Pierce Brosnan to appear at MIPCOM 2006 in Cannes

Former James Bond actor Pierce Brosnan will be appearing at MIPCOM 2006 in Cannes this week to promote the sequel to 1999's gentleman thief flick The Thomas Crown Affair.

Asked whether he would rather play a gentleman thief or a gentleman spy, Bronson said he had no real preference. “I decided to do the Crown film so I could play a different note in a similar genre. The sequel’s scripts will be ready next month, and we’ll start shooting in the new year.”

As far as Brosnan is concerned, he is happy to put James Bond behind him. Thomas Crown is a film close to his heart as it was one of the first film produced by his own compay, Irish Dream Time. “We took the original off the shelf a while ago – we took the old film’s story as a starting point for ours – and MGM went with it.”

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