Boondock Saints III Is a Go, Norman Reedus & Sean Patrick Flanery To Return

The Boondock Saints are officially back, with a third movie in the action-drama franchise moving ahead. Deadline reports that Troy Duffy is set to direct a Boondock Saints III, the latest entry in the franchise he created.

Norman Reedus & Sean Patrick Flanery, who starred in the first two films as Connor and Murphy MacManus, will be back for this new entry which will shoot next May once Flanery and Reedus are done with The Boys and The Walking Dead, respectively.

The Boondock Saints has not been a blockbuster franchise, but it has a devoted cult following. The first film was released in 1999 and became a big success once it hit home video. The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day arrived a decade later in 2009 and was not a financial success with $10.8 million worldwide against an $8 million budget.

Plans for a sequel TV series and/or a third film were originally in the works in the early to mid 2010s, until Flanery announced in 2017 that he and Reedus were not involved “in any way.” This was over disagreements that Duffy says have been patched up. The third film will pick up after the events of All Saints Day, which ended with the brothers in jail.

“Where we’re going is, the brothers are older,” Duffy said. “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.”