Casino Royale 007
 

Well I've never heard of Daniel Craig, and personaly I can't picture him as Bond even after watching the teaser. I'm sure that all of people who have read the Bond novels will disagree with me here but going from the films, I picture Bond as a hansome, charming, gentelman spy. I think that these are the attributes that attract women to him. Craig looks too rugded and masculin for the role of Bond. I think he will bring that cold blooded killer idea that I guess is evident in the Bond novels. But since I have grown-up with the movies, that is were my image of Bond comes from.
But this movie might be good for action value if nothing else.



English Casino Royale Teaser Up!
Source: Sony Pictures May 2, 2006

You can now watch the English version of the teaser trailer for Sony's Casino Royale at Moviefone. Directed by Martin Campbell, the 21st James Bond installment opens on November 17.

The studio has also updated the film's official website at CasinoRoyalemovie.com, which features a countdown until a new version of the site launches. You can also watch the teaser trailer there or download the clip for your PSP.

Daniel Craig takes over the role of the legendary British secret agent, James Bond, in the highly anticipated 007 adventure thriller. The film also stars Judi Dench, Eva Green, Mads Mikkelsen, Jeffrey Wright, Giancarlo Giannini, Caterina Murino, Simon Abkarian, Tobias Menzies, Ivana Milicevic, Clemens Schik, Ludger Pistor, Claudio Santamaria and Isaach de Bankole.
CasinoRoyalemovie.com http://www.casinoroyalemovie.com/

ian flamings written bond was never supposed to be a good looking man ..
he's 6'1" and dangerous looking ...

it was only the films that turned him into a wise cracking pretty boy. (i still like them - but they are very different from the books)

Agreed, Fleming's books were a lot more simplistic and brutal. Bond never had gadgets and flying cars, he was just a thug assassin... glad to see they're going a "rougher" route with the films.

The original Casino Royale was a spoof on 007 with Peter Sellers.

the origional casino royal was a made for TV movie starring an american .. from the late 50's i think

"Casino Royale" aired on Oct 21 1954 on the CBS series "Climax Mystery Theater" It starred American actor Barry Nelson as "Bond" and the great Peter Lorre as the villian "Le Chiffre"

its actually included on the Casino Royal DVD (the one with sellers, niven, allen, etc)

Roger Michell in Talks for Bond 22
Source: The Hollywood Reporter July 17, 2006

The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that director Roger Michell is in negotiations with EON Productions to direct the 22nd movie starring Agent 007, James Bond.

Michell, best known for directing the Julia Roberts romantic comedy Notting Hill, has worked twice previously with Daniel Craig on the dramas The Mother and Enduring Love.

Columbia Pictures has not commented on the matter.

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They must be preety confiendet about #21.

Original...

Casino Royale: Bond'21!!

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won't be seeing it. I saw my dumb action movie of the year already with Mission Impossible 3, it's probably one of the best action movies I've ever seen though so I'm glad I saw it though.

Anyway, I like the handsome, charming, wise cracking,gadget using bond.

i grew up through several bonds ... whats one more :)

Actually the original was Fleming's first Bond novel, which makes me ask why are they doing this novel now? Because from what I know about the original novel Bond has just been promoted to the double "o" status. But in the trailer M is talking to Bond about a promotion, maybe to captain or admerial because he is curently a commander.

Action wise it should be good, and I think that the story will be decent, I mean I don't expect much from a Bond story because they are all about the same.

Daniel Craig on Casino Royale
Source: Reuters August 31, 2006

Reuters has published a new interview with Casino Royale star Daniel Craig and here are a few clips:

"We have an opening sequence that is filmed in black and white, which is not to say this is old. It is just to say, 'go with us on this one. This is from the beginning,"' Craig said.

"It's huge," said Craig about taking the role. "Of course there's concern, I'm only human. I want to get it right."

Craig said he talked to Pierce Brosnan, who played the super spy in the four most recent Bond Flicks, "quite a few times."

