Roger might be Jonny Lee Miller (Macleane!). Who, in real life, is friends with Jude Law apparently, so there might be a nice real-life chemistry. Although then you'll get people writing RPS, of which I disapprove.
Dicky, sadly, doesn't matter, as he goes off and gets married nearly as soon as we meet him, and so isn't in the book we're basing the movie on. But we'll slip Monty Hayward in for a cameo so when he pops up more prominently in the sequel the kids in the know will be all SEE!
The only question is whether we should go for a standalone flick that ends with Norman getting shot (IT IS NOT A SPOILER IF IT IS MENTIONED ON THE FIRST PAGE OF THE BOOK AND ALSO IN THE CHAPTER TITLES) and then begs for a sequel - that's how the books are set up - The Saint and the Last Hero (also published as The Saint Closes the Case, but it's obvious we're going to use the original title for the movie) followed by The Avenging Saint (also published as Knight Templar - actually Last Hero and Knight Templar are the original UK titles, and Closes the Case and Avenging are the later US republishing titles, so we're mixing our tenses as it were, but I think it's important to keep the word Saint in the title). The other option would be to compress both books into one movie which would mean tightening the action and not having as much straight simonandroger but which would also make for a more cohesive standalone flick.
And then of course we have to get permission from the Charteris estate and write scripts and convince a studio to produce it and anyway yeah Jonny Lee Miller.
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Dicky, sadly, doesn't matter, as he goes off and gets married nearly as soon as we meet him, and so isn't in the book we're basing the movie on. But we'll slip Monty Hayward in for a cameo so when he pops up more prominently in the sequel the kids in the know will be all SEE!
The only question is whether we should go for a standalone flick that ends with Norman getting shot (IT IS NOT A SPOILER IF IT IS MENTIONED ON THE FIRST PAGE OF THE BOOK AND ALSO IN THE CHAPTER TITLES) and then begs for a sequel - that's how the books are set up - The Saint and the Last Hero (also published as The Saint Closes the Case, but it's obvious we're going to use the original title for the movie) followed by The Avenging Saint (also published as Knight Templar - actually Last Hero and Knight Templar are the original UK titles, and Closes the Case and Avenging are the later US republishing titles, so we're mixing our tenses as it were, but I think it's important to keep the word Saint in the title). The other option would be to compress both books into one movie which would mean tightening the action and not having as much straight simonandroger but which would also make for a more cohesive standalone flick.
And then of course we have to get permission from the Charteris estate and write scripts and convince a studio to produce it and anyway yeah Jonny Lee Miller.