Casino Royale (2006 film)

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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 directed by Martin Campbell, director of the 1995 Bond film GoldenEye. 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. The film, and Daniel Craig's performance in particular, quickly earned critical acclaim. It is the highest grossing James Bond film to date.[1] It is also the 33rd highest-grossing film of all-time and the 6th highest grossing film of all-time in the United Kingdom.[2]

The film is a reboot of the Bond franchise. The events in the film are not designed to precede Dr. No or any other Bond films, as in a prequel; instead, they establish a new timeline and narrative framework, though it is still considered the 21st entry in the film series by EON Productions. This film marks 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.

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.[3]

Plot

Template:Spoiler At the opening of the film, 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. The killing of the associate in the men's room leads to the opening credits. Unlike in other Bond films, the opening (including the MGM and Columbia logos) is filmed in black and white, and the gunbarrel sequence is modified to form part of the opening titles.

Bond then travels to Madagascar in pursuit of an international bomb-maker. After a free running 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, which enrages M, his boss at MI6. Bond's target had been working for Le Chiffre, an unscrupulous banker who manages money for terrorist organizations. Le Chiffre uses his connections to stage attacks against certain companies in order to short sell their stocks with his clients' funds. Bond foils Le Chiffre's plans to blow up a prototype airliner at Miami International Airport, which causes huge losses for Le Chiffre. To recoup this loss, Le Chiffre sets up a high-stakes Texas hold 'em poker tournament at Casino Royale in Montenegro. MI6 enters Bond in the tournament to bankrupt Le Chiffre. If Bond succeeds, it will deny Le Chiffre the money he needs and force him 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.

During the game, Bond misreads Le Chiffre as bluffing and loses his initial stake. Vesper refuses to give him the funds to rebuy, but the CIA's Felix Leiter offers to stake Bond in exchange for Le Chiffre. Bond wins the tournament, 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. Before he can, Mr. White arrives and kills Le Chiffre and his associates while leaving Bond and Vesper alive. Bond awakens in a hospital on Lake Como and has Mathis, whom Le Chiffre suggested was a double agent, arrested. Mathis's affiliation is left ambiguous at the conclusion of the film.

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. Upon locating several of this group's men hiding there, he deliberately shoots and ruptures the flotation devices supporting the structure and the foundation collapses slowly into the Grand Canal. Vesper apologizes to Bond and commits suicide by locking herself in an elevator that sinks underwater. Bond dives underwater in an attempt to rescue Vesper and though he manages to break into the elevator and bring Vesper to the surface, it 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 bitch 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 organisation. Bond, who has Vesper's mobile phone, discovers that she left Mr. White's name and number for Bond 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, with a silenced submachine gun and responds to Mr. White's question with the iconic catch phrase "The name's Bond. James Bond." Template:Endspoiler

Cast

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Promotional photo of James Bond and Bond girls Vesper Lynd played by Eva Green (left) and Solange played by Caterina Murino (right).
  • Daniel Craig as James Bond: A British agent who, after being assigned 00-status, is sent on a mission to arrest a bombmaker in Madagascar, where he stumbles upon Le Chiffre's terrorist cell and is then sent to defeat him in a high-stakes poker game at Casino Royale.
  • Eva Green as Vesper Lynd: An agent for HM Treasury assigned to supervise Bond and finance his poker table exploits.
  • Mads Mikkelsen as Le Chiffre: A shady and evil banker to the world's terrorists. He is a mathematical genius and chess expert, skills he uses when playing poker. Believed to be Albanian. His left eye is scarred and weeps blood.
  • Judi Dench as M: The strict head of MI6. Though she feels she has promoted 007 too soon, she is quite maternal towards him. As a reboot she appears as the first M to employ Bond, despite having appeared as an incoming M in Goldeneye.
  • Jeffrey Wright as Felix Leiter: A CIA Operative participating in the film's central poker tournament. Bond had previously first met Leiter in Dr. No but is introduced for the first time in Casino Royale, since the film is a reboot of the Bond series and all previous movies are set in an alternate timeline. Although Leiter has been portrayed by a wide variety of Caucasian actors throughout the series, this is the first official Bond film in which he is played by a black actor. The only other black actor to portray Felix Leiter was Bernie Casey in Never Say Never Again, which was an unofficial James Bond movie.
  • Giancarlo Giannini as Rene Mathis: Bond's contact in Montenegro.
  • Caterina Murino as Solange Dimitrios: Dimitrios's wife, whom Bond seduces. Solange was the name of a Bond girl in Ian Fleming's short story "007 in New York", which is currently included in the collection Octopussy and The Living Daylights. The name is also mentioned in the short story "From a View to a Kill", which is included in the For Your Eyes Only collection.
  • Simon Abkarian as Alex Dimitrios: An associate of Le Chiffre, based in the Bahamas.
  • Isaach De Bankolé as Steven Obanno: A ruthless Ugandan warlord introduced to Le Chiffre by Mr. White.
  • Jesper Christensen as Mr. White: A mysterious and shady liaison between the world's terrorists.
  • Ivana Miličević as Valenka: Le Chiffre's girlfriend and henchwoman.
  • Sebastien Foucan as Mollaka: A bombmaker pursued through a construction site in Madagascar.
  • Ludger Pistor as Mendel: A Swiss banker responsible for all monetary transactions during and after the poker tournament.

