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What if Pierce Brosnan played Bond in the 80s


Recap: Pierce Brosnan's wife the late-Cassandra Harris had a role in "For Your Eyes Only" which starred Roger Moore as James Bond. Pierce Brosnan happened to be visiting the set in Corfu in circa. 1980/81. There he met the Bond producers and Roger Moore. Cubby believed that Brosnan would be a perfect candidate to replace Moore in the foreseeable future. By 1986, Moore was gone from the role and Brosnan was considered for the part along with Timothy Dalton, Sam Neill and Mel Gibson. By the time he had been known to audiences for the TV series "Remington Steele", which was cancelled by 1986, which would allow Brosnan to accept the role, however with the news about Brosnan being the next Bond gaining fans attention, the repeats of Remington Steele increased it's ratings which allowed NBC to renew Remington Steele for another series, and Brosnan was out only to be replaced by Dalton as Bond.

WI Scenario:
Dalton was a darker more edgier Bond, Brosnan had wanted to go in that direction but not the way Dalton did it. Brosnan was very much about how Bond reacts with other people how he has relationships and past relationships and how he has to be his mind set in interacting with these people. When it comes to the Living Daylights, the biggest difference with the relationship with Brosnan's Bond and Kara would have infinite times bigger in the film. A love triangle would have appeared between Bond, Kara and Koskov which would have TLD's main focus, it would have been an interesing dynamic taking the script in a new direction with a rivalry between Bond and the villain with both of them fighting over Kara. Had Brosnan starred in TLD, Brosnan's Bond would have been very different and audiences would have been more open to him. However I think that Brosnan not ending up to play Bond in '86 was a blessing in disguise, if you look at him at the time , he was too young (I know he was 33), still he would have done a great job, he is a great Bond, but it would would have taken away some of the stuff from TLD with a younger Bond than Dalton.
Licence To Kill would have been worse with Brosnan, in the OTL, LTK was tailor made for Dalton's Bond and his style and tone, but with Brosnan it would have been like with Roger Moore in The Man with the Golden Gun where he was to play are more serious Bond than he was use to. It wouldn't suit Brosnan's Bond and it's reception would have been even worse with Brosnan than it was with Dalton. After LTK, the six year hiatus still happens, Brosnan'a wife would die of cancer in '91, and doubts if he would play Bond again. EON and MGM still want him for more Bond movies, but have a list of actors that could potentially replace him including Sean Bean, Paul McGaan, Liam Neeson and James Purefoy, however by 1994, the lawsuit would be settled and Brosnan would return for "Goldeneye", in which would be his third movies and like Goldfinger with Sean Connery, TSPWLM with Moore and Skyfall with Daniel Craig, this would be a high point for Brosnan with audiences warming up to him again. Tommorrow Never Dies, The World is Not Enough and Die Another Day would still be released as they were but there BO numbers would be a lot better, but Brosnan would end his tenure on a low point much like Moore in AVTAK, but would break Moore's record as the longest serving Bond with 15 years (1987-2002), and like Connery and Moore, he would still be a popular Bond.

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I don’t like Dalton as Bond and for TLD I wish that either Brosnan had been available or they just brought Moore back.

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Brosnan was awful. The worst Bond by far. Comes across like someone who should be prancing around on a catwalk or modelling underwear in a catalogue rather than being a killer.

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