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Monday, April 01, 2013
First Look at the new Saint: Promo Trailer
Deadline Hollywood has posted the exclusive first footage of Adam Rayner as Simon Templar, alias The Saint!
Adam Rayner and Eliza Dushku look absolutely fantastic in the trailer promo for the new TV series that is based on Leslie Charteris’ Saint franchise.
The backdoor pilot was directed by Simon West from a script by Jesse Alexander. Brad Krevoy’s film and TV production company MPCA is behind the project, which will be screened at MIPTV next week, with MPCA’s Francisco Gonzalez handling international sales.
Deadline reports that there is interest in the series from U.S. networks.
Now watch the trailer here, and see if you can spot all the amazing co-stars such as James Remar, Enrique Murciano, Thomas Kretschmann, Greg Grunberg, Sir Roger Moore, and Ian Ogilvy!
The news that Roger Moore is not only co-producing the new 2013 incarnation of The Saint, but that he will also be playing a role on-screen made headlines this week. Many fans are extremely pleased to hear that the most famous Simon Templar of all, Roger Moore himself, will be guiding Adam Rayner's character both on and off the show!
Roger Moore as The Saint with Volvo 1800S
The known cast and crew list is growing as details emerge from the first week of shooting. The filming went really great this week, and the show is now taking a short break for the holidays, and will resume the shoot in San Diego just after the New Year.
If you take a close look at the list, you'll notice Thomas Kretschmann is slated to play the role of Rayt Marius. This name should be quite familiar to fans of Leslie Charteris' books, as Rayt Marius appears in the 1930 novel, The Last Hero, and again in the following book, Knight Templar. He's also mentioned in 1932's, Getaway, and his final appearance in print was in The Misfortunes of Mr. Teal, in the novella, "The Simon Templar Foundation", 1934. This is really great news, as it means that the Producers are doing their homework and reading the books, something that is sure to pay off in making this new show more Saintly!
Brad Krevoy, Executive Producer, MPCA Production Company
Roman Viaris, Executive Producer
James Townsend, Executive Producer
Roger Moore, co-Producer
Geoffrey Moore, co-Producer
Lulu Moore, co-Producer
Louisa Macdonald, co-Producer
Jim Martin, co-Producer
Alexandre Coscas, co-Producer
1st Assistant Director, Nick Satriano
2nd Assistant Director, Jayson Merrill
2nd Assistant Director, Doug Plasse
Eric Jarboe, Producer
Lina Wong, Producer
Kyle Clark, Producer
Paul Sommers, Director of Photography
Kurt Jones, A Camera
Eric Leach, B Camera
Sound Mixer, Glenn Berkovitz
Uly Domaion, Focus Puller
Jason Salonen, Gaffer
Jack L. Zeman, Still Photographer
Josh Hakian, Special Effects Coordinator
Ian Dickerson, Creative Consultant
Bill MacDonald, Creative Consultant
Josh Hakian, Stunts and Special Effects
Fred Fuchs, Production
Emanuel Millar, Make-up and Hair
Mick Davis, Writer
Larry Zanoff, Armourer
Mandy Sherman, Casting Director, Sherman/Knight
Sari Knight, Casting Director, Sherman/Knight
Morgan Redfield Smith, Casting Assistant
Michael MacDermott, Product Placement
Francisco J. González, International Sales
Silverscreen Pictures
And, while Burl Barer is not part of the cast and crew, he is continuing the novelizations of The Saint under license of the Leslie Charteris estate, and it is hoped that he will be involved if any TV Tie-in editions become available.