Two major exclusions from the film are the characters of Q and Miss Moneypenny. They were not included in the screenplay, which makes this only the second Bond film without Q since his initial appearance in From Russia With Love (1973's Live and Let Die being the first) and the first without Moneypenny. In October 2005, producer Michael G. Wilson stated that the omission of the characters was due to the characters not appearing in the novel; however, Moneypenny was in the novel and had one line of dialogue, although Major Boothroyd, which the films transformed into the character Q, did not appear until several books later.[4]

Cameos

The movie features cameo roles by British entrepreneur Richard Branson (seen being frisked at an airport), American hotel tycoon Jerry Inzerillo, Brazilian supermodel Alessandra Ambrosio (seen when Bond first approaches the Ocean Club), and Sens Unik rapper Carlos Leal. Key members of the production also feature in cameo roles — producer Michael G. Wilson appears as the corrupt Montenegrin police chief, continuing his long-standing tradition of Bond film cameos dating from Goldfinger, while director of cinematography Phil Meheux features briefly as a treasury bureaucrat and the film's director Martin Campbell makes a fleeting cameo as the face of the murdered petrol tanker driver at Miami Airport. In addition, Tsai Chin, who played Ling in the opening sequence of You Only Live Twice, and Diane Hartford, who had a small part in Thunderball (as the girl Bond dances with while escaping from Fiona Volpe) appear respectively as Madame Wu (the Chinese Woman playing cards with Le Chiffre aboard his yacht) and one of the players in the Bahamas poker game. Sixties model "Veruschka" von Lehndorff also appears in the background at the casino.[5]

Production

Development

The film is said to take James Bond "back to his roots" in a film that would be similar to From Russia with Love, where the focus was on character and plot rather than high-tech gadgets and visual effects, two issues that were most criticised in Die Another Day.[citation needed] Additionally, EON admitted that they relied too heavily on CGI effects and accomplished the stunts in Casino Royale "the old fashioned way."[6] The move towards more action, bigger special effects and CGI in recent Bond films was in part due to a need to compete at the time with big-budget action films that dominated the 1990s box office.[citation needed] However, the success of less grandiose action films such as The Bourne Supremacy in the last few years has suggested the time may be right for the Bond series to scale back as it did during the Roger Moore era with For Your Eyes Only, which followed special effects extravaganzas like Moonraker.[citation needed]

Casting

Pierce Brosnan had a three film contract with an option of the fourth that expired with Die Another Day; and in the Die Another Day DVD Pierce stated: "I had a blast-I wanted to go out with a high note (Die Another Day), but I think it's time for both me and the producers to move on, I'm done with Bond". In 2003, Pierce Brosnan said, "that's it, I'm done with Bond".[7]

Throughout 2004 and 2005, an endless stream of potential new "Bonds", both unknowns and established Hollywood actors, were announced by some media. Michael G. Wilson claimed there was a list of over 200 names.[citation needed] Of note, Eric Bana, Clive Owen, Hugh Jackman,Sam Key and Daniel Craig were at one point confirmed to have been signed or to have been offered the role by various news outlets.[citation needed] Rumours surrounding Owen intensified in early 2005 after he was awarded a Golden Globe and a BAFTA and nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his 2004 film, Closer.

In May 2005, Daniel Craig stated that MGM had assured him that he had the job, likewise Matthew Vaughn told reporters that MGM offered him the opportunity to direct, but for both EON Productions had not approached them.[8] Later, Craig stated that the producers offered him the role, but he turned the role down when they didn't have a script for him to read first.[9] By August 2005, the 37-year-old Daniel Craig was still considered by many to be in the running. On October 14 2005, EON Productions and Sony Pictures Entertainment confirmed to the public that Daniel Craig would be the new James Bond.

