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Brosnan, who brought the series back to life--and is paid a reported $15 million a picture to keep the franchise alive--was once the Bond that got away. In 1986 he had to turn down an offer to play the role because he couldn't get out of his Remington Steele TV contract. But he was ready to take the part when asked again in 1994. After Roger Moore's ironic, almost geriatric Bond, and then Timothy Dalton's leaden, I'm-really-a-serious-actor Bond, the debonair Irishman has reinvigorated the old spy and started to make...
Brosnan's eight-year delay helped him build a better Bond. Age weathered some of his pretty-boy sheen; a few more lines on his face, a touch more flesh at his jawline, and he began to look like a man who had survived a few too many fights and a few too many cocktails. By now, his fourth time in the role, "the part has become second nature in some respects," he says. "I've grown into it--or at least I'd like to think I have...
...Another Day gives Brosnan a chance to stretch a bit. Betrayed during an investigation into diamond smuggling, Bond is jailed and tortured by the North Koreans in what might be the first Bond scene to qualify as harrowing: he is battered, bruised, bearded and, yes, even long-haired. We've never seen Bond like this. Naturally, he eventually wins freedom and makes his way back to London, only to learn that he's been stripped of his 00 status. His quest for redemption and his effort to unmask the traitor take him into the arms of three women...
...thought of Bond on a mission of self-discovery makes you queasy, relax. As guardians of the 007 legacy, Broccoli and Wilson won't mess with the formula. They constantly field suggestions to tweak the franchise, but most times "Barbara and I have to say no--to casting someone inappropriate, to making it into a buddy picture," says Wilson. "The principle is what Cubby said, 'Don't screw...
...Bond movie has conventions: girls, gadgets, action," says Tamahori, a New Zealander best known for the obscure 1994 Maori drama Once Were Warriors. "It's not that you must stick with them, but if you don't, you may be doing the film--and the genre--a disservice." So he gives us the staples: action, exotic settings, a good-vs.-evil showdown and Bond Girls (Berry plus pale, slinky British newcomer Rosamund Pike). Enlivening these elements are blasts from the past in honor of the franchise's 40th anniversary--nods to Bond history, from Berry's sexy play on Andress...