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“The Boondock Saints” was in theaters for only two weeks back in 1999. It wasn’t until its DVD release that teenage boys and men around the nation made the “shoot ‘em up” revenge flick a cult favorite.
Ten years later, “The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day” has finally been made, and director Troy Duffy had a lot to say about the decade-long process. The Daily Aztec sat down with Duffy, the film’s producer Chris Brinker, a former San Diego State student as well as one of the Saints himself, Sean Patrick Flanery.
Expletives were aplenty during the interview, proving that these guys like their four-letter words.
After the first film had a limited release because of the Columbine shooting, it failed to find that initial audience in the theaters. Duffy saw the sequel as “an honest chance to succeed,” adding that, “We’re going to now see what Boondock can really do and how many fans there are really out there.”
When describing the process of why it took so long to get made, the aspect of the screenwriting immediately came up. He had seen his fair share of failed sequels (“The Matrix” is an example, the original which came out the same year as “The Boondock Saints”) and was intent on doing it right, waiting for an idea fitting enough to bring the saints back into action.
Brinker elaborates on the situation by saying that as soon as a script was done, “There was interest from a distributor, so we found ourselves in a perfect position to go make this movie, not only the one he wanted to make but under terms that were acceptable.”
With “Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day” released in San Diego on Nov. 13, local fans of the original can now decide what they think of those terms in which Duffy made his sequel.
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