“ It received an overwhelmingly positive critical response,
with reviewers highlighting Craig's reinvention of the character and the film's departure from the tropes of previous Bond films.
He praised the film's "fast start" and the scenes up to the baccarat
game between Bond and Le Chiffre. As late as 2011, the film was still making money for the estate of Peter Sellers, who negotiated an extraordinary 3% of
the gross profits (an estimated £120 million), with the proceeds currently going to Cassie Unger, daughter and
sole heir of Sellers' beneficiary, fourth wife Lynne Frederick.
As a result, Sellers was unavailable for the filming of an ending and other interlinking scenes, leaving the filmmakers to devise a way
to make the existing footage work without him.
Part of the behind-the-scenes drama of production concerned
the filming of Sellers' segments. They discover that the casino is located atop a giant underground headquarters run by SMERSH’s evil Dr.
Noah, who is revealed to be Sir James's nephew Jimmy Bond,
a former MI6 agent believed to have been killed on a mission.
The film introduced Eva Green as Vesper Lynd, a Treasury agent and Bond’s love interest, and Mads Mikkelsen as
Le Chiffre, a banker to the world’s terrorists.
The screenplay, written by Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, and Paul Haggis, focused on Bond’s early career as a 00-agent, exploring his
origins and his first major mission. Casino Royale was developed as a reboot of the James Bond franchise, aiming to reintroduce the character with a more realistic and grounded approach.
Casino Royale was intended as the first of a series, and it received
generally favourable reviews and satisfactory sales in Britain. He now plans
to recoup the money at the gambling tables of Casino
Royale in the resort town of Royale-les-Eaux,
France, and M, the head of MI6, gives Bond the mission of ensuring that he loses.
They discover that the casino is located atop a giant underground headquarters run by the
evil Dr. Noah, secretly Sir James' nephew Jimmy Bond, a former MI6 agent who defected to Smersh to spite his
famous uncle. In the 1967 spoof film Casino Royale,
baccarat expert Evelyn Tremble is recruited to beat Smersh agent Le Chiffre.
During the film, the terrorist financier Le Chiffre uses a Ugandan warlord's money to short-sell stock in an aviation firm, thus betting the money on the company's failure.
Casino Royale is a fictional casino which first appears in Ian Fleming's 1953 James Bond novel Casino Royale, located in the fictional French seaside resort of Royale-les-Eaux. ”