Dante’s Peak (1997)
Roger Donaldson's 1997 volcano disaster. Pierce Brosnan as volcanologist.
Actor: Pierce Brosnan
Pierce Brosnan was offered James Bond in 1986 and was prevented from taking it by his Remington Steele contract, which is one of the more consequential scheduling problems in film history. He got it eight years later.
GoldenEye is the best of his four, and Feirstein’s script gives him the first Bond film to interrogate the character directly.
The Thomas Crown Affair and The Matador show what he can do outside it, the latter playing a shabby, failing hitman entirely against the persona.
Mamma Mia revealed he cannot sing, which he has been genuinely good-humoured about.
