Casino Royale: Book vs. Movie

Martin Campbell's 2006 film Casino Royale adapts Ian Fleming's first James Bond book. Daniel Craig plays the newly promoted 00 agent, with Eva Green as Vesper Lynd and Mads Mikkelsen as Le Chiffre.

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Book
Casino Royale cover
Author
Ian Fleming
Year
1953
Pages
224Buy book
Audiobook length
5 hr 44 minGet audiobook
Narrator
Richard Armitage
Series
James Bond, book 1

British agent James Bond travels to Royale-les-Eaux to ruin Le Chiffre at the baccarat table, hoping a gambling defeat will make the Soviet operative answer to his own employers. Vesper Lynd joins the mission as Bond commits government money to a contest he cannot afford to lose. Away from the casino, intimidation and his growing attachment to Vesper make professional detachment increasingly difficult.

Movie
Casino Royale poster
Director
Martin Campbell
Writer
Neal Purvis, Paul Haggis, Robert Wade
Year
2006
Runtime
2 hr 24 minWatch on Amazon
Cast
Daniel Craig, Eva Green, Mads Mikkelsen, Giancarlo Giannini
Genre
action, adventure, crime, spy, thriller
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Newly promoted to 00 status, James Bond pursues a financier who handles money for terrorists. The trail leads to a high-stakes poker game in Montenegro, where Treasury official Vesper Lynd must keep watch over the government's stake and its unpredictable agent. Bond needs to beat Le Chiffre at the table while surviving opponents who have no intention of letting the cards settle matters.

Other adaptations of this book

  1. 1Casino RoyaleMovie · 1967
    Details
    Casino Royale poster
    Director
    John Huston, Val Guest, Ken Hughes, Robert Parrish, Joseph McGrath
    Writer
    Wolf Mankowitz, John Law, Michael Sayers
    Year
    1967
    Runtime
    2 hr 11 min
    Cast
    David Niven, Peter Sellers, Ursula Andress, Orson Welles

    Retired spy Sir James Bond is persuaded to confront SMERSH after agents begin disappearing. His solution involves giving multiple operatives the name James Bond and the number 007, while baccarat expert Evelyn Tremble prepares to challenge Le Chiffre at the casino. Seductions, impersonations and rival schemes turn an intelligence operation into a scramble in which almost everyone has a secret identity.

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