"Pierce said 'go for it,"' Craig said. "So I did."

Sean Connery was the perfect Bond...tall, rugged, deadly and purposeful.

Thunderball :- "My dear girl, don't flatter yourself. What I did this evening was for King and country. You don't think it gave me any pleasure, do you?"

Somehow all the rest who played 007 never measured up.

I agree that Connery set the standard, but personaly I enjoyed the way Pierce played Bond. Plus I think he had the right look for the verson of Bond he was doing. But Connery will always be the best.

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I can't picture that. I don't think I'd go for Kill Bill meets Bond.
But I'm not a big Tarantino fan either.

How do you figure that?
It's based on a book Ian Fleming wrote WAAAAY back when, it's one of the first, if not THE first JB full-length story...as in set before all the "old" JB films. I doubt the film will owe anything more to tarantino than the fact it'll have guns in it?

I'm ok with the "different" bond.
It's not him changing, it's (and other early books) more like how he used to be. Yes, he was an assassin, as M puts it in the trailer "a blunt instrument". It's set in the modern day which may be a little unusual, but whatever...I didn't see as many complaints about Batman Begins, more or less the same deal...
I personally hope it's a new franchise for Bond, for at least a few films, there's definately enough material to work with.

As for the comedy version, I heard it was great...I may hire it.

The idea of prequels is hardly unheard of...besides, and even if someone DID get the idea off tarantino, big deal...
Obviously someone got off their ass and did it, whereas he didn't.
Either that or he spoiled his own chances at the same deal by being the arrogant, outspoken guy he often is...

Ideas are only ideas until someone makes them more.

Copied from Wikipedia:

"Casino Royale is the first James Bond novel by author Ian Fleming. It would eventually pave the way for 11 other novels by Fleming himself in addition to 2 short story anthologies, followed by many 'continuation' Bond novels by other authors."

For starters this movie can't be a prequal because the current "M" is in it, the original "M" was a male. Second it take place in modern times. Third this is going down as BOND 21, so its part of the normal series.

Also I don't know were this comment about the other Bond stories were made-up for the movies, all of the Bond films up until "The Spy Who Loved Me" were all based on Ian's novels, the only thing that was used in this movie was the title. Then everything after "The Living Daylights" starting with "Licence to Kill" were stories for the movies with no novel influence to the story.

This is alittle bit off topic but has anyone ever noticed that whenever Bond is on TV they never show the movies in order like they do for other series. I guess some people don't know that these movies do carry elements over from the previous film. For example, "From Russia With Love", at the beginning of the movie Bond is with the Brunet that he hooked-up with in the Casino in "Dr. No" and in a meeting the SPECTER agaents make references to the death of Dr. No. In "You Only Live Twice" Bond finaly goes head to head with Blofield who is the leader of SPECTER. After not catching him Bond is still chaseing Blofield in "On Her Majesty's Secrect Service", at the end Blowfield kills Bond's wife. This storyline is concluded in "Diamonds are Forever" with Bond finaly defeating Blofield.

I thought you said that all 20 Bond movies were stories not based on Ian's novels. That the movies had no influence from the novels for the stories.

Bond 22 Targeting Nov. 7, 2008
Source: The Hollywood Reporter September 1, 2006

Columbia Pictures has moved James Bond 22 -- the yet-to-be-named film that will be produced after November's Casino Royale -- to Nov. 7, 2008, rather than the original date of May 2, 2008, where it was in competition with Jon Favreau's Iron Man adaptation.

Sony Pictures Entertainment vice chairman Jeff Blake told The Hollywood Reporter that the studio, along with partners MGM and British production company EON Prods., are in talks to bring on a new director after Roger Michell (Notting Hill) bowed out of the project.

The new date also gives the filmmakers the standard two years to complete the next film -- the usual time between Bond movies.

"Eighteen months was a very short window," Blake said. "We're going to stay the course."

