Writer/director Troy Duffy, famous for introducing the world to the cult sensation of The Boondock Saints, tweeted out the first page to his newest script The Boondock Saints III recently.
The Boondock Saints had a long road to becoming the nationally recognized success it is today. In the late 90s, then bartender and low level rocker Troy Duffy was offered a very generous deal by Miramax and Harvey Weinstein to make his first feature film. He was to be given $300,000 for his script, a $15 million budget along with final cut and final casting decisions and Weinstein even offered to buy Duffy the bar he worked in so they could co-own it together. The wannabe filmmaker’s overnight success rocked movie news outlets everywhere.
However, it wasn’t long before the film deal fell apart and Duffy was nearly ostracized from Hollywood for his antics (shown in a rather biased fashion in the documentary Overnight) and for his film’s religious overtones and politically incorrect ways.
The man managed to make his movie, but it was blacklisted from theaters after the Columbine school shootings. Despite this, it went on to become a cult classic earning around $100 million on home video and it continues to sell over a million copies a year.
After a lawsuit was settled for home video profits, Duffy followed up his classic with a sequel which was released in 2009. Since then, fans have been pining for a follow up and capper to the vigilante trilogy. The first solid news about a third Boondock Saints film came the other day when Duffy used his Twitter account to reveal the first page to the script of the third Boondock movie to his fans.
The opening page reveals a lot of questions about the third film since it opens with a scene set in 1997 meaning the film will examine a time in the brothers’ lives before the original movie.
There’s still no official word yet on when we will ever see the third Boondock movie, but one must assume Duffy is going to announce something official soon if he was willing to tweet out a nugget of the script to fans.
Originally published January 29, 2014. Updated April 11, 2018.
