<a id="auto-tag_im-global-television" href="http://deadline.com/tag/im-global-television/">IM Global Television</a>, the TV arm of feature-film financing, production and sales company <a href="http://www.deadline.com/tag/im-global">IM Global</a>, a subsidiary of Indian conglomerate Reliance ADA, has acquired rights to cult 1999 movie <em><a href="http://deadline.com/tag/the-boondock-saints/" id="auto-tag_the-boondock-saints" data-tag="the-boondock-saints">The Boondock Saints</a> </em>for a <img scale="0" class="alignleft wp-image-1201439700" src="https://pmcdeadline2.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/imgtv_blacktemp.jpg?w=301&h=202&crop=1" alt="IMGTV_BlackTemp" height="142" width="212">TV series adaptation. <a href="http://deadline.com/tag/troy-duffy/" id="auto-tag_troy-duffy" data-tag="troy-duffy">Troy Duffy</a>, writer-director of the original film and its sequel, 2009’s <em>The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day,</em> will write the potential series — envisioned as a prequel to the movies — and will direct the first episode. He also will executive produce along with two of the films’ producers — Don Carmody of Don Carmody Television and Lloyd Segan of Piller-Segan — and D. Matt Geller, who brought the project to IM Global.</p>
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<p>Original stars Norman Reedus and Sean Patrick Flanery are in early talks to come on board as co-executive producers.</p>
<p>Duffy has written a first episode and a bible for the project, which traces the origins of the vigilante brothers Connor and Murphy MacManus as Irish immigrants in South Boston. A search is underway for a showrunner to join the drama, which will be taken out, eyeing a straight-to-series order.</p>
<p>“For years I’ve been obsessed with telling a real origin story with <em>Boondock</em>, and IM Global TV has stepped up,” Duffy said. “Television is the perfect medium to explore these controversial characters on a much deeper level and to bring <em>Boondock Saints</em> to a whole new audience.”</p>
<p><em>The Boondock Saints </em>has showed staying power. Following a limited U.S. release, the original film became a DVD bestseller via word-of-mouth (watch a trailer below). The movie franchise, which had long been eyeing a third installment, has garnered more than $260 million in worldwide theatrical and DVD sales and has a robust social media presence, with its stars and director counting more than 7 million total followers.</p>
<p>“Since its initial release more than 15 years ago, <em>The Boondock Saints </em>has become a true cultural phenomenon,” said IM Global TV president Mark Stern. “Troy is a consummate storyteller with a compelling vision for a series; the minute we heard it, we were hooked.”</p>
<p>The deal for a <em>Boondock Saint</em>s series comes on the heels of IM Global TV, launched less than a year ago by co-founders Stuart Ford and Stern, <a href="http://deadline.com/2015/04/cats-cradle-drama-den-of-thieves-carla-gugino-im-global-tv-1201418835/">unveiling its first development slate</a>, which includes two literary adaptations, Kurt Vonnegut’s <em>Cat’s Cradle</em> and Marion Zimmer Bradley’s <em>Darkover</em><em>;</em> crime drama<em> <a id="auto-tag_den-of-thieves" href="http://deadline.com/tag/den-of-thieves/">Den Of Thieves</a></em> starring <a id="auto-tag_carla-gugino" href="http://deadline.com/tag/carla-gugino/">Carla Gugino</a> and produced by <a id="auto-tag_kevin-spacey" href="http://deadline.com/tag/kevin-spacey/">Kevin Spacey;</a> real-time horror drama <em>Horrorshow</em>;<em> </em>and a miniseries about the 1906 San Francisco earthquake produced by Martin Campbell.</p>
<p>The <em>Boondock Saints</em> deal was brokered by Stern and general counsel Deborah Zipser on behalf of IM Global TV, Bob Gettman at Jackoway Tyreman and Jordan Bayer at Original Artists for Duffy; Shep Rosenman at Katz Golden Rosenman for Piller-Segan and Don Carmody TV; and Jordan Bayer at Original Artists with Bob Abramoff at Burgee & Abramoff for D. Matt Geller.</p>
<p>Here’s the theatrical trailer:</p>
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