The Sun reports that actor Pierce Brosnan has spoken out about how the next 007 film is progressing and the word ain't great. Right now the project is in all too early stages with the script still barely begun and no confirmations for Pierce's return:
"The bar for these movies was raised so high with the last one (Die Another Day) and they don’t seem to know how to improve on it. They don’t have a script or a director so the rumours that we will begin filming in the autumn are just rumours. They’re too scared. They feel they have to top themselves in a genre which is just spectacle and a huge bang for your buck. But I think you can have your cake and eat it.. You can have real character work, a character storyline and a thriller aspect and all the kinds of quips, asides, the explosions and the women".
Despite his reservations about the direction that the franchise is going in, he's certainly not quiting it seems: ""It is nowhere near a done deal -- but they know where to find me.
"I was prepared to do a fifth film and then walk away and we had started negotiations.
I want to follow through but conversations and telephone calls have dried up.
We started talking about the fifth so this paralysis that has set in is rather surprising.
The producers have reached an impasse as far as I can tell. They don't know what to do. So, for me, it's business as usual. I shall just carry on with creating work for myself.
I certainly would love to do a fifth Bond and then bow out but if this last one is to be my last, then so be it. My contract is up. They can do it or not".
If they return the franchise back to the mold of say "From Russia with Love" then Brosnan confirmed he'd definitely be interested in doing something like that. When asked about rumours that they'd next do "Casino Royale" but use only the title and none of its contents, he responded ""That's ludicrous. It's so damn crazy! That's absolutely sheer lunacy because Casino Royale is the blueprint of the Bond character. You find out more about James Bond in that book than in any of the other books".
Thanks to 'Reggie'
