Fundamental is seeing Regé-Jean Page’s halo.
Page, the breakout actor from Neflix’s Bridgerton, has gotten on to star in and executive produce the studio’s reboot of The Saint. Simultaneously, playwright and actor Kwame Kwei-Armah has been acquired to compose another draft of the content for the adventure thriller. This is Page’s second project with Paramount after the upcoming Dungeons and Dragons.
Producing The Saint are Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Brad Krevoy, just as Robert Evans, who died on in 2019 and will get an posthumous credit.
The moves put new energy behind the long-gestating project, which as late as last year had Chris Pine connected and Dexter Fletcher directing. That cycle of the project is presently shelved, in spite of the fact that Fletcher’s present inclusion stays hazy. The filmmaker is all around respected inside the studio — he is as of now directing Paramount Television Studios’ making-of-The Godfather limited series The Offer for Paramount+.
Holy person depends on the mid 20th century adventure novels by Leslie Charteris that highlighted a strange man named Simon Templar bringing down different trouble makers. The person demonstrated very famous, showing up in comics, serials and, of course, movies and television. Roger Moore broadly featured during the 1960s British TV series of a similar name, while Val Kilmer featured in Paramount’s 1997 film The Saint as an expert of disguise. The logline for the new form is being kept under wraps.
Kwei-Armah co-wrote 892, a non mainstream show currently shooting with John Boyega leading the pack. He is additionally composing the Spike Lee melodic All Rise. As a dramatist, he won the Peggy Ramsey grant and is at present filling in as artistic director of The Young Vic in London.
Page’s work as Bridgerton heart breaker Simon Basset made him one of Hollywood’s generally pursued entertainers, with armies of fans baffled when news descended in April that he would not be returning for the Netflix time frame dramatization’s subsequent season.
Since his rising to the highest point of Hollywood ranks, he arranged jobs in the Russo siblings’ The Gray Man with Chris Evans and Ryan Gosling, just as Paramount’s Dungeons and Dragons movie. Holy person, which would reteam him with Paramount, would be his first time featuring a studio feature.
Page is repped by CAA, Mosaic, The Artists Partnership and attorney Greg Slewett. Kwei-Armah is repped by United Agents, Gotham Group, Redefine Entertainment and Lichter, Grossman.