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Casino Royale is a 1967 British-American spy parody film originally produced by Columbia Pictures featuring an ensemble cast. It is loosely based on Ian Fleming 's first James Bond novel. The film stars David Niven as the 'original' Bond, Sir James Bond 007. The script for Casino Royale worried director Martin Campbell. This was his second reboot of the James Bond franchise, and on the cusp of production, he realized the movie’s centerpiece — a.
Daniel Craig and Mads Mikkelsen in Casino Royale (Sony)Martin Charles Scorsese (/ s k ɔːr ˈ s ɛ s i /, Italian: skorˈseːze; -eːse; born November 17, 1942) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor.One of the major figures of the New Hollywood era, he is widely regarded as one of the most significant and influential directors in film history. Scorsese's body of work explores themes such as Italian-American identity.
Casino Royale was an integral movie for the James Bond franchise.
While Pierce Brosnan’s four-film stint as the spy was a financial success, his final two entries, The World Is Not Enough and especially Die Another Day, were met with negative reviews.
So when Daniel Craig was cast as Brosnan’s replacement the decision was quickly made to take Bond in a new direction.
And that’s exactly why Martin Campbell was brought in to direct 2006’s Casino Royale, as he had previously overseen Goldeneye, Brosnan’s critically-acclaimed first outing.
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Campbell has now been discussing his efforts on Casino Royale, telling Polygon that those behind the James Bond franchise “wanted to bring it back to earth” with the film.
“When I came on board, I felt the same way. I felt the whole thing needed to have its feet well and truly on the ground,” he said.
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One of the main plot points of Casino Royale revolves around Bond taking on Mads Mikkelsen’s terrorist financier Le Chiffre at a high-stakes game of poker.
Looking back on these poker sequences, Campbell said that the key to making them “convincing” was that they are not just about “the card games,” adding: “It’s the stakes. It’s also two guys eye-******* one another, basically. That was the secret.”
© Provided by Yahoo! Entertainment UK Mads Mikkelsen, Caterina Murino, Daniel Craig, director Martin Campbell, Ludger Pistor and Veruschka von Lehndorff (Photo by Anita Bugge/WireImage)Casino Royale’s editor Stuart Baird said that everyone involved was originally worried how they would “keep the audience engaged in those card games,” as they thought that people might quickly become “bored with it”.
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Campbell solved this problem by making sure the film’s 30-minute sequence set in the casino showcased Bond’s mental capability as well as his mortality. This was particularly riveting since Campbell described Craig’s Bond as “a bull in the china shop” throughout Casino Royale, adding: “He just hurls himself no matter what the dangers are, he’s not really thinking.”
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Craig’s final appearance as Bond will hopefully hit cinemas next year, as No Time To Die is still scheduled for release in April.