Casino Royale

Action Adventure Thriller

PG-13

Czech Republic, Germany, United Kingdom, United States

English

November 17, 2006

2hr 24min

Status: released

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Casino Royale Movie Details:

Based on	Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
Countries	United Kingdom United States Czech Republic Germany
Language	English
Genre	Action, Adventure, Thriller
Release dates	November 14, 2006 (London) November 16, 2006 (United Kingdom) November 17, 2006 (United States)
Running time	2hr 24min
Age rating	PG-13
Starring	Daniel Craig Eva Green Mads Mikkelsen Jeffrey Wright Judi Dench
Directed by	Martin Campbell
Screenplay by	Neal Purvis Robert Wade Paul Haggis
Produced by	Michael G. Wilson Barbara Broccoli
Cinematography by	Phil Méheux
Edited by	Stuart Baird
Music by	David Arnold
Production Companies	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Columbia Pictures Eon Productions
Distributor	Sony Pictures Releasing

Casino Royale Movie Cast & Characters:

Daniel Craig as James Bond, a British MI6 officer newly assigned 00 status, giving him a licence to kill.
Eva Green as Vesper Lynd, a British Treasury agent who falls in love with James Bond.
Mads Mikkelsen as Le Chiffre, a banker who services many of the world’s criminals and terrorists and associate partner of SPECTRE.
Giancarlo Giannini as René Mathis, Bond’s contact in Montenegro.
Jesper Christensen as Mr. White, a liaison for an unnamed criminal organization.
Judi Dench as M, the head of MI6.
Tobias Menzies as Villiers, M’s young secretary at MI6 headquarters.
Isaach de Bankolé as Steven Obanno, a leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army, he is introduced to Le Chiffre by Mr. White to account his finances.
Simon Abkarian as Alex Dimitrios, a contractor in the international criminal underworld and associate of Le Chiffre, he is based in the Bahamas.
Ivana Miličević as Valenka, Le Chiffre’s girlfriend and henchwoman, she accompanies him to the poker game.
Caterina Murino as Solange Dimitrios, Dimitrios’s wife; Bond seduces her, causing her unintentionally to reveal one of his plans. After Bond kills Dimitrios, she is found tortured and killed.
Claudio Santamaria as Carlos, a terrorist employed by Le Chiffre to blow up an aircraft.
Sébastien Foucan as Mollaka, a bomb-maker pursued by Bond through a construction site in Madagascar.
Jeffrey Wright as Felix Leiter, a CIA operative, he is participating in the poker tournament while assisting Bond.

Storyline:

After earning a license to kill, secret agent James Bond sets out on his first mission as 007. Bond must defeat a private banker funding terrorists in a high-stakes game of poker at Casino Royale, in Montenegro.

About Casino Royale Movie:

Casino Royale is an action-adventure spy thriller film directed by Martin Campbell from a screenplay by Neil Purvis, Robert Wade, and Paul Haggis. It is the twenty-first in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions, and the third screen adaptation of Ian Fleming’s 1953 novel of the same name.

The film stars Daniel Craig in his first appearance as Bond, alongside Eva Green, Mads Mikkelsen, Judi Dench, Giancarlo Giannin, Jeffrey Wright, Tobias Menzies, Isaach de Bankolé, and Simon Abkarian.

The announcement of Daniel Craig as the new James Bond was made on October 14, 2005, aboard H.M.S. President, in London. On that day, former James Bond Sir Roger Moore was celebrating his seventy-eighth birthday.

Principal photography for Casino Royale commenced on January 3, 2006, and concluded on July 20, 2006. The film was primarily shot at Barrandov Studios in Prague, with additional locations shooting in the Bahamas, Italy, and the United Kingdom. The shoot concluded at Pinewood Studios.

Daniel Craig initially rejected the part of James Bond, feeling that the series had settled into a standard formula. However, he changed his mind after reading the finished script.

According to Daniel Craig, the only CGI in this movie was to erase safety wires in a lot of the stunt sequences, and to integrate the models for the sinking palazzo into the real Venetian location.

Most of the cars seen in the movie are made by Ford Motor Company. In the scene where Bond acts as a valet, the cars in the parking lot are Land Rovers, Volvos, Jaguars, and other Ford Motor Company vehicles.

It is the first James Bond movie since Licence to Kill (1989) to be based on a story or have story elements written by Ian Fleming.

Casino Royale premiered at the Odeon Leicester Square on November 14, 2006, and was theatrically released first in the United Kingdom on November 16, and in the United States a day later. The film received critical acclaim, with praise for Craig’s reinvention of the character and its departure from the tropes of previous Bond films.

Daniel Craig became the first actor to be nominated for a BAFTA (British Academy) Award for playing James Bond.

The film grossed over $616 million worldwide, becoming the fourth highest-grossing film of 2006 and the highest-grossing James Bond film until the release of Skyfall (2012). A sequel, Quantum of Solace, was released in 2008.

This is the first official James Bond movie to be co-produced by Columbia Pictures, owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment. This is a result of Sony’s acquisition of MGM, along with Bond rights co-owner United Artists. Columbia Pictures had originally co-produced and distributed Casino Royale (1967).