The Oscar-winning mobster movie The Departed is a modern classic, and one of Martin Scorsese's best films. Predictably, the studio behind it wanted to make it a franchise. However, the movie ends with deaths of its two main characters, and that apparently made the studio bosses at Warner Bros. "very sad," according to Scorsese.

He told GQ that, "What they wanted was a franchise. It wasn't about a moral issue of a person living or dying."

In the movie, Leonardo DiCaprio's character is shockingly killed near the conclusion as he steps out of an elevator. Matt Damon's character dies a bit later when Mark Wahlberg's character tracks him down and shoots him in his home. Scorsese told GQ that he remembers a test screening for the movie where everyone seemed to enjoy what happened except the studio bosses.