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Will there be a sequel to Netflix's 'Spenser Confidential'?

Mark Wahlberg doesn't consider himself a big sequel guy. In his 25-plus-year acting career, the actor has made just three sequels: "Ted 2," "Transformers: The Last Knight" and "Daddy's Home 2." "I always like to find the next new thing to do, and I always want to do the complete opposite of the last thing I did," he says.

With his new Netflix action-comedy "Spenser Confidential," though, the franchise question rises to the fore. Available via streaming, the film has Wahlberg taking on the role of the late author Robert B. Parker's flinty Boston private eye Spenser, a much-loved character who, since his introduction in 1973,

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