Simon Templar is The Saint

The name Dougray Scott has been put forward by a number of web-site authors, many who are regarded as authorititive, as the the next actor to play Simon Templar in a new T.V. show of The Saint. Burl Barer’s Amazon blog and the official web-site of Leslie Charteris are both hinting that the long-awaited new T.V. show of The Saint might be announced soon.

Will there even be a new TV show of The Saint, as we have been hearing about for more than two years?

Various other information has been posted to IMDB. Further Google searches find even more rumors on Commander Bond. Even Roger Moore himself is saying that a new show is close to being sealed, and will start filming in Canada.

Way back in March 2008 Variety reported that Instinctive Film would co-produce Barry Levinson’s remake of The Saint, starring James Purefoy but this didn’t materialised, sadly. It turned in to a series called The Philanthropist.