Atkins, who has written seven titles to date, including \u201cWonderland.\u201d
The novel begins with Spenser eating Kelly\u2019s Roast Beef on Revere Beach with his old friend Henry, who complains that hired thugs are putting pressure on him to sell his condo.
According to Deadline, \u201cThe movie will differ from the novel, in that it begins with Spenser emerging from a prison stretch, stripped of his private investigator license. Here, he gets pulled back into the underbelly of the Boston crime world when he uncovers the truth about a sensational murder and the twisted conspiracy behind it.\u201d
No timeline has been announced for \u201cWonderland.\u201d The film will be Wahlberg and Berg\u2019s fifth collaboration, following \u201cLone Survivor,\u201d \u201cDeepwater Horizon,\u201d \u201cPatriots Day,\u201d and the upcoming \u201cMile 22,\u201d which hits theaters Aug. 17.<\/p>\n

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