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Bond 21 with Brosnan. How would you have it?

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  • thelordflasheartthelordflasheart
    Posts: 1,370
    If Brosnan made a fifth Bond film - and I can't imagine there ever being one that could be better than the CR that we got - then I think they should have looked to GE as a template. It was classic, classy, fun, a little over the top but not too over the top. But I think the key would be getting Martin Campbell to return. Brosnan is a limited actor (at least when it comes to Bond) so I think that more rides on the choice of director than with any other actor who has played the part. Campbell brought the best performance out of Brosnan as he forced him to underplay it nicely - fans of the more smarmy and smug Brosnan of his later films will obviously disagree.
  • LudovicoLudovico
    Posts: 15,124
    DAD was not Brosnan's fault, however he was already getting too old in it and I don't think he had an extra one in him. Most definitely not CR. Maybe, MAYBE he could have ended with an OP type of Bond movie, however I believe DAD had the franchise reach a point of non return where a reboot was not merely necessary, it was essential.
  • Agent7FAgent7F
    Posts: 825
    Well I never saw any of Brosnan film on Screen only Goldeneye & TWINE. I just glad there no 5th Bond movie Brosnan
  • RogueAgentRogueAgent
    Posts: 12,526
    Had Brosnan done a 5th? It would not have been CR! But a more realistic movie like they did for Moore after MR.
  • Agent003Agent003
    Posts: 18
    I think they should have made CR in 2002 rather than making that mess of a movie that we know as DAD. Making CR in 2002 would have been great for the 40th anniversary and would have given Pierce Brosnan another chance to make a great Bond movie and if he was lucky he maybe could have made one more movie after that.
  • echoecho 007 in New York
    edited January 2013 Posts: 6,304
    I think four films were enough for Brosnan.

    By all accounts he is a nice man and a consummate professional...perhaps too nice. Other Bonds (Craig and Dalton, probably) would have refused to say some of the DAD dialogue and would have forced a rewrite, which would have been better for all of us.
    Ludovico wrote:
    DAD was not Brosnan's fault, however he was already getting too old in it and I don't think he had an extra one in him. Most definitely not CR. Maybe, MAYBE he could have ended with an OP type of Bond movie, however I believe DAD had the franchise reach a point of non return where a reboot was not merely necessary, it was essential.

    I don't think there *had* to be a reboot after Bond 20. It could have been like FYEO after MR, or with a bunch of recasts like TLD or GE.

    It was because they wanted to do CR as Bond's first mission that they rebooted.
  • SlyFox007SlyFox007
    edited January 2013 Posts: 414
    Let's see . . .

    Casino Royale starring Pierce Brosnan. Instead of an agent that has just been granted a Double-Oh, Bond is his usual unflappable self, the best agent in the Service. Instead of a B&W PTS showing him making his first 2 kills, the opening mission is to sabotage the brothel (or other chosen source of income) that LeChiffre is collecting his funding from.

    Instead of being Bond's first mission as a Double-Oh, maybe the mission somehow recalls his first mission instead.

    John Cleese returns as the new Q, briefing Bond on his latest gadgets.

    Vesper is a fully fledged field operative, like Bond, working with a foreign intelligence agency.

    Most of the action takes place throughout the Hotel Royale, where assassins frequently try to dispatch Bond before he can make it to the casino to take on LeChiffre.

    It all comes down to a game of Baccarat, like in the book . . .

    Until Bond finds out the much larger plot LeChiffre's winnings would have funded, and the two duel to the death at LeChiffre's secret lair to stop LeChiffre's Plan B from kicking in.

    Vesper is dramatically revealed to be a double agent, but redeems herself just in time for Bond to be emotionally effected by her tragic death.
  • MrBondMrBond Station S
    Posts: 2,044
    I wouldn't like to see Brosnan doing CR. But something more in the veins of FYEO. Perhaps it could have used parts of the un-used first draft for GE?
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
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    MrBond wrote:
    I wouldn't like to see Brosnan doing CR. But something more in the veins of FYEO. Perhaps it could have used parts of the un-used first draft for GE?

    What was it about?
  • MrBondMrBond Station S
    Posts: 2,044
    0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 wrote:
    MrBond wrote:
    I wouldn't like to see Brosnan doing CR. But something more in the veins of FYEO. Perhaps it could have used parts of the un-used first draft for GE?

    What was it about?

    It was about an older Trevelyan, who used to be M who defected to the Sovietunion in the mid 80's. Bond is clearly displayed as Daltons Bond. The whole script is very different to how the movie became in the end.

    I've got the draft saved if someone is interested!

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