Does Pierce Brosnan want to be James Bond again?

[Captain Nash]

Fine by me.

Terrible taste BJ. You should be ashamed of yourself......

Are you kidding? Brosnan's return would be ratings gold. Just think of it. The man who saved the franchise, TWICE, repairing the damage left by Dalton and CR-egg.

Bj this is why I never take you seriously.
Pierce is 57.
57!
He's as old as Sir Roger Moore was when he made AVTAK. Even if the role was vacant, it would be a terrible idea.
Pierce is finished with the role, let it go. Unless you really do want to put a nail in the coffin of the Bond franchise.
Of course you already think that's happened with the arrival of Craig.
Bring Brosnan back, and the Bond series would be finished for good.
Who wants to see a geriatric Bond running around?

(I'll await the typical Craig bashing replies)

[The Sweeney]

Fine by me.

Terrible taste BJ. You should be ashamed of yourself......

Are you kidding? Brosnan's return would be ratings gold. Just think of it. The man who saved the franchise, TWICE, repairing the damage left by Dalton and CR-egg.

Bj this is why I never take you seriously.
Pierce is 57.
57!
He's as old as Sir Roger Moore was when he made AVTAK. Even if the role was vacant, it would be a terrible idea.
Pierce is finished with the role, let it go. Unless you really do want to put a nail in the coffin of the Bond franchise.
Of course you already think that's happened with the arrival of Craig.
Bring Brosnan back, and the Bond series would be finished for good.
Who wants to see a geriatric Bond running around?

(I'll await the typical Craig bashing replies)

I don't understand wanting Brozza back either, not when he is nearly 60. DAF, FYEO, OP, NSNA and AVTAK prove that overweight, 60 year old looking men, huffing and puffing, close to getting their pension and bus pass, do not work as Bond.

I'm awaiting remarks of Craig looking 60 and playing Bond, but physically he looks extremely fit - despite what you think of his face. And Bond should look trim and athletic, which Craig does. Brosnan doesn't.

[Kristatos]

Bj this is why I never take you seriously.
Pierce is 57.
57!
He's as old as Sir Roger Moore was when he made AVTAK. Even if the role was vacant, it would be a terrible idea.
Pierce is finished with the role, let it go. Unless you really do want to put a nail in the coffin of the Bond franchise.

To be fair, I think Pierce looks better than Sir Roger did at 57, but yeah, I think BJ has a tendency to conflate his own personal preferences with public demand (eg: his belief that Hugh Jackman is this Will Smith-style megastar that audiences will flock to see in anything, when he has never really had a hit movie outside the X-Men franchise, with the possible exception of Van Helsing).

[The Sweeney]

Bj this is why I never take you seriously.
Pierce is 57.
57!
He's as old as Sir Roger Moore was when he made AVTAK. Even if the role was vacant, it would be a terrible idea.
Pierce is finished with the role, let it go. Unless you really do want to put a nail in the coffin of the Bond franchise.

To be fair, I think Pierce looks better than Sir Roger did at 57, but yeah, I think BJ has a tendency to conflate his own personal preferences with public demand (eg: his belief that Hugh Jackman is this Will Smith-style megastar that audiences will flock to see in anything, when he has never really had a hit movie outside the X-Men franchise, with the possible exception of Van Helsing).

You can always rely on Kris for a bit of sanity.....

[Mazer Rackham]

Brozza is in the better shape than any of his predecessors at this age. He has the appeal. Him taking over the role A La DAF or another NSNA type production might not be that great a deal for him. A thoughtfully put together Bond movie customized to Brozza could work very well. Not the young Bond template, where even the mighty Craig is an old weather beaten canoe. There is a story they could skillfully tell with an older Brozza Bond if Eon had any imagination left. Which it seems they don't. What are they going to do now that Bourne is rebooting?

I doubt anything official would ever happen, although we can't completely count it out.

[katied]

Pierce is in shape..but I doubt EON would have him back. He's burned his bridges.

[Dr. No]

Pierce is in shape..but I doubt EON would have him back. He's burned his bridges.

So did connery.
I think pierce will do another Bond film, if it is official, or if his character even has the name james bond is anybody's guess

[katied]

You may be right. The idea of his doing something unofficial is a good one..as long as it's not something silly like Warhead.

[Dr. No]

You may be right. The idea of his doing something unofficial is a good one..as long as it's not something silly like Warhead.

Somthing like the Rock without Michal Bay would be to my liking

[katied]

You get Michael Bay involved and there would be explosions.Lots and lots of explosions. But explosions are normal for Bond films so there would have to be a couple, at least!

[FormerBondFan]

Brozza is in the better shape than any of his predecessors at this age. He has the appeal. Him taking over the role A La DAF or another NSNA type production might not be that great a deal for him. A thoughtfully put together Bond movie customized to Brozza could work very well. Not the young Bond template, where even the mighty Craig is an old weather beaten canoe. There is a story they could skillfully tell with an older Brozza Bond if Eon had any imagination left. Which it seems they don't. What are they going to do now that Bourne is rebooting?

