So MUCH has been made of the decision to cast Daniel Craig as the new 007 that
it’s easy to forget that very little is still known about the movie.
Yet now that the dust has begun to settle on the new blonde Bond and early
footage suggests we’re in for a 007 treat, maybe now’s the time to kick back and
begin looking forward to the prospect of a re-imagined franchise.
Casino Royale promises to offer a James Bond outing
appropriate for its time. Aware that the franchise has been overtaken by the
likes of The Bourne Supremacy and Mission: Impossible, producers Barbara
Brocccoli and Michael Wilson have decided to go back to basics.
Gone are the notion of invisible cars, futuristic gadgets and unlikely
super-villains, replaced instead by gritty human beings faced with realistic
situations. Even Bond is rumoured to be more vulnerable (especially in his
nether regions, but we’ll come to that).
It’s a risk but one that appears worth taking after the relative
disappointment of Pierce Brosnan’s last outing, Die Another Day. According to
various reports, this is a return to classic Bond that tells the story the
producers have been waiting to tell – how Bond became Bond in the first
place.
Hence, the film – much like the Ian Fleming book upon which it’s based –
finds the secret agent on his maiden 00 mission, pitted against a terrorist
financier named Le Chiffre (played by Danish actor, Mads Mikkelsen).
