Pierce Brosnan as James Bond in ‘Goldeneye.’ Photograph: MGM.
Preview:
- Pierce Brosnan has joked that he’d like to return to the Bond franchise.
- The actor says he’d return if requested.
- And his ‘The Thursday Homicide Membership’ co-star Helen Mirren has commented on the concept of a feminine Bond.
Because the information broke that A) Amazon MGM Studios took over artistic management of the Bond franchise and B) ‘Dune’ director Denis Villeneuve was introduced in to supervise improvement of the subsequent large display screen iteration of 007’s adventures, there was hypothesis about who may play the lead.
Now, out doing press for brand new Netflix homicide thriller film ‘The Thursday Homicide Membership’, Pierce Brosnan –– who famously performed Bond between 1995 and 2002 –– has weighed in on whether or not he’d come again. And it seems he would!
Launch Date: Aug 28, 2025
Run Time: 1 hr 58 min
Brosnan, in fact, wasn’t being solely critical along with his feedback, however you possibly can learn extra about what he stated beneath…
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What did Pierce Brosnan say a few Bond film return?
Pierce Brosnan as James Bond in ‘Die One other Day.’ Photograph: MGM.
Speaking with the Radio Occasions, Brosnan addressed if he thought there was nonetheless a spot for him within the James Bond world:
“My spouse Keely [Shaye Smith] and I’ve been listening to the drumbeat of expectation of who’s going to be the subsequent James Bond. There are lots of nice candidates on the market, and I’m certain they’re going to make it a spectacle of pleasure. I don’t suppose anybody needs to see a craggy, 72-year-old Bond, but when Villeneuve had one thing up his sleeve I might have a look at it in a heartbeat. Why not? It’s nice leisure. It might be plenty of laughs. Bald caps, prosthetics… who is aware of?”
And what? We’d be joyful to see Brosnan taking over the function of M, the top of MI6 who’s often the one to ship Bond out on his missions (and complain about his wayward ways).
Within the more moderen Bond motion pictures, the character has been performed by Judi Dench and Ralph Fiennes.
But Brosnan wasn’t the one particular person weighing in on the way forward for Bond. His ’Thursday Homicide Membership’ co-star Helen Mirren additionally broached the difficulty.
What did Helen Mirren say about Bond?
Helen Mirren in ‘The Thursday Homicide Membership’. Photograph Credit score: Giles Keyte / Netflix. © 2025 Netflix, Inc.
In accordance with Mirren –– who performs a former intelligence operative in ‘Thursday Homicide Membership’ –– and was speaking to Saga journal, she thinks that regardless of calls for a lady to lastly play Bond, the character ought to keep as he’s:
“I’m such a feminist, however James Bond must be a man. You possibly can’t have a girl. It simply does not work. James Bond must be James Bond, in any other case it turns into one thing else.”
When will the subsequent Bond film be on screens?
Whereas it has Villeneuve within the director’s chair and Steven Knight writing the script, we’re a methods away from an announcement on the date. We don’t even but know who will truly be enjoying Bond.
‘The Thursday Homicide Membership’, in the meantime, lands on Netflix on August twenty eighth.
(L to R) Sir Ben Kingsley as Ibrahim Arif, Pierce Brosnan as Ron Ritchie, writer Richard Osman, Helen Mirren as Elizabeth Finest, Celia Imrie as Joyce Meadowcroft and director Chris Columbus on the set of ‘The Thursday Homicide Membership’. Photograph: Courtesy of Netflix © 2024. © 2025 Netflix, Inc.