After Daniel Craig was announced as James Bond, attention turned to the casting of the lead Bond girl, Vesper Lynd. Casting director Debbie McWilliams has acknowledged that Angelina Jolie and Charlize Theron were "strongly considered" for the role.[10] McWilliams also stated that Cécile de France auditioned for the role, but her English accent "wasn't up to scratch." Audrey Tautou was also considered, but ultimately not chosen because of her role in The Da Vinci Code that was released in May 2006.[11] Eva Green was finally announced as having been cast on February 16 2006.

Filming

See also: James Bond locations
Craig and Michael G. Wilson in Venice during filming.

Principal photography for Casino Royale commenced on January 30, 2006, and concluded on July 21, 2006. The film was primarily shot at Barrandov Studios in Prague, with additional location shooting in the Czech Republic, the Bahamas, Italy and the United Kingdom. Production returned to its traditional home of Pinewood Studios to complete the shooting schedule.

Initially, Michael G. Wilson confirmed that Casino Royale would be filmed and/or take place in Prague and South Africa. However, following problems for EON Productions in securing film locations in South Africa,[12] the producers had to reconsider their options. On September 13, 2005, CommanderBond.net reported that Martin Campbell (director) and Phil Meheux (director of photography) were scouting Paradise Island in the Bahamas as a possible location for the film.[13] On October 6, 2005, Martin Campbell confirmed that Casino Royale would film in the Bahamas and "maybe Italy." In addition to the extensive location filming, studio work was done at the Barrandov Studios in Prague and at Pinewood Studios in England, where the film used several stages as well as the paddock tank and the historic Albert R. Broccoli 007 Stage. Further shooting in the UK was scheduled for Dunsfold Aerodrome in Surrey, the cricket pavilion at Eton College (although that particular scene was cut from the completed movie) and the Millbrook Vehicle Proving Ground in Bedfordshire.

After principal photography had commenced in Prague on January 30 2006, the production moved to the Bahamas. Several locations around New Providence were used for filming during February and March, largely on Paradise Island and in the southern Coral Harbour area, with an abandoned Royal Bahamian Air Force base being a particularly important location for the production. Footage set in Uganda was filmed at Black Park, Country Park in Buckinghamshire concluding on July 4 2006. Additional scenes took place at Albany House — an estate recently acquired by golfers Ernie Els and Tiger Woods.[14]

The crew returned to the Czech Republic in April, and continued there, filming in Prague, Planá and Loket, before completing in the town of Karlovy Vary in May. A disused spa, formerly known as the Kaiserbad, in Karlovy Vary was used as the exterior of the Casino Royale, with the Grandhotel Pupp serving as the "Hotel Splendide" where Bond stays during his time in Montenegro.[15]

The main Italian location alluded to by Campbell is Venice, where the majority of the film's ending is set. Other scenes in the latter half of the film were filmed in late May and early June at the Villa del Balbianello on the shores of Lake Como.[16] Further exterior shooting for the movie took place at properties such as the Villa la Gaeta, near the lakeside town of Menaggio.

On July 30, 2006, a fire broke out at the Albert R. Broccoli 007 Stage at Pinewood. The damage was significant, but had no effect on the release of Casino Royale as the sets were in the process of being taken down.[17] The incident occurred one week after filming of Casino Royale had been completed. On 11 August 2006, Pinewood Studios confirmed that no attempt would be made to salvage the remains of the stage, which would be demolished.[18] A couple of months afterwards, it was announced that the 007 Stage would be rebuilt.[19]

Vehicles and gadgets

Main articles: List of James Bond vehicles and List of James Bond gadgets

Soundtrack

Main article: Casino Royale (2006 soundtrack)

The soundtrack to the 2006 film Casino Royale was released by Sony Classical on November 14, 2006. The music was composed by David Arnold and is Arnold's fourth soundtrack for the film series. Frequent collaborator Nicholas Dodd orchestrated and conducted the score. The title song You Know My Name is performed by Chris Cornell, though it is not present on the soundtrack but released as a separate single.

The soundtrack plays on themes built from the title song. Consistent with the reboot of the James Bond storyline, only at the end, when Bond resumes his usual role, is the classic James Bond theme used.

