With this film, the series’ new leading man, Daniel Craig, who was, bafflingly, the subject of much online and press criticism due to his blonde hair and blue eyes, proved to the world that he had the potential to be arguably the best Bond on the big screen.Įssentially an origin story for Agent 007, Martin Campbell’s Casino Royale follows James Bond (played by Daniel Craig) on some of his first missions, the most important of which revolves around the private banker Le Chiffre (played by Mads Mikkelsen), a mathematical genius with an injury to his left eye. From GoldenEye-director Martin Campbell, 2006’s Casino Royale was meant to reinvigorate the franchise and bring it into a new era distinctly different from Pierce Brosnan’s tenure that ended in 2002. Now that Daniel Craig’s tenure as James Bond appears to have come to an end after the release of 2021’s No Time To Die, I thought it would be fitting to take another look back at his first Bond-film, Casino Royale. Eva Green as Vesper Lynd and Daniel Craig as James Bond in CASINO ROYALE - Photo: Sony Pictures Releasing / Eon Productions.ĭirected by Martin Campbell (GoldenEye) - Screenplay by Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, and Paul Haggis.
