The director of ‘Boondock Saints’, Troy Duffy, is exploring a video game option for his cult movie, he announced to fans at Austin’s SXSW.

“We’re thinking of making a video game out of ‘Boondock’ and I went and listened to these guys pitch me the game and they had already done some programming,” said Duffy according to Reuters. “They had already built part of the game and I got to play it.”

He said that the video game industry had changed a lot since his early days of playing TRON at the arcade, “The demo the developer put together for ‘Boondock’ seems like real-time…realistic action. You’re looking at real characters…you can see sweat on their brows. The technology is out of this world,” he added, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

Duffy added that two of the most important things he wanted in the video game was be to increase intimacy between fans and the character and maintain the rough, gritty atmosphere of the film, saying,

“The Boondock fan base wants to have a beer with the MacManus brothers and then pick up a weapon and fight,” said Duffy. “With a video game you can increase that kind of intimacy, where they can actually be the brothers and hang out and do some shooting and have some fun. That communal aspect of the game is very important to me.”

In 2000, Duffy released ‘Boondock Saints’, an independent movie starring Willem Dafoe, Sean Patrick Flanery, Norman Reedus, Billy Connolly, and David Della Rocco, says Reuters. The NC-17 rated film only brought in $30,000 in box office sales, but went on to subsequently rake in $50 million in video sales and develop a large cult following. Duffy followed up with a 2009 release of an R-rated sequel which brought in $50 million in box office sales.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, Duffy wants the game to bring fans closer to the brand, “Video games are a way not only to expand beyond what you see in the movies as far as story and characters, but they’re a new way for your fan base to commune with one another and get even deeper into the whole brand,” he said.