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From CBn's Home Page... Pierce Brosnan's 'After The Sunset' Arrives On DVD After the cinemas comes DVD... from 29 March 2005

This is all leaving me very confused, when you combine it with this Laws of Attraction is there really room for this 21st Bond movie to be shooting in Pinewood from January? Maybe...but a damn tight schedule for Brosnan if it is...

Brosnan catches crime AFTER THE SUNSET
James Bond star has a new thriller

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Dateline: Wednesday, March 26, 2003

By: PATRICK SAURIOL
By: News Editor
Source: The Hollywood Reporter

The man who plays the current incarnation of super-spy James Bond, Pierce Brosnan, has a new mission outlined in New Line Cinema's AFTER THE SUNSET. In the film Brosnan plays a retired thief who, after successfully completing his last heist, sails off into the sunset and towards what he thinks is a life of luxury. Instead, the thief's old nemesis, a FBI agent, tracks him down to on the island he's at and begins covertly shadowing his movements. It sounds a bit like the unofficial sequel to Brosnan's previous films, THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR, doesn't it?

Laws of Attraction is set to begin in early June. It's a romantic comedy so a 2-3 month shoot is about it. So he does have time to do this film in the Fall before Bond. I think he did Thomas Crown and Grey Owl back to back before he bagan TWINE. That said it doesn't say when this film is to begin shooting; actors are attached to projects all the time that don't get made for awhile if ever and Brosnan has a couple others from previous years still floating around "in development".

By getting Studio space at Pinewood and starting pre-production . Just gives them time to have every thing in place but the actual principle photography begins in January . Since Bond's have become increasingly more and more complex . The additional time is need for costume fittings , development of special effects ( i.e. what the AstonMartin will do in the film ) . Coordination of the 2nd unit and the development of stunts . So by "pencilling in" for studio space . Gives EON over 9 months to film .

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Originally posted by mattbowyer This is all leaving me very confused, when you combine it with this Laws of Attraction is there really room for this 21st Bond movie to be shooting in Pinewood from January? Maybe...but a damn tight schedule for Brosnan if it is... Brosnan catches crime AFTER THE SUNSET   James Bond star has a new thriller   -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dateline: Wednesday, March 26, 2003   By: PATRICK SAURIOL   By: News Editor   Source: The Hollywood Reporter   The man who plays the current incarnation of super-spy James Bond, Pierce Brosnan, has a new mission outlined in New Line Cinema's AFTER THE SUNSET. In the film Brosnan plays a retired thief who, after successfully completing his last heist, sails off into the sunset and towards what he thinks is a life of luxury. Instead, the thief's old nemesis, a FBI agent, tracks him down to on the island he's at and begins covertly shadowing his movements. It sounds a bit like the unofficial sequel to Brosnan's previous films, THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR, doesn't it?

Sounds more like Sean Connery's ENTRAPMENT to me.

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Originally posted by DLibrasnow Sounds more like Sean Connery's ENTRAPMENT to me.

Or maybe a Remington Steele reunion film. This guy sure plays a lot of thieves.

Is there a date floating around for "After the Sunset" to start filming?

And one other thing...Hounded Steele, my favorite RS episode, has a plot very similar to this, except it is a Interpol officer chasing a jewel thief called Le Reynard. Mr. Steele was thought to be Le Reynard, but it turns out to be some other guy that Steele's secretary winds up dating.

Strange...very strange....this man only makes films in big gulps. He doesn't know how to pace himself.

-- Xenobia

I'll believe a Jan. 2004 shooting date for Bond 21 when I see it. What is curious is that Brosnan said in 1999 that he wanted a three year break between Bond movies and word is that he even had that as a term in his contract.
My money is on EON making a non-Bond movie while they wait for Pierce to have his little sabbatical. They have done it before - "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" and "Battle of Britain" spring to mind.
Alternatively, it could be one of the much rumored spin-off movies.
On another note - one should remember they often shoot certain sequences for the Bond movies long before principal photography is wrapped.
I have no idea when "After the Sunset" is set to start rolling Xen, but if you figure Laws of Attraction is wrapped by early September, then there is the requisite two months of junkets/publicity around the world, that takes us to November. Then you have the two to three months shooting "Sunset" which takes us into February. Then the requisite two months of junkets/publicity for that and you have Brosnan's calendar booked until early May 2004.

I think I will play it safe and stand with you Dlibra. I'll believe the January 2004 start date when I see the press conference.

-- Xenobia

Brosnan only said he wanted the three years after he did TWINE. He has not reiterated he wanted that between every Bond film after that as well. All he's said is that if it was up to MGM they'd make a Bond every 18 months, not just 2 years.

There won't be publicity junkets for a couple of months right after he shoots Laws Of Attraction because the film will then be in post production and might not even premiere til the end of the year or the year after. TCA was filmed in the summer of '98 it came out in the late summer of '99. So he still has time to film After The Sunset in the fall of 2003 if that's when it's scheduled. That said he has several other films he's still attached to (not including the films on the IDT slate) and has been for a couple of years that haven't even happened yet. It's not unusal, films often get stuck in development hell for want of financing, the right script, the right director, the right co-star, the right location, the right start date etc. The film Sounds of Thunder didn't happen when script problems and strike fears converged and shut it down only for it to be rescheduled when DAD would be shooting. He only did Evelyn right before DAD because the film scheduled with Roger Donaldson, the thriller The Day After Tomorrow fell though (again) at the last moment.

There was only one rumored spin off film, that for Jinx and Halle is just as booked with projects and potential projects until the end of the year and next as Brosnan is. And I don't think it's going to happen any more than Yeoh's, especially since Yeoh had better reviews and public reaction for TND than Berry did for DAD. It also has to happen before Bond 21 because by then the Bond hype machine will be rolling for the next best Bond girl ever who is now *really* Bond's equal. .

As for doing other films, we probably would have heard about them by now especially since they haven't done a non Bond film in over 30 years. And they may shoot sequences pre the official start of production but that's months before at the most, or weeks like Hawaii for DAD not a year and half before.

I hope you are right MBE

I'm going to play it safe though and wait for the press conference. Then, I'll believe it's going to happen..
Or even simpler is putting in a phone call to the MGM publicity folks in Santa Barbara to see what their take is on it.

Let us know of any results from said phone call

I'm sure Eon Productions have their number in the book - a call through to them would probably also pay dividends.

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Originally posted by Simon I'm sure Eon Productions have their number in the book - a call through to them would probably also pay dividends.

Probably, except I don't have the number for EON, but I do have the Santa Barbara number for MGM.