Norman Reedus and Sean Patrick Flanery will reunite as Murphy and Connor MacManus in a third instalment of The Boondock Saints.
Deadline reports that original director and writer Troy Duffy will also rejoin the stars for The Boondock Saints III, with a script co-written by Flanery.
Produced by Impossible Dream Entertainment, The Boondock Saints III will pick up after the events of the second film.
"The fans have loved these characters for 20 years," Duffy shared with Deadline. "They use terms of endearment like 'the Brothers' or 'the Boys.' We left them in jail at the end of Boondock 2 and fans want to know what happened to them.
"Norman and Sean have been a driving force to keep this franchise on track and break some new ground story-wise. The fans have been waiting. They literally ask about it daily, and I am really excited to be working with Impossible Dream to make Boondock III a reality."
Duffy continued, "Where we're going is, the brothers are older. They are coming out into a brand new world that is not like the one they left. They are at odds. One wants to continue, the other doesn't. There's a new enemy out there, not like the traditional ones they've faced. That's the thing that is timely about this one.
"Without getting too deep into the story, what it is is, two boys coming out of prison after staying there much longer than expected, to a brand new world. They're at odds on whether to push forward. But the type of people we face today in our society, is unlike any we've faced before. And that brings them together and they say, we cannot turn our backs on this."
The Boondock Saints III is expected to begin shooting next year, leaving Reedus to wrap work on the final season of The Walking Dead, and Flanery to shoot the third season of The Boys.
Deadline reports that original director and writer Troy Duffy will also rejoin the stars for The Boondock Saints III, with a script co-written by Flanery.
Produced by Impossible Dream Entertainment, The Boondock Saints III will pick up after the events of the second film.
"The fans have loved these characters for 20 years," Duffy shared with Deadline. "They use terms of endearment like 'the Brothers' or 'the Boys.' We left them in jail at the end of Boondock 2 and fans want to know what happened to them.
"Norman and Sean have been a driving force to keep this franchise on track and break some new ground story-wise. The fans have been waiting. They literally ask about it daily, and I am really excited to be working with Impossible Dream to make Boondock III a reality."
Duffy continued, "Where we're going is, the brothers are older. They are coming out into a brand new world that is not like the one they left. They are at odds. One wants to continue, the other doesn't. There's a new enemy out there, not like the traditional ones they've faced. That's the thing that is timely about this one.
"Without getting too deep into the story, what it is is, two boys coming out of prison after staying there much longer than expected, to a brand new world. They're at odds on whether to push forward. But the type of people we face today in our society, is unlike any we've faced before. And that brings them together and they say, we cannot turn our backs on this."
The Boondock Saints III is expected to begin shooting next year, leaving Reedus to wrap work on the final season of The Walking Dead, and Flanery to shoot the third season of The Boys.
