Even before he signed up for the role that would define his career, it was destiny that Pierce Brosnan would one day play James Bond. Almost a decade earlier, long-term 007 rights holder Cubby Broccoli had identified the Irish actor as his first choice to replace Roger Moore, and it was only Brosnan’s prior commitments to US TV show Remington Steele that kept him out of the legendary spy' tuxedo. MI6 eventually got their man and the way he (initially, at least) captured a mix of Sean Connery’s edge and Roger Moore’s lightheartedness put him up there with the best...