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Robert Wade Washday
The 3rd version and first EON Production version of Casino Royale was released on November 17, 2006. Daniel Craig took over the role of Bond becoming 6th EON James Bond. The film was the start of a pocket universe of Bond separate from the Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, and Pierce Brosnan films before it. Judi Dench was the only one who crossed over both Bond universes playing M in both. The Craig Bond universe restarted the tradition of using Fleming book titles (they had been using unique titles since The Living Daylights) at least for the first two movies, took on a more serious and realistic tone, the movies were more connected and less stand alone, and had the same actor play Felix Leiter (in the previous franchise films Felix was played by a different actor each time, with only one actor playing it twice). Casino Royale was the first Bond book Ian Fleming wrote. The movie serves as a Bond origin story. The movie stayed close to the main plot points of the book including the torture scene and the down ending. The movie set a world record for most barrel rolls assisted by a cannon. The film became the highest grossing Bond film (until Skyfall) and is often considered by many fans as the best Bond film in the franchise. "Casino Royale", Bond Movie Event)
No Time to Die (2021)
Directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga
Cinematography by Linus Sandgren
- I get why you shot him. - Yeah, well, everyone tries at least once.
No Time to Die, Cary Joji Fukunaga (2021)
Movie #21 of 2022: No Time To Die
Ana de Armas shows up and for 10 minutes it feels like a Bond movie.
Let Him Have It was released in the UK on 4 October 1991.
Based on the 1953 execution of 19-year-old Derek Bentley, an “illiterate, epileptic with developmental disabilities,” who was found guilty of the murder of a police officer, the film was considered responsible for re-introducing the case to the public consciousness and helping overturn his conviction in 1998 (Elvis Costello had included a song about the case, “Let Him Dangle” on his 1989 album Spike).
Bentley’s conviction rested on the phrase “Let him have it,” which Bentley yelled at Christopher Craig, who shot the police officer (Bentley was unarmed). The defense argued that Bentley was telling Craig to hand his gun over, while the prosecution argued that he was instructing the 16-year-old Craig to shoot. Both Bentley and Craig denied that the phrased had ever been used.
While Bentley was sentenced to death, Craig was sentenced to prison, where he served 10 years. Capital punishment was abolished in England in 1965.
Neal Purvis and Robert Wade’s screenplay was praised for “sticking close” to the facts of the story, and 27-year-old Christopher Eccleston received positive reviews for his portrayal of Bentley. The film was released in the US in January 1992.
CASINO ROYALE
Casino Royale (2006) is the twenty-first spy film in the Eon Productions James Bond film series
Directed by Martin Campbell
Written by Neal Purvis & Robert Wade and Paul Haggis
Starring Daniel Craig, Eva Green, Mads Mikkelsen
The story arc continues in the following Bond film Quantum of Solace (2008), Skyfall (2012), and Spectre (2015) also feature explicit references to characters and events in this film.