The music featured in the official trailer for the movie is attributed to "Pfeifer Broz". The music features a choir chanting a section of the traditional Bond theme. The choir does not appear in the main soundtrack.

Release and response

Casino Royale premiered at the Odeon Leicester Square, the Odeon West End and the Empire simultaneously in London on November 14, 2006. It marked the 60th Royal Film Performance and benefited the Cinema & Television Benevolent Fund (CTBF), whose patron, Queen Elizabeth II, was in attendance with the Duke of Edinburgh. It was the third James Bond premiere that the Queen had attended following You Only Live Twice (1967) and Die Another Day (2002).[21][22] Along with the cast and crew, numerous celebrities and 5,000 paying guests were also in attendance with half the proceeds benefiting the CTBF.

Critics

Reviewers gave a positive response to the film, especially to Craig's performance. Rotten Tomatoes gave the movie an aggregate rating of 94%, the highest rating for a wide-release of the year and the third-highest rating for a Bond film, to The Spy Who Loved Me and From Russia with Love which both received a 96% [13] [14] and Dr. No, one of the few films to receive a 100% rating from the site [15]. The Users' rating was 92%.[23] Metacritic gave the movie a Metascore of 80 signifying "Generally Favorable Reviews." The movie has also attained a weighted average of 7.9/10 from IMDB users. The Daily Mirror (which had once run a front page news story critical of Craig, with the headline, The Name's Bland - James Bland[24]) and The Daily Telegraph compared him to Sean Connery, and the latter praised the script as smartly written, the former noting how the film departed from the series' conventions. The Times also compared Craig to Timothy Dalton, and praised the action as edgy,[25] with another reviewer citing in particular the crane sequence in Madagascar.[26] Paul Arendt of BBC Films went higher in his praise, acclaiming Craig as the first actor to truly nail Ian Fleming's character.[27] Kim Newman of Empire[28] and Todd McCarthy of Variety agreed.[29] In North America, the movie was also tremendously well-received. MSNBC gave the movie a perfect 5 star rating. [30]

Michael Medved gave Casino Royale three stars (out of four) calling it "...intriguing, audacious and very original...". Medved further stated that it is "...more believable, less cartoonish, than previous 007 extravaganzas.", but the "...sometimes sluggish pacing will frustrate some Bond fanatics."[31] A reviewer for The Sun praised the film for its darkness and Craig's performance although they felt "like the novel, it suffers from a lack of sharpness in the plot" and felt it required some editing.[32] A down note came from Tim Adams of The Observer who felt the film came off uncomfortably in an attempt to make the series grittier.[33] Emanuell Levy agreed, feeling the film's terrorist villains lacked depth, and the ending was long, although he praised Craig and gave the film a B+ overall.[34] On the other hand, Steve Sailer of The American Conservative called the film "mediocre in execution and bloated in conception, wrapping the usual elephantine Bond movie mechanics around Fleming's minimal plot (in the book, Bond doesn't even get to kill anybody)."[35] Richard Roeper gave the film a 3 out of 4. In a poll conducted by IMDb, Casino Royale was voted by respondents as their favorite Bond film.[36]

On January, 4, 2007, the film was nominated for 9 BAFTA awards, including Best British Film and Best Actor (Craig).[37] This makes Craig the first actor to receive a BAFTA nomination for a performance as James Bond.

Box office

Opening day estimates in the United States and Canada show it on top with $14,750,000. Opening weekend estimates in the United States and Canada put it in second place with $40,600,000,[38] as well as earning another $42,000,000 internationally. Though Happy Feet won the weekend box office overall figures, Casino Royale, per theatre, outperformed Happy Feet which was released in 370 more theatres. Also, Happy Feet, having little more than half the running time of Casino Royale, has had more showings per day. According to Box Office Mojo, Casino Royale acquired, on average, $11,890 per theatre, while Happy Feet grossed $10,918 per theatre.[39][40] United Kingdom ticket sales for the first day of release were GBP 1.7 million, the highest for any Bond film. The record was held previously by Die Another Day (GBP 1.1million).[41]. Even though the film had parts cut, and was rated PG-13, on the opening day it grossed more than twice as much as the former record-holder.[42] Weekend opening total in the UK was £13,400,000, beating the previous record of £9,100,000 held by Pierce Brosnan's Die Another Day. It became the third biggest opening weekend of all time, behind Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest. Die Another Day's entire British intake ($59,000,000) was outgrossed by Casino Royale after two weeks, having taken over $73,450,000. The film has had the biggest Bond opening in the Republic of Ireland with over €1,100,000 in the first 2 weeks. From November 16th to November 19th, the film took in over $43,407,886. The film has broken several records, including taking over Rs. 149,400,000 ($3,386,987) in the first three days of release (17 November to 19 November) in India, more than any other western film [43] . In Russia, the film made over $3,800,000, the eighth largest opening for a non-Russian film.[44] On November 26th the intake was updated, showing the box office intake outside the USA to be over $128,200,000. Casino Royale opened at #1 in 27 countries, with a weekend gross of $43,407,886 worldwide. [45] Casino Royale has so far grossed over $590,352,994 worldwide and over $423,632,200 outside of America,[46] breaking both the domestic and international Box Office records of Die Another Day.

