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"Mark Wahlberg has said that he hopes to shoot The Fighter 2 soon.  The Contraband star revealed that director David O Russell is no longer involved with the project, telling The Playlist that he &amp;quot;had a problem with his draft&amp;quot;.  &amp;quot;We got to do that film before I get too old,&amp;quot; Wahlberg said. &amp;quot;So maybe in the next year, year and a half. We have to wait for the script, and then we&amp;#039;ll choose a director.&amp;quot; The actor went on to say that he would like Contraband director Baltasar Korm\u00C3\u00A1kur to consider taking on the job of helming The Fighter 2. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;d love to be involved with anything he does, either as an actor or a director,&amp;quot; Wahlberg said. &amp;quot;He&amp;#039;s so hands-on. He would even try to show me how to do the stunts, but he&amp;#039;s clumsy, so he would bang his head on the cement! And he&amp;#039;d be like, &amp;#039;Don&amp;#039;t worry&amp;#039;.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;He&amp;#039;s kooky,&amp;quot; he continued. &amp;quot;He can do anything. I&amp;#039;d love to do a fight scene with him someday - he looks like he can take me. I can see it his eyes, that glimmer, when you&amp;#039;re beating the crap out of somebody? He makes it real. So he&amp;#039;s a great man, a great friend, a great colleague. I want to be attached at the hip with him.&amp;quot; Wahlberg is currently at work on a basketball film starring Justin Bieber, a project he has described as &amp;quot;intuitive&amp;quot;. Watch a trailer for The Fighter below:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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