The Boondock Saints Debacle Explained
The Boondock Saints was one of the greatest cult classics of the last century.
From the very beginning it had been plagued with setbacks and complications that eventually led to the film being released straight to DVD.
The film has been arguably the most successful cult film, winning over millions of fans and becoming highly popular in a sense that it managed to become part of an almost mainstream type of pop culture for many teenagers and remains so to this day.
Director Troy Duffer wrote the screenplay after witnessing a horrid scene: he came home to find that a woman had died in a drug dealer's room across the hall from his apartment.
The film would be plagued itself with bad luck.
After impressing Miramax with his script, Harvey Weinstein had decided to give it a $15 million budget.
Everything seemed on track for a major launch at the theaters.
Then Duffy happened.
After repeated arguments with Duffy over casting, Miramax dropped the project.
Due to these troubles, Duffy was forced to find a smaller independent company to finance the film, with a smaller budget and not the cast originally hoped for.
Nonetheless, the film he made would become a blockbuster sensation, but not in the way anticipated, and in more ways than one.
The release of Boondock Saints in theaters in 1999 was, according to Duffy, unfortunately timed.
Due to the Columbine High School shootings recently occurring, the film was reduced and limited to only five screens in the entire United States, and even then, only for one week.
With help from Blockbuster Video, who had discovered it to be widely popular in their stores, Troy Duffy secured financing to re-release the film in 2006.
Due to word-of-mouth, Boondock Saints had gained a cult following, which some critics might argue is undeserved.
The other die-hard fans have proven it to be a success despite the monumental problems it's release faced.
With this given trend of bad luck, especially in the development and production of the film, when Duffy announced a sequel to have financial backing in 2002, many would be right to be skeptical.
The release date of 2005 never came to be, and Duffy made clear later on this happened due to litigation with the company in control of the film rights.
20th Century Fox would eventually step in and agree to back the production of the sequel.
It finally seems that for now, the troubles for Duffy and the crew may now be over.
The film has been marked as in post-production, and Duffy states possible release by the end of the year.
From the very beginning it had been plagued with setbacks and complications that eventually led to the film being released straight to DVD.
The film has been arguably the most successful cult film, winning over millions of fans and becoming highly popular in a sense that it managed to become part of an almost mainstream type of pop culture for many teenagers and remains so to this day.
Director Troy Duffer wrote the screenplay after witnessing a horrid scene: he came home to find that a woman had died in a drug dealer's room across the hall from his apartment.
The film would be plagued itself with bad luck.
After impressing Miramax with his script, Harvey Weinstein had decided to give it a $15 million budget.
Everything seemed on track for a major launch at the theaters.
Then Duffy happened.
After repeated arguments with Duffy over casting, Miramax dropped the project.
Due to these troubles, Duffy was forced to find a smaller independent company to finance the film, with a smaller budget and not the cast originally hoped for.
Nonetheless, the film he made would become a blockbuster sensation, but not in the way anticipated, and in more ways than one.
The release of Boondock Saints in theaters in 1999 was, according to Duffy, unfortunately timed.
Due to the Columbine High School shootings recently occurring, the film was reduced and limited to only five screens in the entire United States, and even then, only for one week.
With help from Blockbuster Video, who had discovered it to be widely popular in their stores, Troy Duffy secured financing to re-release the film in 2006.
Due to word-of-mouth, Boondock Saints had gained a cult following, which some critics might argue is undeserved.
The other die-hard fans have proven it to be a success despite the monumental problems it's release faced.
With this given trend of bad luck, especially in the development and production of the film, when Duffy announced a sequel to have financial backing in 2002, many would be right to be skeptical.
The release date of 2005 never came to be, and Duffy made clear later on this happened due to litigation with the company in control of the film rights.
20th Century Fox would eventually step in and agree to back the production of the sequel.
It finally seems that for now, the troubles for Duffy and the crew may now be over.
The film has been marked as in post-production, and Duffy states possible release by the end of the year.
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