Filmed in 2013, it was not picked up for a series.
Additional footage was shot in 2015, on-location in Romania. The feature-length version of the pilot was released as a television movie in 2017.
Sir Roger Moore played Simon Templar in The Saint (1962). Ian Ogilvy played the role in Return of the Saint (1978).
The ringtone on Simon Templar's cell phone is the theme of the original television show.