Boondock Saints III Announced – Norman Reedus, Sean Patrick Flanery and Director Troy Duffy Reunite

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According to Deadline, The Boondock Saints are reassembled and ready to go for a third installment. Director Troy Duffy and stars Norman Reedus and Sean Patrick Flanery have combined forces once again for Boondock Saints III, a new installment of the adventures of Irish brothers Connor and Murphy MacManus, who go about their hometown of Boston in an attempt to rid the city of crime and corruption while being hunted by an FBI agent, played by Willem Dafoe.

Impossible Dream Entertainment’s Shaun Redick and Yvette Yates Redick are producing the film alongside Don Carmody and Duffy. The film will begin shooting next May, once The Boys and The Walking Dead free up Flanery and Reedus, respectively.

When making the announcement, Troy Duffy said, “The fans have loved these characters for 20 years. They use terms of endearment like ‘the brothers’ or ‘the Boys.’ We left them in jail at the end of Boondock 2 and fans want to know what happened to them. Norman and Sean have been a driving force to keep this franchise on track and break some new ground story-wise. The fans have been waiting. They literally ask about it daily, and I am really excited to be working with Impossible Dream to make Boondock III a reality.”

Shaun Redick of Impossible Dream said: “It’s easy to see how this franchise has attracted and maintained its strong cult following all of these years when you dig into the mythology and execution of the storytelling. Troy, Norman and Sean have skillfully architected a killer story that fans will go crazy for, just as Yvette and I have. We love and appreciate that Boondock Saints has such a rabid fan base that is starving for anything and everything that builds on the franchise. We see fans tattoo the characters, sayings, and prayer on their bodies, they engage in digital and social media, and they travel enormous distances to meet and engage with the creators and stars of the films and comics. All this makes us excited to get to work with the team and deliver something distinct and special.”

Speaking of the unlikelihood of the success of the franchise, Troy Duffy had this to say: “You never know which films are going to hit, or what kind of special you got that makes for something people will gravitate towards. Nobody knows. The closest we got to someone knowing happened when we were having the first screenings for Boondock Saints, at the Sony lot, Paramount lot, Fox lot, and it was right after the Columbine incident. Columbine shut us down. They were pulling back on everything violent, especially with youthful violence, even ones that featured trench coats. We got caught right in the middle of that, distraught because everyone had worked so hard. We didn’t have anything to do with this tragic thing that happened in Colorado, and we felt, there is real life and there are movies, what is going on? A buyer told us. Hey, you guys have been blacklisted.” But yet, here they are, on the precipice of a third installment.