Casino Royale (2006 film)
Casino Royale is a 2006 spy film, the twenty-first in the Eon Productions James Bond series, and the third screen adaptation of Ian Fleming's 1953 novel of the same name. Directed by Martin Campbell from a screenplay by Neil Purvis, Robert Wade, and Paul Haggis, it stars Daniel Craig in his first appearance as Bond, alongside Eva Green, Mads Mikkelsen, Judi Dench, and Jeffrey Wright. In the film, Bond is on assignment to bankrupt terrorism financier Le Chiffre (Mikkelsen) in a high-stakes poker game at the Casino Royale in Montenegro.
UK theatrical release poster
Craig with Michael G. Wilson in Venice during filming aboard SV Spirit
The Grandhotel Pupp, Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic
Aston Martin DBS driven by Bond in the film
Casino Royale is the first novel by the British author Ian Fleming. Published in 1953, it is the first James Bond book, and it paved the way for a further eleven novels and two short story collections by Fleming, followed by numerous continuation Bond novels by other authors.
First edition cover, conceived by Fleming
Rear Admiral John Henry Godfrey, Fleming's superior at the Naval Intelligence Division and a basis for the character M
Hoagy Carmichael: Fleming's view of James Bond