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It’s been close to 25 years since The Boondock Saints hit theaters before eventually achieving cult classic status, and the production company behind the John Wick franchise is apparently hoping to recapture the magic with a new installment.
It would be a stretch to call The Boondock Saints a good movie, and it seemed like it was going to be a forgotten box office flop after initially earning just $30,000 on a $6 million budget when it hit theaters at the start of 2000 (although it’s obviously worth noting it received an extremely limited release that transpired in the immediate wake of Columbine).
However, the movie earned a second life when it was released on DVD and ultimately racked up more than $50 million in sales (on top of the undoubtedly sizeable sum it was able to generate with the help of the posters that were ubiquitous in dorm rooms in the decade or so after it came out).
It’s kind of amazing The Boondocks Saints was ever made in the first place based on the documentary that chronicled the tumultuous production defined by the ego of director Troy Duffy, a largely unknown musician who’d never written or helmed a film before he was given the bulk of the creative control after selling the script for $300,000.
Norman Reedus and Sean Patrick Flanery reprised their roles as the Irish brothers committed to doling out vigilante justice in Boston in the critically panned sequel that came out in 2009, and it didn’t seem like a stretch to assume we’d seen the last of them in those titular roles.
However, according to Deadline, the duo is gearing up to don their all-black outfits for a third time, as Thunder Road—the production company behind the John Wick films and The Town—has started working on a new installment that’s been described as a “universe expansion.”
There’s no timeline for the project, which is currently in search of a director (the outlet reports Duffy isn’t being considered, although he “plans to write a series of books about the Saints”).
There’s no telling if Willem Dafoe will be returning as the world’s most eccentric FBI agent, but here’s to hoping that ends up being the case.