Cult movie The Boondock Saints is set to be adapted for a new TV drama series.
The 1999 film starred Sean Patrick Flanery and The Walking Dead‘s Norman Reedus as brothers who become vigilantes to rid their native Boston, Massachusetts of crime and evil.
It developed a cult following among film fans and a sequel, The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day, was released in 2009.
Now writer/director Troy Duffy is working on a prequel story for the franchise for production firm IM Global Television, and he will take charge of the first episode.
Flanery and Reedus are in talks to join the project as co-executive producers alongside Duffy.
In a statement announcing the news, Duffy writes, “For years I’ve been obsessed with telling a real origin story with Boondock, and IM Global TV has stepped up. 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.”
