Val Kilmer plays suave espionage hero Simon Templer - aka The Saint - and Elisabeth Shue costars in this atmospheric mix of bold adventure and grand romance.
The Saint is a 1997 American action thriller film directed by Phillip Noyce, written by Jonathan Hensleigh and Wesley Strick, and starring Val Kilmer in the title role, with Elisabeth Shue and Rade Šerbedžija.
This is a list of the films featuring Simon Templar and of the actors who played the Saint: The Saint in New York (1938 – Louis Hayward) The Saint Strikes Back (1939 – George Sanders) The Saint in London (1939 – Sanders; produced in the UK by RKO's British unit)
Šerbedžija has had supporting roles in Hollywood films such as Mission: Impossible 2, Mighty Joe Young, The Saint, Eyes Wide Shut, Snatch, and Space Cowboys among others.
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It's also what drove director Phillip Noyce to pick Kilmer to play the movie's central figure, Simon Templar, as well as a dozen of Templar's aliases. "We didn't need just another action hero. We needed a real actor," Noyce said.
The Saint was founded by Adam Jon Weisberg along with business partner Scott Stamper, and opened its doors on November 18, 1994. Stamper bought out Weisberg in 2013 and became the sole owner. He is also a co-founder (along with Weisberg and Gordon Brown) of the Wave Gathering Music Festival.
After her wedding to Kilmer in 1988, she moved to Los Angeles to continue her film career and began using 'Joanne Whalley-Kilmer' as her professional SAG-AFTRA name.
A generic suspenser that doesn't taste bad at first bite but becomes increasingly hard to swallow. There's no lack of style or pace from Noyce, just the sense that it isn't quite gelling together. The glossy photography is stunning and Kilmer's implausible accents are fun.
The Saint's first episode premiered only one day before the premiere of first James Bond film Dr. No in October 1962. Many actors, such as Shirley Eaton, Lois Maxwell, George Pastell and Paul Stassino, starred alongside both the current and future James Bond actors in the two series during the 1960s.
Roger Moore, the handsome English actor who appeared in seven films as James Bond — the most of any Bond actor — and as Simon Templar on “The Saint” TV series, has died in Switzerland after a short battle with cancer. He was 89.
Simon Templar is a Robin Hood-like figure known as the Saint – plausibly from his initials, but the exact reason for his nickname is unknown (although the reader is told that he was given it at the age of nineteen). Templar has aliases, often using the initials S.T. such as "Sebastian Tombs" or "Sugarman Treacle".
Kilmer also wrote the poetry in the film. He received a salary of $6 million for the movie. The Saint was a financial success, grossing $169.4 million worldwide.
Val Kilmer was diagnosed with throat cancer in his 50s, but he was initially reluctant to seek medical attention. He eventually underwent multiple rounds of intense chemotherapy, radiation, and a tracheotomy. And though the treatment left his cancer in remission, it also took away his natural speaking voice.
His film debut was in the 1984 spoof Top Secret! (1984), wherein he starred as blond rock idol Nick Rivers. He was in a number of films throughout the 1980s, including the 1986 smash Top Gun (1986).
The Saint is a British crime television series that aired in the United Kingdom on ITV between 1962 and 1969. It was based on the literary character Simon Templar created by Leslie Charteris in the 1920s and featured in many novels over the years.
Kilmer played Cruise's rival in the original TOP GUN, leading to fierce competition throughout the naval aviator training program. They reconcile towards the end of the movie when Cruise saves Kilmer's life, earning his respect. The two stars have remained friends since working on the original film in 1986.
Val and Angelina didn't hit it off as a romance until after their movie was out in 2004. In a touching passage, the actor described how he was "rescued" by his former co-star. He wrote: “I was rescued from an icy inferno of solitude by another angel. Perhaps the most soulful and serious of them all.
Val Kilmer, who famously played Tom Kazansky, a.k.a. Iceman in Top Gun, is a father to son Jack Kilmer and daughter Mercedes Kilmer. The actor shares his children with his ex-wife, Joanne Whalley.
Race riots in 1970 devastated Asbury's west side, and the town never fully recovered. After 1978, Atlantic City's new casinos siphoned off any lingering tourist traffic. Asbury Park became a ghost town, its cluster of carnival rides transformed into a citywide haunted house.
This land would eventually become Asbury Park. Bradley paid $90,000 for the property in 1871, and named it after Francis Asbury, the first bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church in America.
It also became a bastion for local acts. The timing was fortuitous, as fellow venue Asbury Lanes temporarily shut down in 2015 for renovations — and remained closed until 2018 — and longstanding haunt The Saint began to wind down (it's now closed).
