Mark Wahlberg Goes to Boston Again for ‘Prisoners’

Published by Jeff Leins on March 6, 2009

Mark Wahlberg will return to his hometown again for Prisoners, a kidnap thriller set in Boston.  The 37-year-old actor received an Academy Award nomination for his performance as a native Bostonian in The Departed.

The screenwriter is brand new to Hollywood after signing with the talent agency Endeavor two weeks ago.  THR even went as far as to call it “one of the hottest scripts in Hollywood right now.”  No studio has signed a deal with the agency yet, who is looking to attach a director first.

It’s story centers on a Boston family man whose 6-year-old daughter and her best friend are kidnapped, but the father becomes a vigilante and kidnaps the person he suspects is responsible.

The article compares the story to Seven and Silence of the Lambs, but it sounds like Denzel Washington’s Man on Fire.  Vigilante justice isn’t anything new to movies, especially considering this year’s second-largest movie so far is Taken, about a rogue father trying to recover his kidnapped daughter.

Marky Mark made two particularly terrible movies last year, The Happening and Max Payne, and was nominated for a Razzie Award for “Worst Actor of 2008.”  (He somehow lost to Eddie Murphy.)  Maybe he can redeem himself with this movie and Peter Jackson’s The Lovely Bones.  Hey Mark, “say hello to your mother for me.”