Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures is in early negotiations with Hollywood actor Chris Pratt to star in<\/b>
\nLos Angeles: Paramount Pictures is in early negotiations with Hollywood actor Chris Pratt to star in a movie reboot of \u201cThe Saint\u201d, two decades after actor Val Kilmers thriller and 50 years after actor Roger Moores TV series.
Pratt\u2019s deal is not closed. He became a worldwide star after headlining Disney-Marvel\u2019s \u201cGuardians of the Galaxy\u201d movies and \u201cAvengers: Infinity War\u201d and its upcoming sequel in 2019, reports variety.com.
He also starred in \u201cPassengers\u201d with Jennifer Lawrence, and long-running sitcom \u201cParks and Recreation.\u201d
The studio secured a deal for book series rights in 2016 and set up a producing deal with producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura with the goal of starting an action franchise.
\u201cThe Saint\u201d is based on Leslie Charteris\u2019 book series, which follow the debonair Simon Templar character first introduced in the 1928 novel \u201cMeet the Tiger\u201d, followed by \u201cEnter the Saint\u201d 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 \u201cThe Saint\u201d 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 \u201cThe Saint\u201d 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.<\/p>\n

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