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Wynnona Rider, Christian Slater
Hilarious dark comedy.
It was the original movie that spawn many like it. Basically clique of popular girls dominated by an alpha women. Something happens to her and it spurs a killing spree sort of
Im trying not to give too much away here.
Ah, Mean Girls + NBK.
I\'ll check it out.
Mean Girls, Jawbreaker, there\'s a whole slew of them if you really look into the genre.
Interview: Troy Duffy
IGN chats with the director of Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day.
by Jim Vejvoda
September 3, 2009 - Ten years after the release of the original cult classic comes The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day, once again written and directed by Troy Duffy. The film, which opens theatrically October 30, is the continuation of Duffy\'s saga of the MacManus brothers, Murphy (Norman Reedus) and Connor (Sean Patrick Flanery). While in hiding in Ireland with their father, Il Duce (Billy Connolly), the brothers learn that a beloved priest has been killed by sinister forces from deep within the mob and return to Boston to mount a violent and bloody crusade to bring justice to those responsible. Rounding out the cast is the McManus\' new partner in crime, Romeo (Star Trek\'s Clifton Collins Jr.), and sexy FBI agent Eunice Bloom (Dexter\'s Julie Benz).
During an exclusive phone interview this week, Duffy recalled the nearly decade-long struggle to make the sequel and credited fans for making it happen. The fans, he explained, discovered The Boondock Saints after it was released direct-to-video -- theatrical distributors turned down the ultra-violent film in the wake of the Columbine massacre -- and made it a home video sensation. "The fans found it, picked it up on their own and just kept passing it around. If there was a way to push a button and changed it to have gotten a theatrical release, I wouldn\'t have changed it because now the fans have a personal stake in this. This is their movie," Duffy declared. "The fans basically, through continuing to spread the movie and continuing to buy the movie over and over again, put a gun to the head of the powers-that-be here in Hollywood and made it sort of impossible for them not to, and I ended up getting the right amount that I needed to make it the right way. So they\'re sort of responsible for everything."
Fans and Duffy weren\'t the only ones eager for a sequel; Flanery and Reedus were, too. Once the director and his leading men were all finally on-set again, Duffy said "there was no getting footing back. Both these guys showed locked and loaded and ready to roll. I can\'t think of a two-week period in the last few years where Sean or Norm didn\'t call me at home and ask me, \'When are we doing this (expletive) thing?\' … These guys were chomping at the bit to do this and they were always ready and always knew we were going to do this. They\'d get hit up in public about Boondock all the time, so they just knew that at some point the damn movie was going to get made. When that movie got made, all four of us celebrated."
Duffy employed "creative flashbacks" to help "fill the audience in enough on the story of the first movie without having to go point-by-point back over it. … I knew we were going to have newbies here and that we were going to have to take care of them. We\'ve given them enough of the first story to understand so that they\'re not lost, but we really didn\'t dwell on it that much." Boondock Saints II also contains period flashbacks, which Duffy said will delve into the history of the McManus\' father and how he became a killer. "They are 1958 New York flashbacks, which I was sort of worried about because Boondock fans just aren\'t used to that," he explained. "Suddenly going to a period piece flashback where everything looks different, feels different, people talk different. It\'s just not Boondock I. It\'s one of the ways we\'re trying to throw a curveball to the audience here and give them a brand new story."
For Duffy, the sequels that succeed "are the ones that give you everything you love about the first movie, but give you something brand new that you never saw coming. The story\'s got to be new and unique with some new characters, but with twice the punch of everything they love." One element missing from the 1999 original is Willem Dafoe\'s character, FBI Special Agent Paul Smecker. In his place is Julie Benz as Eunice Bloom, whom the filmmaker describes as "a sort of Southern belle FBI agent and Dafoe\'s prot?g? who does her own thing on crime scenes. It was very important for (Benz) to have her own style of talking, walking and going over the crime scene that was similar to Dafoe\'s, but dissimilar enough to make it her own style so she\'s not a carbon copy of him. For Boondock fans to even hear that there\'s a female lead in Boondock II flips them sideways. She\'s another curveball I\'m throwing at them. She\'s hot. Hopefully, every guy wants to bang her and every chick wants to be her. I think she\'s done an amazing job, and I\'m really excited to see what she does next."
Collins\' character Romeo figures out who the Saints are and campaigns to join their cause. "Clifton\'s a buddy of mine for over a decade now. I wrote the role for him.… They put (Romeo) off as a pledge for awhile but they eventually accept him, so we now have three Saints wreaking havoc." The cast also includes Oscar-nominated screen legend Peter Fonda (Easy Rider, Ghost Rider) and Judd Nelson (New Jack City, The Breakfast Club). "I can\'t wait to see what people say about his performance," Duffy said of Fonda. "I didn\'t know Fonda was an Italian name, so for the first time he\'s sunk his teeth into a role that was his native creed and he really took a hold of it. He knew he was never going to get cast as an Italian in anything because he\'s white as a ghost, really tall and thin, there\'s nothing about him that says Italian." Duffy calls Fonda\'s work in the film "a really intense, simmering performance, and I wanted it to be disturbing sort of in the way that (gangster Hyman Roth) was in Godfather II. He\'s an evil guy, but there\'s something about when he starts to talk business – even though you knew he was screwing everybody – you started to buy into him. You could see what he was doing. I wanted a character like that comes as close as a razor\'s edge to convincing you that, as evil as he is, geez, maybe this guy\'s got a point. Maybe he\'s right, and that\'s the type of performance I got out of Peter. Also, working with him was a dream come true."
Nelson portrays Concezio Yakavetta, the son of the mob boss portrayed by Carlo Rota in the first film. Concezio is out to get the Saints, and both Duffy and Nelson were adamant that they make the character a worthy adversary for the McManus brothers. "Judd just killed it. He came to set with a whole idea on this thing, and he acted the s**t out of it, you know? I know we haven\'t seen Judd in anything for awhile. My opinion is he\'s back. He\'s an actor who cares so much about every little line, every little gesture." The director sang the praises of the entire cast for stepping up to the challenges in pulling off the ambitious but low-budgeted action film. "We didn\'t have all the time in the world but through working extremely hard, and having a bunch of actors that were down for this, we managed to get better than what was on the page in just about every scene," Duffy said. "That was also because of the fanbase for this film. No one wanted to be the guy who (expletive) Boondock II in any way because they knew the fans would find out where they live and burn their (expletive) house down. So everybody gave 110%."
Troy Duffy said fans have reason to hope that the McManus brothers might raise hell again someday in a Boondock Saints III. "There\'s certainly the possibility of that, but I\'m going to be honest with you: I\'d love to do another movie or two that\'s not Boondock in the interim," he said. "Over the last eight years of trying to put this together, I\'ve been doing nothing but writing scripts. I\'ve got four ready to go. It\'s all material written at street level and I have ultimate faith in it, so I\'d love to be able to do a couple more movies. But I can\'t put it out of the realm of possibility. There certainly is potential there for three." Duffy revealed that a Boondock Saints videogame might also be in the works. "There\'s been an unbelievable amount of requests for that. There\'s some web sites that do \'The Top 5 Movies That Should be Turned Into Videogames\', and Boondock was number one. It\'s almost like it\'s geared for comic books and videogames. Yeah, we\'re into that right now as long as we can make the deal."
The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day opens October 30.