Pierce Brosnan Reunites With GOLDENEYE Director For Hemingway Adaptation

Former James Bond Pierce Brosnan is reteaming with his Goldeneye director Martin Campbell for a film adaptation of an Ernest Hemingway novel. THR reports that the two will reunite for Across The River and Into The Trees, the last novel Hemingway published in his lifetime. I've sadly never read a Hemingway novel (I know, I know), but here's how THR describes the plot:

BAFTA winner Peter Flannery and Oscar-nominated Michael Radford (Il Postino) wrote the script, which tells the story of an American officer serving in Italy right after World War II, facing news of his terminal illness with stoic disregard. Determined to spend his weekend in quiet solitude, he commandeers a military driver to facilitate a simple duck hunting trip and a visit to his old haunts in Venice. As his plans begin to unravel, a chance encounter with a young countess begins to kindle in him the hope of renewal.

Sounds like a nice juicy role for Brosnan to sink his teeth into. I've always found him to be an enjoyable presence on screen, and I feel like he doesn't always get the opportunities he should to be able to prove he has range beyond the suave Bond-esque charms of those films or The Thomas Crown Affair. Campbell has had more hits than misses in his career, resurrecting the Bond franchise twice and directing the Zorro films, but also directing Green Lantern. Here's hoping the two — who are currently working together on an action thriller with Jackie Chan called The Foreigner which made headlines yesterday for scaring Londoners when a bus exploded for the shoot — can work wonders for each other's careers again.