Roger Moore in `The Saint` to be resurrected?

Before Roger Moore was James Bond 007, he was 'The Saint' and now that gentlemen thief character may be making a comeback, and not as a sequel to that 1997 Val Kilmer movie either - reports DarkHorizons.

First off the official web site of Roger Moore posted this fairly recently: "There are moves afoot to make a new Saint TV movie. Inspector Teal will be central to it, and the characters will be very faithful to the original stories - it will actually be set in the 1930s, though with a contemporary twist bringing in an ageing Simon Templar. Who will play him I wonder?"

After that the official web site for "Saint" creator Leslie Charteris responded to those comments, saying "For our part all we can do is confirm that there are moves afoot. If it comes off in line with what Sir Roger's said and in line with some of the material we've seen, then we think Saint fans will be very very happy but things such as this have a long way to go before they get in front of a camera and all it needs is some cocky American producer to pick up on Val Kilmer's recent comments that he'd like to return to the role for it all to go horribly wrong."

Thanks to `JP` for the alert.

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