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Should Brosnan have done a 5th Bond film?

posted 11 years ago by TMC-4
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After watching Die Another Day recently (which I don't think deserves as much hate as it gets), I got to thinking about how Brosnan got replaced by Daniel Craig. I love Craig as Bond, I think he's the best since Connery. But I think Pierce had another Bond film left in him. He was 49 when DAD came out and while his age was starting to show he wasn't exactly Roger Moore either. I do think he had another good Bond film in him, and maybe he could've got a better send off than Die Another Day.

[–] ripleyclone8 11 years ago

I agree man 100% percent. Pierce always talked about his desire to do a fifth film before and after his resignation as Bond. I felt like they could of made a FANTASTIC outing for him. In my opinion Die Another Day is perfect though. Its over the top action, high entertainment value and wonderful visuals and actions scenes cap off his 3 previous films nicely. Pierce is my favorite Bond and Die Another Day is my all time favorite. It was the first Bond film I saw in the theaters and Pierce was the Bond that I grew up with. I miss him! I hope the next Bond brings back the style and magnetism that we are missing in Craig. I want the Bond films to be fun again!

[–] ActionJunkie007 11 years ago

He did do one more, though you have to play it on PS2, Gamecube, or the original Xbox. ;) I STILL have this game and I play it every year or two just for the experience of that 5th Pierce "film".

If you havent played it, I STRONGLY recommend you do so. This game had a HUGE production and has the entire cast, both vocal and likiness, and every single thing you love about Bond is there. It has two bond girls(shannon elizabeth and Heidi Klum), William Dafoe(green goblin fron spidey) is the Villian, Cleese as Q, the Aston Martin, The opening credits compelte with full length theme song by Mya, and the writer of this "film" wrote/co wrote Goldeneye, Tomorrow never dies and world is not enough!!

Pierce has one liners, and the film is just so fleshed out, you will truly feel like you are watchign a film. But its just better because, your playign it!! You are Pierce!! This game totally brings out the kid in me, as do the movies, and Im tellign you, you will not be disappointed. It was released in 2004, the exact time a REAL 5th Bond film would have been released.

[–] MemphisMajesty 11 years ago

It's hard to say a guy who only had one good movie during his tenure deserved a 5th. But I do agree that Die Another Day was still a TERRIBLE send off!!!

[–] themiddleman-1 11 years ago

Casino Royale should have been Brosnan's last, it would have been a wonderful finale for him.

[–] TMC-4 11 years ago

I'm not entirely sure that something like Casino Royale would've been good for Brosnan. For some reason, I think that it being the first ever Bond book that Ian Fleming ever had published, it made perfect sense that it would be chosen as the story to launch a fresh, reboot.

[–] themiddleman-1 11 years ago

Take out the "it's Bond's first mission" prequel/reboot subplot, it would have been a wonderful Bond film for Brosnan.

[–] tralycr_c-1 11 years ago

Take out the "it's Bond's first mission" prequel/reboot subplot, it would have been a wonderful Bond film for Brosnan.

It would have been a generic mess like TWINE.

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[–] thelastfaceyouwillsee 11 years ago

I was starting to find him irritating. In interviews he was becoming vocal about the producers, saying he wanted more realistic sex scenes, some nudity (because they had had to choreograph shots so no nipples came into view). At the time I thought he was talking himself out of the franchise and guess what? he was. DAD is still watchable despite its flaws but the hiatus and reboot were definitely a good thing. Daniel Craig made the part his own no matter what the haters say.

"Remember, you have to make it home to get paid" (The Dogs of War)

[–] tralycr_c-1 11 years ago

I always found him irritating in interviews, more so after TND. He was always talking down about the franchise, as if Bond was beneath an actor of his caliber, and was always complaining that the films' quality wasn't up to snuff, though he never did anything to push that quality himself. He was an empty suit collecting a paycheck and nothing more. The women in his films were a thousand times more interesting than he was.

There is a man...he travels fast...he has purpose...he brings violence and destruction.

[–] ceth26 10 years ago

To be honest, he shouldn't even have done a FOURTH film; in this he looked old and haggard and faded, and even his acting seemed a little tired. Just a poor show all round.

[–] sawfan1414 10 years ago

The answer is a resounding YES. Brosnan very much deserved a 5th film and the role was ripped away from him. People are forgetting one simple FACT. Pierce Brosnan is THE reason James Bond and Daniel Craig as Bond exists right now, he very much deserved more than 4 movies.

IMO Brosnan could have done 7 without overstaying his welcome. Nix Dalton like originally planned, The Living Daylights - Die Another Day, and then do the film he originally wanted after DAD. Maybe do Everything or Nothing as a film. Honestly I'm shocked they didn't make that into a Bond movie.

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[–] sawfan1414 10 years ago

It was only ripped from him after he was far too greedy with his demands. He could have done another one, but the $$$ were more important to him so EON waved him goodbye.

Greedy?? He got paid $10-11 million for Die Another Day. He asked for somewhere around $14-15 for the 5th. How the hell is that greed? Craig got 15 for CR. It's logical business for one of the biggest actors in the world at the time. Money wasn't really a factor anyway.

Ron *beep* Swanson is the greatest thing that ever happened to television.

[–] robhiphop 9 years ago

It was the right time for Brosnan to go, if for no other reason than he was getting too old for the part.

A View to a Kill and Octopussy might've been awful Bond movies anyway, but they certainly weren't helped by the fact that Roger Moore would've looked more at home in a retirement village than he did jumping off buildings and beating up bad guys. If Brosnan had stuck around for another, he would've been well into his fifties by that point and in severe danger of falling into the same pitfalls that late period Moore suffered from.

Nobody wants a geriatric Bond. Not only is it unconvincing, but seeing beautiful twenty something starlets getting seduced by a man old enough to be their Grandad is just plain creepy.

In some ways, Die Another Day was actually Brosnan's best performance as Bond. He did look very comfortable in the role by that point, and he even got the chance to display a (small) bit of acting range and some actual vulnerability, due to the whole North Korean prison sequence. It's just a shame that the movie completely fell off a cliff about an hour in and transformed itself into one of the worst ever Bond movies, otherwise it would've been a fitting coda for Brosnan to go out on.

At any rate, by the time Casino Royale came around, Bond was well overdue for an overhaul, which of course meant it was also time for a new Bond. Brosnan really wouldn't have been right for the kind of Bond that was reimagined in Daniel Craig.

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