THE BOONDOCK SAINTS' Sean Patrick Flanery (pictured above in SAW: THE FINAL CHAPTER) has signed on to star in writer/director Jimmy Lee Combs' horror Western SPIRIT RECKONING alongside Lew Temple, an actor who has been seen on The Walking Dead and had roles in THE DEVIL'S REJECTS, HALLOWEEN, 31, and TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE: THE BEGINNING, among others.
Coming to us from Heart and Fire Productions, SPIRIT RECKONING will star Flanery as
gunfighter Lawson Lovette, whose psychotic tendencies and skills with a revolver make him the perfect candidate to aid The Skull Cowboy Sam Conley on his blood-soaked journey of revenge.
Temple's character is
Ottis Clement, who is just as crazed as Lawson, sparking an intense rivalry between the two men. Ottis causes chaos and anarchy in the Wild West alongside his brother Ed and leader of their posse Savage Bill.
Combs says that his film will be
a fun filled action-horror-western that has never been done like this before and we’re billing it as John Woo meets Sergio Leone meets the horror genre. The Lawson Lovette character is a real ball of fire with some great wise cracks along the way and for me was the most fun to write of all the characters. Being huge fans of The Boondock Saints films and Sean Patrick Flanery’s work, we knew he would be the perfect choice to match the wit, charm and crazy side of Lawson. We’re also thrilled to be working with a veteran like Lew who not only has the look we’re going for but the range to play a character that can go to psychotic lengths. I mean just watch his performance as Psycho-Head in Rob Zombie’s 31."
SPIRIT RECKONING will be filming in Colorado and California this year, aiming for a 2020 release.
I'm a fan of Flanery and Temple, and love when the horror and Western genres get mixed together, so I'm looking forward to seeing how SPIRIT RECKONING will turn out.