Do you want to play a role in bringing the 10th Anniversary Celebration of the ORIGINAL Boondock Saints to the big screen in movie theatres nationwide for an exclusive one-night event around St. Patrick’s Day 2010? If so, demand that it come to the big screen in your hometown!…
“I’m coming soon… I’m coming soon… don’t move, don’t move… Oh my God, you moved! Ahhh Ahhh!”
Yes, this interview begins with a rather adolescent take on our site’s good name, and it ends with a laugh, so you know you’re dealing with a filmmaker who knows how to have a good time.
That filmmaker is Troy Duffy, who became a household name in Tinseltown when Miramax paid the Boston bartender $450,000 to write and direct his debut film with a budget of $15 million dollars, making him the kind of rags-to-riches success story the media revels in. That was 1997. Two years later, the film had been completed for less than half that budget and without the participation of Miramax, who had pulled out due to creative conflicts with Duffy. The independent distributor who purchased the movie The Boondock Saints barely released it in theaters and it marched solemnly to the direct-to-video graveyard.
Typically, this is where the Wikipedia entry ends, possibly with addendums like “Troy Duffy has not been interviewed since 1999, and currently works as a bartender in Boston.”
However, The Boondock Saints, like its main characters, was not a movie that simply lays down and dies and its director has not gone gentle into that good night. When “Saints” was… READ MORE
A thank you message to the fans from writer/director Troy Duffy and the two stars of the film Norman Reedus and Sean Patrick Flanery. Thanks to you – Boondocksaints II is going into wide release on November 25th!
Get your Boondock Saints II Posters at Blockbuster while you can. They are on sale!!! Limited suppies so visit Blockbuster this weekend to purchase the official poster for the sequel!!! Thanks for all the support.
After 10 years, the Boondocks Saints have come out of hiding, and Sean Patrick Flanery says all your questions about the vigilante fraternal twins will be answered in the new film.
However, if you need more answers, Flanery will take your questions after the screening of The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day at 7:50 tonight at the Edwards Marq*E Theater, 7600 Katy Freeway.
Flanery, who grew up in Sugar Land and often returns to visit his parents, stars as Connor MacManus. In the 1999 film, Connor teams with his brother Murphy (Norman Reedus) to rid Boston of evil. It’s a bloody job.
When the sequel opens, the violent brothers have been living undercover in Ireland with their father, Il Duce (Billy Connolly). The murder of a beloved priest brings the Saints back to Boston. They find a comrade, played by Clifton Collins Jr. (Star Trek), and dodge an FBI operative, played by Julie Benz (Dexter).
The Boondock Saints, Sean Patrick Flanery and Norman Reedus, and writer/director Troy Duffy talk about The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day on the Preston and Steve Show on 93.3 WMMR
After a 10-year wait that felt like an eternity, the moment that Irish Americans have been waiting for has finally arrived: the Boondock Saints are back with a bang.
“Boondock Saints II” has finally made it to the big screen, and the film’s
legions of fans have been showing up in their thousands to the sequel’s
premiers… READ MORE and WATCH VIDEO
