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Antonio Banderas won the top Cannes Film Festival acting prize for his work in ‘Pain and Glory.’ (Photo by Manolo Pavon; courtesy Sony Pictures Classics)

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticAlan Parker, who died today at 76, was remembered today by colleagues and friends, with Andrew Lloyd Webber calling his Evita collaborator “one of the few directors to truly understand musicals on screen” and Matthew Modine, who starred in Parker’s 1984 drama Birdy, praising the director as a “great artist” who “transformed” the actor’s life.And Rocketman director Dexter Fletcher explained the pivotal role Parker played in his life by casting the

By Anthony D'Alessandro

By Justin Kroll

'Rocketman' director Dexter Fletcher has his sights on the '70s punks for his next biopic

Variety is reporting that none other than Rocketman helmer Dexter Fletcher is set to direct a redo of The Saint for Paramount Pictures. The trade says that the new film, which is written by Seth Grahame-Smith, is based on the original 1920s novel series written by Leslie Charteris, a property that was turned into a popular television series and then a later movie in the late 1990s with Val Kilmer.

It’s a logical comparison: “Rocketman” and “Bohemian Rhapsody” are both biopics about British rock stars whose careers launched in the 1970s — Elton John and late Queen frontman Freddie Mercury, respectively — and both were directed by Dexter Fletcher. So we had to ask the latest Academy Award winner for his thoughts.

The film will be projected onto a huge ultra-HD screen with an orchestra on stage

But we’ll have to wait a while for it

Over the weekend, Dexter Fletcher’s “Rocketman” received a surge on the Oscar buzz meter. Elton John, whose life the film is based on, won a Golden Globe for “(I’m Gonna) Love Me Again” beating out Beyonce (for “The Lion King”) and Taylor Swift (for “Cats”).