IM Global Television has acquired the rights to cult 1999 movie The Boondock Saints for a TV series adaptation, reports Deadline.
Troy Duffy, writer-director of the original film and its sequel, 2009’s The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day, will write the potential series — envisioned as a prequel to the movies — and will direct the first episode! He also will executive produce along with three of the films’ producers: Don Carmody of Don Carmody Television, Lloyd Segan of Piller-Segan and D. Matt Geller, who brought the project to IM Global. Reedus and Flannery are in early talks to come on board as co-executive producers.
Duffy has written a first episode and a bible for the project, which traces the origins of the vigilante brothers Connor and Murphy MacManus — played in the movies by Sean Patrick Flanery and Norman Reedus — as Irish immigrants in South Boston.
A search is underway for a showrunner to join the drama, which will be taken out, eyeing a straight-to-series order.
“For years I’ve been obsessed with telling a real origin story with ‘Boondock,’ and IM Global TV has stepped up,” Duffy said in a press release to Deadline. “Television is the perfect medium to explore these controversial characters on a much deeper level and to bring Boondock Saints to a whole new audience.”
“Since its initial release more than 15 years ago, The Boondock Saints has become a true cultural phenomenon,” said IM Global TV president Stern. “Troy is a consummate storyteller with a compelling vision for a series; the minute we heard it, we were hooked.”