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There seems to be a bit of a tendency in recent years to write off Pierce Brosnan as a lesser James Bond. To this we must say, nonsense. Brosnan's run as 007 totally rejuvenated the franchise in the late 90s, and his take on the character is up there with the best of them.

The main problem is, Brosnan wasn't generally given the best material to work with. Throughout his tenure in the role, the actor was pushing for a move away from high camp and back to the core of Ian Fleming's character; but, as his swansong Die Another Day demonstrates, the powers that be weren't listening.

Small wonder, then, that Brosnan was said to have liked Quentin Tarantino's idea of filming Fleming's original novel Casino Royale. The Pulp Fiction director wanted to shoot the book as written in 1953, as a period piece, with Brosnan as Bond and Uma Thurman as Vesper Lynd and pitched his idea around the time Brosnan's second film Tomorrow Never Dies hit the screens.

When Eon Productions turned Tarantino down, the director tried to buy the rights to the novel, which wasn't owned by Eon at the time. Unfortunately for him and for Brosnan, Eon got there first, eventually firing Brosnan, and proceeded to make Casino Royale the next Bond movie with new actor Daniel Craig and Goldeneye director Martin Campbell.

Considering how good Craig's 007 debut turned out, we can't feel too remorseful about the whole thing. Even so, it does feel like Tarantino and Brosnan both got a pretty raw deal, and it's hard not to imagine what might have been.