Brosnan is Back?

IMDB reports that Pierce Brosnan is probably going to return as James Bond after all. You can check out details (or rather rumored details) here. Apparently, Sony, the Broccolis, and Brosnan are going through the same dance that the Broccolis and Roger Moore went through before "For Your Eyes Only". Indeed, this moment in Bond history is remarably similar to that last one. 1979s "Moonraker" was a special effects action spectacular just like "Die Another Day". Like "Die Another Day", "Moonraker" received tepid notices but earned a spectacular amount of money. Roger Moore was 51 when "Moonraker" came out. Pierce Brosnan was 50 when "Die Another Day" premiered. In both cases the producers said after their films' premieres that the Bond series had gone too far with their big budget action sequences and that the next film would show us a less gadget driven, more realistic 007.

Brosnan probably hopes there will be one last similarity. The Broccolis paid Roger Moore astrobucks to return as James Bond, and he made them sweat over the subsequent contracts for "Octopussy" and "A View To A Kill". He made enough to go into semi-retirement.

Here's hoping Brosnan does as well. I'd like to see him back, and for all he's done to revitalize the series I'd like to see him bleed Sony for every nickel they've got.