I doubt anything official would ever happen, although we can't completely count it out.

What about a regular action blockbuster? Pierce could do that as lead actor.

[FormerBondFan]

You may be right. The idea of his doing something unofficial is a good one..as long as it's not something silly like Warhead.

Somthing like the Rock without Michal Bay would be to my liking

The problem is that would be any unofficial Bond since Eon has all the rights to Bond so the best bet we have is a regular Brosnan action blockbuster. And what he needs is a right director like Tarantino. There may be age limits to playing Bond but not for being an action hero.

[Captain Nash]

Brozza is in the better shape than any of his predecessors at this age. He has the appeal. Him taking over the role A La DAF or another NSNA type production might not be that great a deal for him. A thoughtfully put together Bond movie customized to Brozza could work very well. Not the young Bond template, where even the mighty Craig is an old weather beaten canoe. There is a story they could skillfully tell with an older Brozza Bond if Eon had any imagination left. Which it seems they don't. What are they going to do now that Bourne is rebooting?

I doubt anything official would ever happen, although we can't completely count it out.

Still pointlessly clinging to the hope that Pierce could return to the role of Bond?
Got some bad news for ya Maz. It aint gonna happen.
Though you and bj can live in bizarro fantasy land if you like.

"Come on Maz, let's go watch geriatric Bond films, with an actor well past his prime."
"Hooray for everything bj...let's skip all the way there."

[bjmdds]

Brozza is in the better shape than any of his predecessors at this age. He has the appeal. Him taking over the role A La DAF or another NSNA type production might not be that great a deal for him. A thoughtfully put together Bond movie customized to Brozza could work very well. Not the young Bond template, where even the mighty Craig is an old weather beaten canoe. There is a story they could skillfully tell with an older Brozza Bond if Eon had any imagination left. Which it seems they don't. What are they going to do now that Bourne is rebooting?

I doubt anything official would ever happen, although we can't completely count it out.

What about a regular action blockbuster? Pierce could do that as lead actor.

Pierce's non-Bond career has FAR exceeded CR-egg's and it looks like that trend will now continue. FBF, ever wish Shatner was in a Bond film to some extent?

[katied]

True that about Pierce's post-Bond film career-compared to Craig's non-Bond films,anyways.

[bjmdds]

Bj this is why I never take you seriously.
Pierce is 57.
57!
He's as old as Sir Roger Moore was when he made AVTAK. Even if the role was vacant, it would be a terrible idea.
Pierce is finished with the role, let it go. Unless you really do want to put a nail in the coffin of the Bond franchise.

To be fair, I think Pierce looks better than Sir Roger did at 57, but yeah, I think BJ has a tendency to conflate his own personal preferences with public demand (eg: his belief that Hugh Jackman is this Will Smith-style megastar that audiences will flock to see in anything, when he has never really had a hit movie outside the X-Men franchise, with the possible exception of Van Helsing).

You can always rely on Kris for a bit of sanity.....

Sanity you ask Sweeney, when CR-egg is Bond? Utter IN-sanity to the nth degree. ANYONE would be better than this rotten egg as Bond.

[The Sweeney]

Why don't we compare Brosnan's films during his time as Bond with Craig's films right now. That would be a fairer comparison. Brosnan now has the luxury of double the amount of Bond films below his belt - he did 4, Craig has only done 2.

When Craig finally retires from Bond 2 movies later, let's see how he does then. That would be a fairer comparison to how Brozza is doing these days.

(I don't know why I'm even bothering responding to this, because I couldn't really give a toss about either actor outside of Bond anyway..... )

[bjmdds]

It's because you are a passionate advocate of CR-egg as Bond, blame Eon, not him for the failure of QOSTBM, whereas I am your polar opposite in that regard. I agree FRWL was one of the best ever Bond films, so we agree on some things.

[The Sweeney]

It's because you are a passionate advocate of CR-egg as Bond, blame Eon, not him for the failure of QOSTBM, whereas I am your polar opposite in that regard. I agree FRWL was one of the best ever Bond films, so we agree on some things.

BJ, you do amaze me sometimes with your bizarre thinking. How can you not blame EON for QoS????

That would be like me blaming Brozza for DAD (which I don't).

[bjmdds]

Bizzare thinking? Sanity? With Cr-egg in the role you jest, don't you? Brosnan's acting in DAD was fine. He looked the part of Bond, the story stunk after the title song, but I can watch it. CR-egg's influence affected QOS and as the leading man, he takes a HUGE hit for that trashy rubbish of a Bond film. Eon is to blame as well, but you divorce him from this monstrosity of a failure and deem him probably 10% the problem, with Broccoli 90% the problem. To me, it's 50/50 with QOS. Craig never once said he did not like the script and wanted a different direction, did he? In fact, he praised it after it was completed.