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Rege-Jean Page is walking in 007s footsteps.  No, the  Bridgerton star hasnt been cast as James Bond -- yet -- but hes taking the lead role in  The Saint, an adaptation of a 1960s U.K. spy series that once was a Bond-precursor for the late  Roger Moore. The Hollywood Reporter says Page will co-produce and star as Simon Templar, a suave, wealthy man who moonlights as a master of disguise and expert thief who, in true Robin Hood fashion, usually steals from the wealthy to the...

Robert Evans ( Chinatown,  Marathon Man) on board as producers. Evans died in 2019, but he will receiving a producer credit anyway. The Saint Gets an Overhaul Page is taking over the role from Chris Pine ( Wonder Woman), who took it over from Chris Pratt ( Guardians of the Galaxy). It’s unclear whether Dexter Fletcher, the filmmaker behind Rocketman and Eddie the Eagle, is still attached to direct this movie, but it appears that the story has been significantly reworked. Seth Grahame-Sm...

60 shares The Saint focuses on a character named Simon Templar, who goes by the alias of The Saint, in a modern-day Robin Hood-style figure. The character is known to leave a calling card at the scene of wherever he strikes, in the form of a stick man - which was used as the cover of the original books. Back in the day: According to reports, Regé-Jean Page has landed his next major role in the reimagination of the 1997 film The Saint, which originally featured Val Kilmer (pictured) Deadline cl...

Based on the long-running franchise of books and short stories by Leslie Charteris, the movie will see Page assume big screen leading man status as Simon Templar, the shadowy, globetrotting English English adventurer cum detective and a master-of-disguise, whos willing to skirt the law in order to take down all sorts of bad guys -- from corrupt politicians and greedy capitalists to mafiosos and Nazi thugs. Charteris began writing the mystery series in the 1920s and continued to hatch potboilers...

"I think the internet thinks a lot of things and thats one of the more pleasant ones," he told Jimmy Fallon. "So Im pleased as far as that goes. "I think there might be an element of cultural translation to be done here. If youre a Brit, and you do something of any kind of renown that people regard well, then people start saying the B word. Its like a merit badge. You get the B word merit badge. But I dont think its much more than that. "Im very, very glad to have the badge. Im glad to be in su...

The Saint. Leslie Charteris character has most famously been brought to life on TV by Roger Moore, while the 1997 film take starred Val Kilmer. The Robin Hood-style thief and criminal for hire takes down dodgy politicians and other nefarious wrongdoers. Playwright, actor and current artistic director of The Young Vic Kwame Kwei-Armah is aboard to write the script for the movie, though theres no director currently attached. The film was previously in development with Chris Pine starring and D...

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This week's new Blu-ray releases include the fifteenth and final season of Supernatural as well as Chaos Walking, Super 8, Happily, The Birds, Psycho, The Legend of Bagger Vance, and more!

THERE was an appalling mistake in last week’s Memories which had the engines of our old car spotters overheating. Sorry. We had a picture of a fancy sporty car which we said was a Jensen Interceptor, as could be seen in the second TV series of The Saint. But it wasn’t. Oh, no. “You have been bamboozled by series one of The Saint in which a Volvo P1800 coupe was driven by Simon Templar,” said Richard Stone. “In series two, he upgraded to a Jensen.” So our vehicle is a Volvo...

For many years the Saint was at war equally with criminals and the law. That led to trouble, and one day the Saint finally made his peace with the law and joined Scotland Yard. The next day he met the rather lovely leader of a gang and joined her in a venture so daring that before it was accomplished, the Saint found himself facing the wrong end of a gun belonging to a commissioner at Scotland Yard. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Book Description: The Saint is back - t...