[THE_EPISTLE] copyrights

[Michael Orr]

Is it true as I once read that LC  had sold the rights to Paramount back in
the 80s and wanted to do a Saint  (Roger) with a son (?) to carry on the story
in a new movie version: I also  heard LC had written an outline and that for a
while (God help us!) Tom Cruise  was being considered by the studio.
Then with studio heads being  chopped, Sony etc from Japan, buying studios
(for a while; they are mostly back  in US hands nows), it was simply put on the
back burner: then Charteris died in  1993...
...and the people in charge wanted  Kilmer, and it was Val who gave them the
scenario he liked and they ran with it  (which shows Kilmer, whom I usually
like, knew very llittle about the Saint  background, or did not respect the
author and his stories enough, which I hope  is not the truth).
Comments, Ian?
Michael
(Toronto)

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