It appears if Mr. De Niro had his way The Good Shepherd would have two follow up films. We get wind of his desire thanks to an interview excerpt from our friends at ropeofsilicon:
De Niro said he would like to make two sequels to CIA Cold War drama “The Good Shepherd” — one bringing the action forward from 1961 to 1989, the other following its hero, Edward Wilson (Matt Damon), up to the present day.
Although he is not working on research for the concluding parts of the hoped-for trilogy, De Niro said being in central Europe offered a good opportunity to begin thinking about the material. “I had not been planning to do research on that while here, but it is a good idea,” he said.
Just after I commended Rogen for turning away a Superbad sequel, we have De Niro pitching a Good Shepherd trilogy. Now I must come clean and announce that I haven’t seen The Good Shepherd so I have no idea if it’ s suited for a trilogy. For those of you that have seen the film; is this a trilogy that you would like to see, or should they leave well enough alone?
The source article goes on to mention that no writers were mentioned, and no one else seems to know about follow up films other that De Niro. This very well could just be wishful thinking on his part. When wishful thinking is announced in front of the press in this day and age – it now circles the globe tenfold.
Eventually it will get to the point where a celebrity will say “I hate sandwiches” and there will be a round table discussion on CNN.
