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The actor announced plans last year to reprise his role as a high-class art thief in a sequel to the 1999 thriller, which was a remake of the 1968 Steve McQueen original.
Brosnan confirmed that he had begun work on the picture in February, insisting movie bosses had "a script and a structure that is good".
However, the production has now suffered a major setback after Total Recall filmmaker Verhoeven walked out on the film - blaming his exit on a "regime change" as well as a decision to go with a different script.
He told Moviehole: "I am not [involved] anymore. Things happened there, the regime changed. The initial ideas that they had about Thomas Crown 2 were interesting I thought.
"There was a script written by two young writers that used the fact that now we're living 15, 20 years later. Ultimately, [the studio] decided not to [use] that script anymore. Then there was a regime change. And basically I felt that I could not [continue]."
