Return of The Saint?

I’m sure more of my Generation X contemporaries are drooling over the prospect of a new Knight Rider series, but I’ve been keeping my eye on the potential return of an earlier action series. Among the people involved in a pilot movie for a new TV version of The Saint to star James Purefoy (Rome), according to Hollywood Reporter, are Barry Levinson (who will direct the pilot), Tom Fontana (Homicide: Life in the Street) and Roger Moore, one of the many actors (including Vincent Price, George Sanders, and Val Kilmer) who has portrayed Leslie Charteris’ infamous Simon Templar over the years. There’s no U.S. network lined up, though.

“One of the things we lost a little bit of in the movie but want to bring to the TV series is that Simon Templar is [a] very funny character with great lines and situation humor, and I don’t think there is anybody better than Levinson to tackle that,” Bill Macdonald, one of the Templar Entertainment Group founders, told Hollywood Reporter.

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