Title: The Saint (1997 film)
Content:  Saint film series, which would have been faithful to the original writings of Leslie Charteris and feature characters from the original books. This project also failed. A few years later, Paramount Pictures' attempt to make a film of The Saint started with the powerhouse above-the-line team of Robert Evans as producer, Steven Zaillian as writer and Sydney Pollack as director. Ralph Fiennes - hot from Schindler's List and Quiz Show - was offered $1 million for the lead, but eventually passed. In a 1994 interview for Premiere magazine, Fiennes said the screenplay—racing fast cars, breaking into Swiss banks was nothing 
Title: The Saint (1997 film)
Content:  A novelization based upon the film script was written by Burl Barer.
Title: The Saint (Simon Templar)
Content:  Not long after creating The Saint, Charteris began a long association with Hollywood as a screenwriter. He was successful in getting a major studio, RKO Radio Pictures, interested in a film based on one of his works. The first, The Saint in New York in 1938, based on the 1935 novel of the same name, starred Louis Hayward as Templar and Jonathan Hale as Inspector Henry Fernack, the American counterpart of Mr Teal. The film was a success and RKO began a Saint series. Some of the films were based on Charteris's original novels or novellas; others were original stories based upon 
Title: The Saint (1997 film)
Content:  Mayflower described it as one of the top unproduced screenplays. Phillip Noyce was hired to direct. Providing a link to both the 1960s The Saint TV series and the later Return of the Saint revival of the 1970s, Robert S. Baker, the producer of both series, was brought in an executive producer of the film. In a 1997 interview with Des O'Connor for his ITV show, Hugh Grant says he passed on the role after a meeting with Noyce because he didn't like the director's approach to the character. Hugh Grant, Kenneth Branagh, Mel Gibson, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Christian Slater, George 
Title: The Saint (1997 film)
Content:  Paramount Pictures announced that they would reboot the film with Lorenzo di Bonaventura producing, Dexter Fletcher will direct and Regé-Jean Page will be portraying Templar and will also executive producing the film while Kwame Kwei-Armah will write.
Title: The Saint (1997 film)
Content:  hadn't seen before. Robert Evans left the project—although, contractually, his name remains on the final film's credits—and David Brown (Jaws, Driving Miss Daisy) took over. A new story was commissioned from Jonathan Hensleigh (Die Hard with a Vengeance), which cast Simon Templar as a mercenary hired by a billionaire Russian oil and gas tycoon to steal the secret of cold fusion from an eccentric but beautiful American scientist. The story would take place in Washington, D.C., Upstate New York, St. Petersburg, and Moscow. Setpieces included Dr. Russell skydiving while strapped into a wheelchair and a plane landing in Red Square. 
Title: The Saint (1997 film)
Content:  West Germany, Australia in 1989 starring Simon Dutton. Of these, the Moore series remained the definitive television adaptation. In the mid-1980s, tabloid gossip newspapers such as the National Enquirer reported that Moore was planning to produce a new Saint movie, with Pierce Brosnan (then known for playing the Templar-influenced character Remington Steele on TV and later of James Bond fame) being considered for the role, though nothing came of this project. The reference work The Saint: A Complete History by Burl Barer (McFarland 1992) was written at a time when another set of plans were under way to launch a 
Title: The Saint Strikes Back
Content:  in the title role (Hugh Sinclair took over for the final two). In the film The Saint foils an assassination attempt by a member of Val Travers' gang, but is wanted in connection to the killing before joining the police in their efforts to stop Travers and apprehend a shadowy criminal mastermind. The script was based on the Leslie Charteris novel She Was a Lady (Hodder and Stoughton, 1931) which was also published as Angels of Doom and The Saint Meets His Match. The screenplay was by John Twist, who set the story in San Francisco (the book is set in England). Robert Sisk produced and John Farrow directed.
Title: The Saint in New York
Content:  It was this book that RKO Radio Pictures purchased and made the basis for their first Saint film, which was released in 1938. William Sistrom was the producer. Louis Hayward was cast as Simon Templar. A minor change was made to the character of Inspector Fernack; the spelling of his name was changed to Farnack and remained so for all future film appearances. In 1987, a television pilot for a potential new Saint TV series was broadcast on CBS. Entitled The Saint in Manhattan, the pilot was not directly based upon the novel but did feature the character of Inspector Farnack.
Title: The Saint (2017 film)
Content: Adam Rayner as Simon Templar ; Eliza Dushku as Patricia Holm ; Sir Roger Moore as Jasper ; James Remar as Arnold Valecross ; Ian Ogilvy as The Fixer/older Xander ; Adam Woodward as Xander ; Enrique Murciano as Inspector John Henry Fernack ; Kyle Horne as Agent Cooper ; Sammi Hanratty as Zooey Valecross ; Greg Grunberg as Detective Garces ; Thomas Kretschmann as Rayt Marius ; Yani Gellman as Doyle Cosentino ; Kristy Mitchell as Mrs. Templar ; Beatrice Rosen as Katherine Valecross ; Melissa Bolona as Hotel Guest ; Jason Brooks as Captain Miller ; Christopher Villiers as Arthur Templar ; Louis Hynes as Young Simon Templar ; Femi Elufowoju Jr. as Ezekiel Ibaka ; Alec Secareanu as Bashir ; Richard Ashton as Vadim / Gerry ; Andrew Pleavin as Andrei ; Sonalii Castillo as Sonali Alves 

Question: Who was the screenwriter for The Saint?
Answer: Wesley Strick.
Jonathan Hensleigh.
Jonathan Blair Hensleigh.