Introduction:Casino Royale (2006) 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
of the same name by Ian Fleming, it was adapted
by screenwriters Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, and
Paul Haggis and directed by Martin Campbell. It
is the third screen adaptation of the Casino
Royale novel, which was previously produced as a
1954 television episode and a 1967 satirical
film. However, the 2006 film is the only EON
Productions adaptation of Fleming’s novel. It is
a reboot of the Bond franchise, establishing a
new timeline and narrative framework not meant
to precede any previous film. This not only
frees the Bond franchise from more than forty
years of continuity to maintain, but allows the
film to show a less experienced and more
vulnerable Bond. The film is set at the
beginning of James Bond’s career as Agent 007,
having earned his license to kill. After
preventing a terrorist attack at the Miami
Airport, Bond falls for Vesper Lynd, the
treasury agent assigned to provide the money he
needs to foil a high-stakes poker tournament
organized by Le Chiffre.

In the opening sequence, James Bond is on
a mission that, if successful, will qualify him
for double-0 status. He goes to Prague and kills
an MI6 section chief, Dryden, who has leaked
classified information, and his ally, Fisher.
Elsewhere, Mr. White serves as a middleman
introducing a banker, Le Chiffre, to a guerrilla
group seeking a safe haven for its funds. Le
Chiffre assures them that there is “no risk in
the portfolio”, but his investments actually
involve considerable risk: he buys shorts on
successful companies and then engineers
terrorist attacks to sink their stock values.