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How close were we to seeing Brosnan in 'Casino Royale'?
http://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/articles/bond_21_brosnan_back.php3?t=bond21&s=bond21&id=0915
Remember these stories? There was a time when Brosnan looked like he would do CR even after the debacle surrounding his departure. What was this story about? Was he going to return? Do we know anything more because there was a time before Craig's announcement where it looked like Brosnan would have returned.
Remember these stories? There was a time when Brosnan looked like he would do CR even after the debacle surrounding his departure. What was this story about? Was he going to return? Do we know anything more because there was a time before Craig's announcement where it looked like Brosnan would have returned.
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So to answer the OP's question, he was not close in the slightest.
This ^ is all there really is to say about it, IMO.
I would have loved a 5th Brosnan movie- but certainly not Casino Royale. They would have inevitably 'rewritten it' so that it wasn't the first assignment and it likely would have been Casino Royale in title only. And that alone would have pissed people off
While were at it, here's a nice pic of these two bad asses together ...
I really wonder how much of it is accurate, someone may have mentioned out of frustration that maybe they should consider sticking with Brosnan for one more movie when casting became difficult, but that would be as far as I can possibly see. Sony coming to the inevitable conclusion that if it ain't broke, don't fix it? Inevitable? It was broke and needed fixing. And not only broke, but used as well. Reading the article again, it seems that Brosnan was the only one giving credit and credibility to the rumour... and the only one really wanting Brosnan back!
Nonetheless I think Sony were putting pressure on EON to deliver a hit hence why Pierce's name was brought back into the fold. Had the prods intended to make a normal Bond movie with a new actor playing the lead then they would likely have caved under the pressure in my opinion and Pierce would have done a 5th.
The thing that gets me is that Pierce still looked like Bond in 2006:
I'd like to have seen him leave on a great movie, but such is life. At least he was able to do at least one classic/legendary Bond film with GE.
Thankyou sir.
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The Brosnan Era was essentially a nostalgia act. It was Cubby's Bond. The Craig Era is purely Barbera Broccoli and Michael Wilson's Bond.
It was all 'painting by numbers' wasn't it? An exercise in ticking off the boxes.
Really? That's a bit unfair on Cubby, who produced all the classic movies and whose last film was LTK. The Brosnan era had very little to do with Cubby IMO - and everything to do with Babs and MGW finding their feet (or not). Apart from the very poor decision to cast Bond in the first place, I feel there is little blame that can be laid at Cubby's feet for what happened to the series over the following decade. The Brosnan films definitely felt like a pastiche of the Cubby era - but very poor pastiches and you can't really blame Cubby for that. It was Cubby who cast Dalton and wanted to take the films back to first principles - much as happened with the casting of Craig. The Brosnan era was an unfortunate aberaiton. The best I can say for Brosnan is that the series was commercially in a difficult place and needed to play it safe to reestablish itself - whether it needed to carry on playing it safe for four films is another matter.
Very true. I'll re-phrase. "A poor man's Cubby Broccoli Era". I think that pretty much summed up Brosnan's tenure.
Agreed.
In a way, even the casting decision of taking Brosnan came from Broccoli. So in 2005, when Brosnan wanted to do one last Bond, he was clinging on a perception of himself that dated back to the 80s. Then, and even more in the 90s when GE was in the pipeline, everybody wanted Brosnan: the producers wanted Brosnan, the public wanted Brosnan, Brosnan wanted Brosnan. I am exagerating of course, but not that much. Brosnan built his pre-Bond career on the role he didn't have yet. In 2005, Brosnan wanted Brosnan, but people had moved on.
I naively believed that EON could not make a bad casting choice when it came to Bond,as all their previous decisions had been largely inspired. How they proved me wrong with the Broz!
I knew him from Remington Steele, Lawnmower Man and Mrs Doubtfire. I was a bit skeptical, but gave him the benefit of doubt. Shouldnt have done that, although I did another three times. Shows what a forgiving dupe I am. I can safely say that I would not have bothered seeing a fifth Brosnan film.
"Bond... Wrong Bond."
I do agree, but I think it had a lot do with Babs and MGW's mindset back then. They were a bit more fearful and reverent of the Bond legacy. It wasn't till the Craig era they knew that the brand had gone stale because of this rationale and they went in a new direction.
But had they bought on a good writer and director for Pierce (ala Logan and Mendes) there was still another film in him. Look at SF that film if anything dosen't really fit the DC era and if anything works better as a DAD sequel. I'm not saying Brosnan should have made SF because Craig was amazing in that film but had the prods had the balls 10 years ago Pierce could have got something better.
It was never Brosnan's fault it was the material being handed to him.
However, as others have noted, a Dalton or a Craig could have done A LOT more with Brosnan's scripts. There are some meaty scenes in there amongst the dross, but he wasted pretty much every opportunity that came his way.
I'll have to respectfully disagree with the Skyfall statement. Just because it doesn't follow the CR/QOS storyline does't mean it's not a Craig film. Could you imagine Brosnan acting in the M death scene? The audience would be the ones doing the wince-face. Skyfall is very much in the Craig/Dalton vein. I needs a Bond who can act given the personal nature of the story.
And @Getafix is right. Brosnan was given some really good scenes to play (the 006 confrontation at the memorial, the Kaufman scene, confronting Electra before killing her in cold blood). But he never made the most of it. He can't blame anyone but himself for that.
The Elektra scene isn't his finest moment, but with Kaufman and particularly statue park, I don't see how they'd have been played any better. Craig would have given it a different slant, but I don't know about Dalton and I love Dalton.
Could Craig save DAD?