After ‘Family Plan 2’s Success, Mark Wahlberg’s Next Action Movie Finally Finds a Home

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After ‘Family Plan 2’s Success, Mark Wahlberg’s Next Action Movie Finally Finds a Home

Rotham December 3, 2025 0 Comments

Mark Wahlberg smiling at the premiere of Netflix's The Union — Mark Wahlberg smiling at the premiere of Netflix’s The Union

Mark Wahlberg’s new sequel and its predecessor are both dominating streaming right now, but the action icon is already eyeing his next project. News broke yesterday afternoon that Wahlberg is attached to star in The Operator, a new action thriller following one of the CIA’s invisible clean-up men. Netflix has also acquired the film for distribution, meaning it will likely release straight on the streaming platform and not in theaters. Harrison Query wrote the script, but additional casting details are being kept under wraps. There is also no word on a potential production start date or a release window.

Wahlberg is also in line to produce The Operator, and it’s far from the first time he’s worked with Netflix. Wahlberg’s first collaboration with the streamer came in 2020 on Spenser Confidential, the action-comedy that co-stars Winston Duke. Two years later, he worked with Kevin Hart on Me Time, another comedy film that was written and directed by John Hamburg. His most recent team-up with the streaming goliath came just last year on The Union, which features mega-star Halle Berry in a leading role alongside Wahlberg. The Union spent weeks atop Netflix charts and was one of the biggest streaming movies of 2024.

Wahlberg’s latest action vehicles come in the form of Play Dirty and The Family Plan 2. The former is a heist thriller from director Shane Black, and the latter is an action-comedy sequel starring Game of Thrones veteran Kit Harington. The Family Plan 2 has been dominating streaming on Apple TV, and Prime Video has confirmed that Play Dirty is one of the streamer’s top 10 biggest movies ever. Wahlberg is something of a streaming champion when it comes to action movies.

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10 years ago, Mark Wahlberg and Will Ferrell teamed up for Daddy’s Home, the comedy movie pitting a hardcore dad against a softer stepdad. The film was a hit, grossing $242 million at the box office against a $50 million budget, which prompted the duo to return for the 2017 sequel, Daddy’s Home 2. The sequel added Mel Gibson as the father of Mark Wahlberg’s character and John Lithgow as the father of Will Ferrell’s character, but it earned only $180 million against a $70 million budget. Still enough to be considered a financial success, though. Both films are streaming on Netflix.

Stay tuned to Collider for more updates and coverage of Mark Wahlberg’s future projects.