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Hey, look! There's a new version of The Saint on Netflix. I wonder it is any good. I shall take some time and watch it.
It's bad. Really bad.
It looks like a made for TV movie that they wanted to turn into a series. The only actor of note in the show is Eliza Dushku. I've never thought much of her acting and this is just more proof that. The guy who plays Templar had his cliche play book out. There was a remarkable case of "I see you managed to get your shirt off"
It started off stupid with terrorists buying nuclear weapons in Russia. The FBI is on the case but it all goes to hell when Simon Templar gets involved. It's downhill from there. With billions in money stolen and there's a kidnapping and Templar has to do the thing so they can do the thing. And all of Templar's old enemies are there. And there's a back story of why is The Saint.
And just shoot me already.
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That's been in my queue forever. Thanks for the warning.
Might still watch it just to join the conversation.
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Sorry, bros. I tried it in 2017 and quit after 15 min. Didn’t think it was worth a post.
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I never understood the original series until I saw Monty Python's THE BISHOP.
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It’s...The Bishop!
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Quote:NOVEMBER 16, 2018 12:39PM PT
Chris Pratt in Early Talks to Star in ‘The Saint’ Movie Reboot
By DAVE MCNARY
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Paramount Pictures is in early negotiations with Chris Pratt to star in a movie reboot of “The Saint,” two decades after Val Kilmer’s thriller and 50 years after Roger Moore’s TV series.
Pratt’s deal is not closed. He became a worldwide star after headlining Disney-Marvel’s “Guardians of the Galaxy” movies and “Avengers: Infinity War” (2018) and its upcoming sequel (2019). He also starred in “Passengers” with Jennifer Lawrence, and long-running NBC sitcom “Parks and Recreation.”
The studio secured a deal for book series rights in 2016 and set up a producing deal with Lorenzo di Bonaventura with the goal of starting an action franchise.
“The Saint” is based on Leslie Charteris’ book series, which follow the debonair Simon Templar character first introduced in the 1928 novel “Meet the Tiger,” followed by “Enter the Saint” in 1930. Templar stole from corrupt politicians and warmongers, leaving a calling card of a stick figure with a halo.
George Sanders starred in half a dozen films as “The Saint” in the late 1930s and early 1940s. Prior to his days portraying James Bond, Moore starred in a popular long-running British TV series during the 1960s.
The 1997 movie “The Saint” starred Kilmer and Elisabeth Shue, and was directed by Phillip Noyce from a script by Jonathan Hensleigh and Wesley Strick. The film, which explored the title character dealing with the underworld of international industrial theft, was produced by Evans, David Brown, William MacDonald, and Mace Neufeld.
Paramount-based di Bonaventura Pictures has produced the “Transformers,” “G.I. Joe,” and “Red” franchises, along with “Salt,” “Side Effects,” “Shooter,” “Jack Ryan,” and “The Devil Inside.”
Evans is repped by UTA. The news about Pratt was first reported by Deadline Hollywood.
Wait...Elizabeth Shue is in the 97 version?
The Saint, like Bond, should really be a Brit.
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The Saint should be a *debonaire* Brit. Hiddleston.
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Hmm. Fair call. I was going to go for Cumberbatch but I thought I might wait to see how he handles the Grinch.
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Bandersnatch Cumberbund is not handsome enough. He looks like an otter.
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Martin Freeman then?
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Frodo no-go.
I’d like to take just a moment to say that Chris Pratt’s “Star Lord” is the “Jar-Jar Binks” of the Infinity Wars franchise.
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What the what? I might have to block the Yeti.
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(11-20-2018, 10:01 AM)Dr. Ivor Yeti Wrote: I’d like to take just a moment to say that Chris Pratt’s “Star Lord” is the “Jar-Jar Binks” of the Infinity Wars franchise. 
(11-20-2018, 10:28 AM)Greg Wrote: What the what? I might have to block the Yeti.
What about Jude Law or Damian Lewis?
Tom Hardy?
Hiddleston is to weaselly.
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Ron Weasley?
I thought they mad Cumberbatch very sexy in Sherlock. But I think he is over saturated in the market at the moment.
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(11-20-2018, 12:35 AM)Dr. Ivor Yeti Wrote: Bandersnatch Cumberbund is not handsome enough. He looks like an otter. In all future roles, Cumberbatch should do his deep pondering while lying on his back and playing with mollusks on his tummy.
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