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:

We are pleased to announce that we have reached the incredible milestone of being half way through the first draft on our Comedy/Thriller Lost Case!

We started this draft exactly two weeks ago, and need to be finished exactly two weeks from today. Thus far, we are on track. We have written Act One and the first half of Act Two, and need to write the second half of Act two and Act three in the coming weeks.

Stay tuned to our projects page for an updated One-Sheet for Lost Case, and to our blog for news!

Yes, you read that correctly: Broken Forty is developing a contemporary Comedy-Thriller called Lost Case.

This is our newest project, conceived only a few weeks ago and although it is our newest, it is quickly becoming one of our favourites. We don’t want to post too many details as everything is extremely subject to change at this point.

One thing we can tell you, though, is that it will feature cops, kids,  mobsters, and crooked corporate executives all scrambling to get their hands on the Lost Case.