Here's the story from The Playlist:The idea of a sequel to “The Fighter” is a cute thought. One has to assume high of the success off the picture (some seven odd years in the making) producer/actor Mark Wahlberg and director David O. Russell—who have worked together on three films so far, “Three Kings,” “I Heart Huckabees” and the aforementioned pugilist picture—were just shitcking ideas around in a celebratory fashion.
”’The Fighter 2,’ woooo! We got two Oscars tonight!” But if Wahlberg is still just coasting off the fumes of ecstasy, one has to assume they’re pretty frickin’ strong.
Echoing sentiments he already voiced earlier this year, Wahlberg said during the Spike Guys Choice Awards (via ComingSoon), “We left out the Aturo Gatti fights for a reason,” Wahlberg announced, after the picture won the “Guy Movie of the Year.” “Because that’s for ‘Fighter 2’. We’re not going to do ‘Fighter’ 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8, but we’re gonna do 2. We’re gonna do the Ward/Gatti trilogy.”
