A little more than a year ago Spinetingler brought you the first images from the movie The Guards, based on the Ken Bruen book of the same name featuring the character Jack Taylor.
In August we ran the trailer for the movie and later that same month we ran a review of it that further whetted the appetites of crime fiction fans everywhere and in here The States we are eager to see the movie for ourselves.
Word from Magma Productions came down that The Guards was a success and as a result further films were shot and are now in post-production. The Pikeman and The Magdalen Martyrs will air later this year.
Spinetingler has the trailers for both of them and you check them out after the jump.
THE PIKEMEN
Jack is returning to his beloved Galway clean and sober after having been away for a year. It is not long before Jack is dragged back under when he uncovers a group of vigilantes calling themselves The Pikemen, after old Irish Freedom Fighters. Jack is pushed to the brink like never before. He soon realizes that the only way to see justice done is to do the very thing he has been trying to avoid: to become like the Pikemen…
THE MAGDALEN MARTYRS
Jack is hired by the daughter of a former inmate of the infamous Magdalen Laundries, a home for wayward girls, to find the identity of a former nun, known only as Lucifer. The seemingly simple case grows complicated when two young boys are murdered. Jack sets out on the old nun´s trail, uncovering religious hypocrisy and abuse…