China

In January 2007 Casino Royale became the first Bond film to be shown in mainland Chinese cinemas. It was reported that the film was released without change, but it later emerged, the Chinese version was edited before release, having a line about the Cold War re-dubbed and a new dialogue added during the poker scene explaining the process of Texas Hold'em, as the game is less well known in China. In January 2007 Casino Royale became the first Bond film to be shown in mainland Chinese cinemas. [47] In China Bond is known as "Ling Ling Qi" which is Mandarin for "007" Cantonese for "007" would be "Ling Ling Chut". So far Casino Royale has made around $6.9 million since its opening Jan. 30 from 468 screens, [48] including a record opening for a non-Chinese film of $1.5 million. [49]

UK

The film premiered in London on Nov. 14, 2006, and sold £1.7m of tickets in the UK on its first day of release. On the opening day the film grossed more than twice as much as the former record-holder. The film was rated 12, the same rating as the four previous Bond films, to achieve this a single shot had to be removed from the torture sequence. [50] The film remains the sixth highest grossing film of all time in the UK with a box office total around $108-$109 million.[51]

Black Market

The box office coup was immediately followed by pirate copies of the film, which appeared for sale in London two days after the premiere. “The rapid appearance of this film on the streets shows the sophistication and organisation behind film piracy in the UK,” said Kieron Sharp, from the Federation Against Copyright Theft.[52] Pirated copies of the DVD were selling for less than £1. Craig himself is quoted as having been offered such a DVD while walking anonymously through the streets of Beijing "wearing a hat and glasses so they didn't recognise me."[53]

Awards

Won

2006 Golden Tomato Awards[54]

Wide Release film of the year 2006

The International Press Academy Satellite Awards[55]

Best Original Song - Chris Cornell

Evening Standard British Film Awards[56]

Best Actor - Daniel Craig

BAFTAs[57]

Sound - Chris Munro/Eddy Joseph/Mike Prestwood Smith/Martin Cantwell/Mark Taylor
Orange Rising Star Award - Eva Green

Visual Effects Society[58]

Outstanding Special Effects in a Motion Picture - Chris Corbould, Peter Notley, Ian Lowe, Roy Quinn

Art Directors Guild[59]

Excellence in production design in Contemporary Film - Peter Lamont

Nominated

BAFTAs[60]

Outstanding British Film of the Year
Adapted Screenplay - Neal Purvis/Robert Wade/Paul Haggis
Actor in a Leading Role - Daniel Craig
Achievement in Film Music - David Arnold
Cinematography - Phil Meheux
Editing - Stuart Baird
Production Design - Peter Lamont/Simon Wakefield
Achievement in Special Visual Effects - Steve Begg/Chris Corbould

Sony Ericsson Empire Film Awards[61]

Scene of the Year - The parkour chase.

The Irish Film and Television Awards[62]

Best International Film

American Cinema Editors[63]

Editing in a Dramatic feature film - Stuart Baird

Costume Designers Guild[64]

Excellence in contemporary film - Lindy Hemming

Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award[65]

Best Motion Picture Screenplay

The Saturn Awards[66]

Best Action/adventure/thriller film
Best Actor, Daniel Craig
Best Supporting Actress, Eva Green
Best Writing, Purvis & Wade, Haggis
Best Music, David Arnold

DVD release

Casino Royale's release on DVD is scheduled for March 13, 2007[67] and will also be accompanied by releases on UMD and Blu-ray Disc. No VHS release is planned, a first for a James Bond movie.

In the UK, Casino Royale is scheduled for March 19, 2007 on DVD and Sony's HD format Blu-ray March 13, 2007.[68]

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