It’s Official: Brosnan Says Bye To Bond

It's been an saga more engrossing than the Tracey-Steve-Karen love triangle on Coronation Street, but Pierce Brosnan has finally confirmed, to Empire, what has been widely suspected for some time: that his stint as James Bond is finally, irrevocably, incontrovertibly, over. "Bond is gone," the 51 year old actor tells us in the new issue of Empire. "Over. Done. Dusted. My contract was for four movies, they [EON Productions] invited me back for a fifth and I said yes, then somewhere in the middle of negotiations they changed their minds." Still, Brosnan doesn't seem to have any regrets (after all, his latest movie, After The Sunset, is a fun heist flick with good commercial chances). "Am I staggered by this?" he ponders. "No, I'm not. It's a hard business. I wish them well and I wish the next guy well." For more from Brosnan, pick up the new issue of Empire, on sale now.