#TheBoondockSaints Prequel Headed To The Small Screen

Deadline is reporting that IM Global Television, the TV arm of feature-film financing, production and sales company IM Global, a subsidiary of Indian conglomerate Reliance ADA, has acquired rights to cult 1999 movie The Boondock Saints for a IMGTV_BlackTempTV series adaptation. 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 two of the films’ producers — Don Carmody of Don Carmody Television and Lloyd Segan of Piller-Segan — and D. Matt Geller, who brought the project to IM Global.

Original stars Norman Reedus and Sean Patrick 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 Flannery and 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. “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.”

The Boondock Saints has showed staying power. Following a limited U.S. release, the original film became a DVD bestseller via word-of-mouth. The movie franchise, which had long been eyeing a third installment, has garnered more than $260 million in worldwide theatrical and DVD sales and has a robust social media presence, with its stars and director counting more than 7 million total followers.

“Since its initial release more than 15 years ago, The Boondock Saints has become a true cultural phenomenon,” said IM Global TV president Mark Stern. “Troy is a consummate storyteller with a compelling vision for a series; the minute we heard it, we were hooked.”

The deal for a Boondock Saints series comes on the heels of IM Global TV, launched less than a year ago by co-founders Stuart Ford and Stern, unveiling its first development slate, which includes two literary adaptations, Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle and Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Darkover; crime drama Den Of Thieves starring Carla Gugino and produced by Kevin Spacey; real-time horror drama Horrorshow; and a miniseries about the 1906 San Francisco earthquake produced by Martin Campbell.

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