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Casino Royale is a 2006 spy thriller film, the twenty-first in the James Bond series by Eon Productions, the third screen adaptation of Ian Fleming's 1953 novel of the same name, and the first to star Daniel Craig as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. The second entry in the film series to be directed by Martin Campbell, Casino Royale's screenplay was written by Neal Purvis, Robert Wade and Paul…
Casino Royale is a 2006 spy thriller film, the twenty-first in the James Bond series by Eon Productions, the third screen adaptation of Ian Fleming's 1953 novel of the same name, and the first to star Daniel Craig as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond.
The second entry in the film series to be directed by Martin Campbell, Casino Royale's screenplay was written by Neal Purvis, Robert Wade and Paul Haggis; the film co-stars Eva Green, Mads Mikkelsen, Judi Dench and Jeffrey Wright. In the film, Bond is on a mission to bankrupt the terrorism financier Le Chiffre (Mikkelsen) in a high-stakes poker game at the Casino Royale in Montenegro.
It is also the first Bond film not to be part of the franchise's original loose continuity. Following Die Another Day (2002), Eon decided to reboot the franchise, attempting to provide a realistic and darker exploration of a less experienced and more vulnerable Bond. Casting involved a widespread search for a new actor to succeed Pierce Brosnan as Bond; the choice of Craig, announced in October 2005, initially proved controversial. Principal photography took place in the Bahamas, Italy, the United Kingdom and the Czech Republic, with interior sets built at Pinewood Studios and Barrandov Studios, from January to July 2006. The film features primarily practical stuntwork as opposed to the computer-generated placements seen in other Bond films.
Casino Royale premiered at the Odeon Leicester Square on 14 November 2006, and was theatrically released first in the United Kingdom on 16 November, and in the United States a day later, by Sony Pictures Releasing under the Columbia Pictures banner, the first Bond film to do so. The film received critical acclaim, with praise for Craig's reinvention of the character and the departure from the tropes of previous Bond films. It grossed over $606 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.
MI6 operative James Bond is promoted to 00 agent after assassinating traitorous MI6 section chief Dryden and his contact in Prague. In Uganda, Mr. White introduces Steven Obanno, a commander of the Lord's Resistance Army, to Le Chiffre, an Albanian private banker to terrorists. Obanno entrusts Le Chiffre with $100 million to invest. Planning a terrorist attack on aerospace manufacturer Skyfleet, Le Chiffre uses Obanno's money to short the company's stock.
In Madagascar, Bond destroys an embassy while capturing and then killing a bomb maker named Mollaka. M, the head of MI6, chastises Bond for causing an international incident and ignoring her orders to take Mollaka alive. Information on Mollaka's phone leads Bond to corrupt Greek official Alex Dimitrios, who had hired Mollaka at Le Chiffre's request to bomb Skyfleet's prototype airliner. In the Bahamas, Bond seduces Dimitrios' wife and learns that he is going to Miami International Airport. He follows Dimitrios there and kills him, then chases down the new bomber Dimitrios had hired and prevents the destruction of the airliner. With Skyfleet's prototype secure, Le Chiffre's stock shorting scheme fails, losing over $100 million.
To recoup his clients' money, Le Chiffre organises a Texas hold 'em tournament at the Casino Royale in Montenegro. MI6 enters Bond—the agency's best poker player—in the tournament, believing a defeat will force Le Chiffre to seek asylum with the British government in exchange for information on his clients. Bond is paired with Vesper Lynd, a British Treasury agent overseeing the $10 million buy-in. They meet their contact, French secret service agent René Mathis, in Montenegro. Obanno, furious over his failed investment, threatens Le Chiffre, but allows him to continue playing to win back the money. Obanno and his bodyguard discover and attack an eavesdropping Bond, who kills them both.
Bond grows confident when he detects Le Chiffre's tell, but loses his $10 million stake after Le Chiffre is tipped off. Vesper refuses to authorise an additional $5 million for Bond to continue, but fellow player and CIA agent Felix Leiter stakes Bond the money in exchange for letting the CIA arrest Le Chiffre. Le Chiffre's lover, Valenka, poisons Bond's drink, but Vesper rescues him. Bond returns to the game and wins the tournament. A desperate Le Chiffre kidnaps Vesper to trap Bond and takes them to an abandoned ship. He tortures Bond to reveal the password to the bank account holding his winnings, but Bond resists. White bursts in and kills Le Chiffre, but spares Bond and Vesper.
Bond awakens in hospital and recovers with Vesper at his side. He has Mathis arrested, believing that he had tipped off Le Chiffre about his tell. Bond falls in love with Vesper and resigns from MI6; the couple sail to Venice. When M reveals that his winnings were never transferred to the British treasury, Bond realises that Vesper has betrayed him and he tracks her to an exchange of the money. Gunmen spot him and take her captive inside a gutted Venetian palace undergoing restoration and supported by large flotation devices. Bond destroys the flotation devices, causing the palace to lurch and sink into the Grand Canal. While he kills the shooters, Vesper is trapped in an elevator cage as it submerges. Bond dives in to rescue her, but she locks herself in to prevent him and she drowns. Bond later fails to resuscitate her, and White escapes with the money.
Casino Royale had been produced as a 1954 television episode starring Barry Nelson as Bond and Peter Lorre as the villain Le Chiffre, as well as a 1967 ensemble satirical film starring David Niven, Pe
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M informs Bond, who has returned to service, that the organisation behind Le Chiffre threatened to kill Vesper's lover unless she became a double agent. When Bond denounces Vesper as a traitor, M reasons that she likely made a deal with White by trading the winnings for Bond's life. Realising Vesper left her phone to help him, Bond checks her contacts and locates White at an estate in Lake Como. He shoots White in the leg to disable him and introduces himself: "The name's Bond, James Bond."
