Additionally, the character Miss Moneypenny is, for the first time in the series, completely absent. The story arc continues in the following Bond film, Quantum of Solace (2008).Ĭasino Royale reboots the series, establishing a new timeline and narrative framework not meant to precede or succeed any previous Bond film, which allows the film to show a less experienced and more vulnerable Bond. After preventing a terrorist attack at Miami International Airport, Bond falls in love with Vesper Lynd, the treasury employee assigned to provide the money he needs to bankrupt a terrorist financier, Le Chiffre, by beating him in a high-stakes poker game.
Casino Royale is set at the beginning of Bonds career as Agent 007, just as he is earning his licence to kill. Directed by Martin Campbell and written by Neal Purvis, Robert Wade and Paul Haggis, the film marks the third screen adaptation of Ian Flemings 1953 novel of the same name. Casino Royale is the twenty-first film in the Eon Productions James Bond film series and the first to star Daniel Craig as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond.
