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EXCLUSIVE: Paramount’s highly-anticipated The Saint reimagining is gaining some severe momentum as sources inform Deadline Doug Liman is hooked up to direct and oversee the event of the movie. Regé-Jean Web page will exec produce and star within the pic. Lorenzo DiBonaventura and Brad Krevoy will produce, with the late Robert Evans additionally credited as a producer.
Plot particulars are being stored underneath wraps and Rory Haines and Sohrab Noshirvani are writing the script.
Primarily based partially on Leslie Charteris’ Nineteen Twenties guide collection and subsequent Sixties UK TV collection starring Roger Moore, The Saint follows Simon Templar, higher generally known as The Saint, a Robin Hood-esque felony and thief for rent who goes on a globetrotting journey. Whereas plot particulars for this pic are being stored underneath wraps, insiders say this might be a very new take that reimagines the character and world round him.
Paramount launched the 1997 movie model which starred Val Kilmer, which went on to be an enormous hit for the studio. Paramount sees this as the proper time to relaunch since Web page has turn into a star along with his hit Netflix collection Bridgerton.
Liman is not any stranger to launching main franchises, as he did with The Bourne Id, and in giving new spins on motion classics, having simply wrapped manufacturing on one other highly-anticipated reimagining in MGM’s Street Home which can star Jake Gyllenhaal. With Liman now on board, count on The Saint to be excessive precedence for the studio as pre-production on quite a lot of movies ramps up put up SAG strike.
Subsequent up for Liman, he reunites along with his Bourne Id star Matt Damon on the Apple Studios pic The Instigators which additionally stars Casey Affleck. He’s repped by CAA.
Haines and Noshirvani are greatest identified for his or her BAFTA-nominated work on the thriller The Maritanian, and so they additionally lately penned Black Adam for DC Studios. They’re repped by CAA, Grandview, and Darren Trattner at JackowayTyerman Wertheimer.
