Purefoy Ready to be the SAINT

The series was before my time but I've always loved this movie. A new series would be great. James Purefoy seems like a really good choice. He was awesome as Marc Antony in Rome and I can definitely see him pulling off many disguises and characters. Looking forward for this.

This is indeed good. The movie was OK and what little I've seen of the Moore series was nice, but this would make a great new series, probably done in the more gritter style of the Bourne movies. There are good people behind it.

I'm not overly familiar with the original, but wasn't he a master of disguise? Will Purefoy have a problem acting in disguise like he did acting behind a mask when he started in V for Vendetta?

The "master of disguise" element was something added for the movie. In the original Roger Moore series, he never once wore a disguise (that I saw). He basically was a travelling Good Samaritan of sorts. I never read the novels, but I do understand that he never used disguises there, either.

The movie was horrible. Ponderous. I want something like the Moore TV show or books.

And I want that theme from the Moore series. B&W version preferred.

Having read the original Leslie Charteris novels and grown up on the 1960s Roger Moore television series, I hope that they'll do justice to the spirit of "The Saint," who's more of a benevolent con man than an action hero. Sure, he occasionally gets into fisticuffs, but Simon Templar should be better at outwitting the police and villains than at fighting them. The Val Kilmer movie got only some of this right, with a suave star but a bit too much emphasis on action and the end of the Cold War.

I cannot wait for more Saint. I loved the movie for what it was and while I can see some of the complaints I just was happy they made a movie at that time without all the cliched US action film requirements (yes there were some but not all of them).
In this day and age they could keep the disguise deal by just having him tweak computer files and such (might be interesting take even with the original Saint being a con man of sorts), my big question: Is there another actor that could pull this off? I like the Purefoy, but I was wondering what about Cillian Murphy or even James Nesbitt (I believe that is the guy from Jekyll)?

The Saint was a pretty good show back in the day when it aired in the late night hours on CBS where talk shows now occupy when I was a kid. Roger Moore was the first Saint then was replaced by Ian Ogilvy when Moore moved on and served as a catalyst for him to play Bond later on. While I really didn't like Val Kilmer's version, it wasn't hatable either. Just wished they had followed the old show more closely.