[THE_EPISTLE] copyrights

[Walters, Delmo]

I had heard about the "Roger as Simon meeting his son" idea in Cinescape magazine. 

Delmo Walters Jr.

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> From:     Mailing list of the Saint club on behalf of Ian Dickerson
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> Sent:     Thursday, April 27, 2006 2:27 AM
> To:     THEEPISTLE at OGHAM.ORG
> Subject:  Re: [THE_EPISTLE] copyrights
> 
> That's one way of putting it. The rights were sold in the very late
> 80s--effectively killing off a proposed second season of the Dutton Saint.
> LC wrote an initial four page outline which was rapidly discarded by The
> Paramount Powers That Be.
> 
> Off the top of my head I seem to recall that Jonathan Hensleigh's
> script--which formed the basis for the final Kilmer film--was script
> no.7(I've got them all somewhere at home so will check later).
> Certainly the
> early scripts did indeed feature a Saint and a Junior Saint--a concept which
> LC had initiated and supported. Just a shame about the rest of the story.
> 
> Tom Cruise kinda barged in, took one look at what was then the current
> script and went on to do Mission Impossible instead.
> 
> Kilmer contributed several ideas to what was the final film--primarily the
> concept of the Saint's disguises. Wesley Strick was bought in to rewrite
> Hensleigh's script and also incorporate KIlmer's ideas. Strick remains a fan
> of the original Saint and did his best, but was fighting against a star and
> a studio who thought they knew better.
> 
> Ian
> 
> 
> On 26/04/06, Michael Orr <Writedumas at aol.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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)
> >
> > Ph: (416)  481-2477
> > Fax: (416) 481-3577
> > E-mail:  Writedumas at aol.com
> >
> 
> 



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