This may have been announced some time ago, but this is certainly news to me. Troy Duffy is bringing us the sequel to the 1999 film Boondock Saints a solid ten years after the fact. Now while the original movie was alright, I never found it to be the classic action movie that it was hailed to be. I felt it was decent, and mildly entertaining.

What is really noteworthy for me, is the fact that Hollywood is, once again, relying on past successes to continue a franchise. Can’t Mr. Duffy write a new story that can compete in today’s feature film market? I’m sure he can, but the problem is with the big Hollywood studios: they don’t want anything new. At least that is how it seems to me, a Hollywood outsider.

I just wish the glory days of the early nineties’ spec script gold-rush would come back. The days where writing a good creative story was enough to get a sale in the ‘wood. Now it seems the only way to break in to the industry is write the tenth remake of the same old comic book story. Hulk, anybody?

Here’s a trailer: