Mark Wahlberg attached to Boston-set ‘Prisoners’

Mark Wahlberg, a Dorchester native who has gone on to star in a slew of big-budget Hollywood flicks including the recent “Max Payne,” may return to his Boston roots with previously unknown Aaron Guzikowski’s greenlit script “Prisoners.”

The project, generating major buzz on the Left Coast that has piqued the interest of nearly every major studio in town according to the Hollywood Reporter, centers around a Boston father whose 6-year-old daughter and her best friend are kidnapped. The film’s protagonist, a role reportedly being eyed by Wahlberg, takes matters into his own hands by kidnapping the man he suspects is responsible.

Endeavor, who represents Wahlberg, snapped up the script a few weeks ago. Insiders say the tone of the revenge-fantasy flick is a cross between “Silence of the Lambs” and “Seven.”

Wahlberg, who plays an equally distressed father in Peter Jackson’s upcoming “Lovely Bones,” was planning to make a homecoming with the on-and-off again Darren Aronofsky flick chronicling the early days of boxer “Irish” Micky Ward called “The Fighter.”

Will Wahlberg take "Prisoners" instead of jumping into the ring with "The Fighter" for his Boston return?

Loaded Gun will keep you posted.

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