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Rege-Jean Page is walking in 007's footsteps.  No, the  Bridgerton star hasn't been cast as James Bond -- yet -- but he's 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 benefit of the poor. Moore's role in the 1960s series led to him play James Bond on the big scre...

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-Smith ( The LEGO Batman Movie, Dark Shadows) was credited with writing a previous version of the scre...

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 claim the reboot will be a fresh take on the classic character. 

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, who's 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 for the next 40 years. Over that period, The Saint spawned a slew of movies and a popular '60s Br...

"I think the internet thinks a lot of things and that's one of the more pleasant ones," he told Jimmy Fallon. "So I'm pleased as far as that goes. "I think there might be an element of cultural translation to be done here. If you're a Brit, and you do something of any kind of renown that people regard well, then people start saying the 'B' word. It's like a merit badge. You get the 'B' word merit badge. But I don't think it's much more than that. "I'm very, very glad to have the badge. I'm glad to be in such wonderful company of people who have the badge. But it's a badge."