What if Brosnan played Bond from 1986 until 2012?

jorgem1 · November 2012

It was in the 11th hour when Brosnan almost got the Bond role but he lost it to Timothy Dalton, due to his contract to Remington Steele. Could you imagine if Brosnan started Bond in 1986, from The Living Daylights, Licence To Kill, up to Skyfall, (even the canceled 1991/92 Bond film TPOAL)? We've imagined if Sean Connery played Bond until 1985. So we have only two long Bond eras in the franchise. Sean Connery (1962-1985) and Pierce Brosnan (1986-2012).

Brosnan_fan · November 2012

Hmmmm.... , interesting, but no. Let's say Brosnan got the part back in 1986, and he did TLD and LTK. HE would have been the one to have fallen victim to the 6-year lawsuit debacle, not Dalton, and he probably might have been the one to make the premature exit from his contract with only two films under his belt.

Added to which, and personally speaking, even as a (ahem) Brosnan fan :v , I would not have liked to see a 55+ year-old Pierce Brosnan as Bond.

DTReinsma · November 2012

I wish he had taken over the role since 1986. He likely would have waited out the 6 year gap and I would be so happy that he would have 6 movies under his belt instead of 4. However, I believe DAD would still have been his last.

Sir Miles · November 2012

As Pierce has himself said....that in hindsight he wasn't really ready for Bond back in 1986....and I have to agree with him on that...

Q and M · November 2012

i wonder could Timothy Dalton possibly have been bond from 1969 to 2002?

Virgil37 · November 2012

He would have been great in TLD and LTK. I always had the feeling that he himself would have rather played the more serious spy thrillers that TLD and LTK were, and not DAD.

IMO, had TLD been his first Bond, he would have survived the 6 year gap and gone on to play Bond again in GE. What would have happenned after GE, I don´t know, but I clearly remember that period of 1989-1994. It was like, "Dalton is cool, but man, that Pierce Brosnan was the one that should have been cast". There was a feeling in the air that Brosnan should and would eventually be Bond. LTK was my first Bond in cinema, so I imagined Brosnan in that type of gritty Bond movie, it would have been great. Have you seen "the Fourth Protocol", where Brosnan plays a cold blooded russian spy? that´s how I would have liked his Bond, closer to Craig´s.

However, there´s no way I can see him playing Bond till 2012. 2002 was just about it really, he was 50 in 2003, and that´s already past it IMO for Bond.

BIG TAM · November 2012

I don't think the Brosnan of 1987 would have been the same as the one in 1995. Given his ruthless performance in THE FOURTH PROTOCOL I'd probably prefer his earlier incarnation. I think by 1995 he'd smoothed over the rough edges to become a more popular 007 for the masses.

Interestingly, I do think Brosnan could have carried on in CASINO ROYALE. He seems to have aged better than Moore so maybe he could have gone on a bit longer. But the transition to another actor may have been more awkward after that so perhaps it was for the best he handed over to Craig when he did.

Tobias · November 2012

BIG TAM wrote:

I don't think the Brosnan of 1987 would have been the same as the one in 1995. Given his ruthless performance in THE FOURTH PROTOCOL I'd probably prefer his earlier incarnation. I think by 1995 he'd smoothed over the rough edges to become a more popular 007 for the masses.

Interestingly, I do think Brosnan could have carried on in CASINO ROYALE. He seems to have aged better than Moore so maybe he could have gone on a bit longer. But the transition to another actor may have been more awkward after that so perhaps it was for the best he handed over to Craig when he did.

License ToKill was suited more for Tim Dalton as the screenplay was for him i remember looking at the back of my LTK video cover before dvds were out and it had said that the screenplay was suited for Tim

What if Brosnan played Bond from 1986 until 2012?

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