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James Bond, codename 007, is a fictional character and the titular protagonist of Eon Productions' rebooted James Bond film series, first introduced in the 2006 film Casino Royale. Portrayed by British actor Daniel Craig, this interpretation of the character, and the actor portraying him, received critical praise for a "caustic, haunted, intense reinvention of 007" – a darker, more realistic tone than the lighter characterisations portrayed in past Bond films.

The rebooted series spanned five films—Casino Royale (2006), Quantum of Solace (2008), Skyfall (2012), Spectre (2015), and No Time to Die (2021)—all starring Craig. This version of Bond is killed at the end of the lattermost film, making him, to date, the only version of the character in the Eon Productions James Bond films to die.

In 2004, two years after Pierce Brosnan's final screen appearance as Bond in Die Another Day, Eon Productions decided to reboot the James Bond franchise with an adaptation of Fleming's 1953 novel Casino Royale, the first novel in the Bond series. Producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson, who own the rights to the franchise and the character, decided to portray Bond, who had been an ageless character in 20 films since 1962's Dr. No, at the beginning of his career as 007, a secret agent in the British secret service agency MI-6 with the discretionary "license to kill". Paul Haggis, who co-wrote the script with Neal Purvis and Robert Wade, said that they wanted "to do for Bond what Batman Begins did for Batman".

In October 2005, Daniel Craig was cast as Bond for the first film in the reboot series, Casino Royale, after signing a deal to play the character in four films. Director Martin Campbell decided to cast Craig after seeing his performance in the 2004 thriller film Layer Cake.

The Craig reboot series borrowed several details of Bond's early life originally created by Fleming, while incorporating geopolitical events that occurred in the 1990s and 2000s. Like Fleming's original character, Bond is the son of Sir Andrew Bond and his wife Monique, both of whom died in a climbing accident when Bond was 12. Before the death of his parents, Bond was educated in Switzerland and in West Germany, where his father was stationed as a Vickers executive. Bond briefly lived in Lodge, his family's ancestral home in Scotland, before being adopted by family friend Hannes Oberhauser. Following Oberhauser's death in an avalanche, Bond was raised by his aunt, Charmain Bond, and attended Britannia Royal Naval College.

Bond is promoted to MI-6's "00" branch as agent 007, with a discretionary "license to kill", after assassinating corrupt MI-6 Section Chief Dryden (Malcolm Sinclair), who was selling state secrets, and his terrorist contact, Fisher (Darwin Shaw). Following a botched mission in Madagascar in which he kills bombmaker Mollaka Danso (Sébastien Foucan) and creates an international incident by blowing up an embassy, he is nearly fired by MI-6 Chief M (Judi Dench), but he redeems himself after foiling a terrorist bombing of an aerospace prototype.

M sends Bond to Casino Royale in Montenegro on a mission to bankrupt terrorist financier Le Chiffre (Mads Mikkelsen) in a high-stakes poker game to force him to give MI-6 information about his clients in return for political asylum. He is accompanied by French secret agent Rene Mathis (Giancarlo Giannini) and British Treasury agent Vesper Lynd (Eva Green); Bond and Vesper eventually fall in love.

During the poker game, Le Chiffre almost kills Bond by poisoning his drink with digitalis, but Vesper saves his life, and Bond ultimately wins the game and bankrupts Le Chiffre with additional financial backing from CIA agent Felix Leiter (Jeffrey Wright). Later that night, however, Le Chiffre kidnaps Bond and Vesper and reveals that Mathis is working for him. Le Chiffre tortures Bond for the password of the account in whi