After attempting to recapture his Bond days with action thriller The November Man, Pierce Brosnan is taking aim at a character on an even dodgier moral keel. He’s set to play a drug creator in **Urge.
Aaron Kaufman, who has worked as a producer with Robert Rodriguez on the likes of Sin City: A Dame To Kill For, is looking to make the movie as his directing debut. He wrote the script with Jason Zumwalt and Jerry Stahl and wants the cameras rolling next month kicking off in New York.
The plot follows a group of friends on holiday at a swanky island destination, who throw caution to the wind and take up the offer of a new designer drug that causes them lose the ability to control their urges. So, like many already existing drugs and booze, then? Hopefully this will offer a new twist to the tale, and that Brosnan will get to be charming and calculating as the man behind the narcotic.
Brosnan has a few films on the way, clanking through post-production including rom-com How To Make Love Like An Englishman, thriller The Coup, adventure fantasy The Moon And The Sun and action pic Survivor. The November Man, meanwhile, arrives here on November 7.