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 British spy-fi thriller TV series starring the late, great Roger Moore. With his debonair wink and a smile, the thesp s stint as Templar proved irresistible to Bond producers, who famously tapped Moore to succeed Sean Connery as 007 in the 70s and 80s.
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