Casino Royale is the 21st film in the James Bond series and the first to star Daniel Craig as MI6 agent James Bond. Based on the 1953 novel Casino Royale by Ian Fleming, it was adapted by Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, and Academy Award-winning screenwriter Paul Haggis and was directed by Martin Campbell, director of the 1995 Bond film GoldenEye. The film, and Daniel Craig's performance in particular, quickly earned critical acclaim. It is the highest grossing James Bond film to date.[2] It is also the 32nd highest-grossing film of all-time and the 6th highest grossing film of all-time in the United Kingdom.[3]
The film is set at the beginning of James Bond's career as a 00-agent, having earned his license to kill. After foiling a terrorist attack on Miami International Airport, he goes to the Casino Royale at Montenegro to foil Le Chiffre (Mads Mikkelsen). He also falls for Vesper Lynd (Eva Green), a situation that has dangerous consequences. This is the third screen adaptation of Ian Fleming's first Bond novel, which was previously produced as a 1954 television episode and a 1967 film spoof. However, the 2006 release is the only official EON Productions adaptation of Fleming's novel. The film is a reboot of the Bond franchise, establishing a new timeline and narrative framework not meant to precede Dr. No or any previous films.[4]
It is produced by EON Productions for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Columbia Pictures, marking the first official Bond film to be co-produced by the latter studio, which had produced and originally distributed the 1967 non-canonical film version of the same name; this is the result of the 2005 Sony/Comcast consortium's acquisition of MGM, parent company of Bond film series rights co-owner United Artists. Casino Royale is the first Bond film to take its title from an Ian Fleming novel or short story since 1987's The Living Daylights. It is also the first Bond film since The Living Daylights not to be adapted as a novelisation. Instead a film tie-in edition of Fleming's original novel was published in the UK on October 31, 2006
The gunbarrel sequence modified as part of the opening sequenceIn the opening, James Bond is sent on a mission in Prague to kill an MI6 section chief, Dryden, who has sold British secrets. Bond must make two kills to qualify for Double-0 status, granting him a licence to kill: first, Dryden's associate, Fisher, and then the section chief himself. Bond then travels to Madagascar in pursuit of an international bomb-maker. After a parkour chase to the Nambutu embassy, Bond chooses to kill the bomb-maker and blow up part of the embassy to escape. Bond's actions are recorded on closed-circuit television and exposed in the world press, enraging M, his boss at MI6. Bond then visits the Bahamas, where his target is a man named Alexander Dimitrios, who has been working for Le Chiffre, an unscrupulous banker who manages money for terrorist organizations and uses it to short sell certain companies' stocks. While there, Bond wins Dimitrios's 1964 Aston Martin DB5 in a poker game. Solange, Dimitrios's wife, tells Bond that he is flying to Miami immediately, and Bond follows. In Miami, Bond kills Dimitrios and foils Le Chiffre's plans to blow up a prototype airliner at the airport, which causes huge losses for Le Chiffre.
To recoup the money, Le Chiffre sets up a high-stakes Texas hold 'em tournament at Casino Royale in Montenegro. MI6 enters Bond in the tournament to bankrupt Le Chiffre, hoping that he will be forced to aid the British government in exchange for protection from his creditors. Bond meets up with Mathis, his contact in Montenegro, and Vesper Lynd, a Treasury agent, who is assigned to look after Bond's handling of the $10 million buy-in. When Bond misreads Le Chiffre as bluffing and loses his initial stake, Vesper refuses to give him the funds to rebuy, and the CIA's Felix Leiter stakes Bond in exchange for Le Chiffre. Bond wins the tournament, despite attempts to kill him, but before the CIA can take Le Chiffre into custody, he kidnaps Vesper and lures Bond into a near-fatal car chase, which results in his capture as well. Le Chiffre tortures Bond by repeatedly striking his testicles with a knotted rope to make him reveal the account password to the game's winnings. When it becomes clear that Bond will not give in, Le Chiffre advances to castrate him, but before he can, Mr. White arrives and kills Le Chiffre and his associates, leaving Bond and Vesper alive.
Bond and Le Chiffre face off at Casino RoyaleBond awakens in a hospital on Lake Como and has Mathis, whom Le Chiffre suggested was a double agent, arrested. Bond admits his love for Vesper and vows to quit the service before it strips him of his humanity. When she agrees, Bond e-mails his resignation to M, and the two go on a romantic holiday in Venice. Bond soon learns that the funds were never deposited in the Treasury's account and finds Vesper taking the money to a mysterious organization only vaguely alluded to throughout the film. Bond pursues them into a building under renovation and deliberately shoots the flotation devices supporting the structure to collapse the foundation into the Grand Canal. Vesper apologizes to Bond and commits suicide by locking herself in an elevator that sinks underwater. Bond tries to rescue her and though he manages to break into the elevator and bring Vesper to the surface; he is too late.
Mr. White stands on an opposite balcony to survey the scene and then walks away with the money. Bond, feeling betrayed ("The ***** is dead," he says, a direct quote from the original novel), learns that MI6 believed Vesper negotiated the handover of money in order to save Bond's life from Le Chiffre and the organization. Bond, who has Vesper's mobile phone, discovers that she left Mr. White's name and number for him to find. Mr. White, arriving at a palatial estate, receives a phone call. A voice on the line says, "Mr. White? We need to talk." As White asks "Who is this?", he is shot in the leg. As he crawls towards the villa, Bond appears, revealing himself as the shooter, and responds to Mr. White's question with the iconic catch phrase "The name's Bond, James Bond."
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