Daniel Craig will star as 007 in the 22nd Bond film as well.

i personally liked the roger moore bond... as for the up-coming movie i liked the actor they casted and look forward to see a new triwst on the series

A little bit about the plot.


The New Casino Royale Trailer Hits!
Source: Sony Pictures September 7, 2006

Moviefone has your first look at the new trailer for Sony Pictures' Casino Royale, the 21st James Bond film directed by Martin Campbell and starring Daniel Craig as 007. The movie, opening November 17, is based on the first Bond book written by Ian Fleming.

James Bond's first "007" mission leads him to Le Chiffre (Mads Mikkelsen), banker to the world's terrorists. In order to stop him, and bring down the terrorist network, Bond must beat Le Chiffre in a high-stakes poker game at Casino Royale. Bond is initially annoyed when a beautiful British Treasury official, Vesper Lynd (Eva Green), is assigned to deliver his stake for the game and watch over the government's money. But, as Bond and Vesper survive a series of lethal attacks by Le Chiffre and his henchmen, a mutual attraction develops leading them both into further danger and events that will shape Bond's life forever.

Yeah, he's SUPPOSED to...

Love Daniel Craig in Layer Cake and Enduring Love, but I wasn't very excited about this one until viewing the new trailer

http://movies.aol.com/casino-royale-...video-features

So now that this movie turning out to look like prequal how does everyone feel about them making Bond 21 set in modern day but taking place before the days of Connery and having the current M and Q?

Anybody going to see this tomorrow?

I'll be seeing it, probably in a week or so when it comes out here...looks great...kind of like the movie equivalent for if they did an "ultimate JB" comic, origin story set in the modern day.
Looks like some awesome stunt coreography too...aren't many guys that don't end up seeing the Bond films, IMO, eventually...I'll be catching this on bigscreen, for sure.

re Casino Royale
 

Should be seeing it this weekend.


1. A question was posed about Bonds' promotion : In this film this is where he gets his "00" status.

2. Bond does not beat Le Chiffre at the Poker table.

3. The producer's have said that Casino Royale is merely the first part of a "new" story and will be properly concluded with the next film.

4. By all accounts (recent reviews) Daniel Craig is as good as the Connery version, some say that this is one of the best Bond films yet.

just heard a ripping review on this one ..
looks like this is the Bond we've been waiting for for 40 years..

I was really dejected about this... Then I saw the trailer. I have to admit, i will definately see it. Just not in the theater, because we never manage to get out.

I have seen every bond film to date, thoough, and I saw the piece of dogshit casiona royale that came outy in the 60s. Even if the new one was awful, it owuld have to be better....

'Cos you're a crybaby aquafaggot, and he's not.

Vod, I haven't seen the old one, but I know that it wasn't all that close to the book...something happened with the liscensing, and they jumped on it to make a comedy version...I'm sure someone knows the specifics. I saw it at my video shop, I wasn't much inclined to get it.

Absolutely.

Yeah, you can suck it.

should get it .. great burt bacharach music - and if it's the same version i have - it has the 1 hour TV version of Casino Royal from 1957.

American - but the technically the 1st James Bond ever made.

YEAH, I'M GAY...with a girlfriend...she's GAY too...:rolleyes:

...scraping the bottom of the ol' insult barrel?

If it were someone more important, they'd have deserved more...

If you are a fan of the gadget filled, light hearted Bond movies, then "Casino Royale" is probably not for you. But If (like myself) your a fan the Ian Fleming novels and the early Bond movies, then your in for a treat, this is the best Bond movie in twenty years. Tough, brutal and action packed. Daniel Craig proves he's the man to take on Connery's mantle. No silly gadgets, no bad jokes, just good solid acting and terriffic action. Now don't get me wrong. I've enjoyed most of the Bond films (except "A View To A Kill" that one was awful) but I'm glad they have gone back to the basics. It just proves that in a world of Jason Bourne's and Jack Bauer's that Bond is still the best.