You want the audience to be short of breath. Daniel Craig said of the stunts, “It’s the wow factor. With Casino Royale, the producers didn’t want to rely on CGI effects that had been seen in the more recent James Bond films, most notably Die Another Day, and were keen to accomplish the stunts in Casino Royale “the old fashioned way”. The film is part of a story arc that continues in Quantum of Solace (2008), with explicit references to the characters and events being made in films set after the story, within Skyfall (2012) and Spectre (2015). It follows Bond as he becomes involved in an assignment to bankrupt terrorist financier Le Chiffre in a high-stakes poker game, after foiling an attack he arranged on a new aircraft being demonstrated at Miami International Airport during the course of his assignment, Bond falls in love with Vesper Lynd, a treasury employee assigned to provide the money he needs for the game. The storyline is set at the beginning of James Bond’s career as 007, just as he is earning his licence to kill. These guys walk into a room and very subtly they check the perimeters for an exit. You can see it in their eyes, you know immediately: oh, hello, he’s a killer. Daniel Craig read all of Ian Fleming’s novels to prepare for the part and cited Mossad and British Secret Service agents who served as advisors on the set of Munich as inspiring because “Bond has just come out of the service and he’s a killer. It allowed them to show a less experienced and vulnerable James Bond than had been seen in previous films.Ī year, Daniel Craig had rejected the idea of starring as 007, as he felt the series had descended into a formula only when he read the script for Casino Royale did he become interested. Casino Royale was the first film to cast Daniel Craig as MI6 agent James Bond and provided a reboot to the James Bond series with the producers establishing a new timeline and narrative framework not meant to precede or succeed any of the previous films.

It is the third screen adaptation of Ian Fleming’s 1953 novel of the same name, after the 1954 CBS television adventure series Climax! and the film 1967 starring David Niven. Casino Royale stars Daniel Craig, Eva Green, Mads Mikkelsen, Giancarlo Giannini, Jeffrey Wright, Judi Dench, Caterina Murino, Ivana Miličević and Simon Abkarian. The screenplay was co-written by Neal Purvis, Robert Wade and Paul Haggis.

It was directed by Martin Campbell and co-produced by Michael G. Casino Royale released in 2006, is the 21st film in the James Bond series.

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