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 O Santo (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.