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MUMBAI:
Casino Royale introduces JAMES BOND before he holds his license
to kill. But Bond is no less dangerous! Catch the caustic, haunted
and intense reinvention of 007 as Casino Royale premieres on STAR
MOVIES on Saturday, Sept 06 @ 9 p.m.
The
most successful James Bond film ever, Casino Royale earned a worldwide
gross of US$594mil. Much of Casino Royale's success can be credited
to Daniel Craig. As the sixth actor to portray Bond on the big screen,
Craig proved his critics wrong and made the role his own.
 "I
don't think I would have taken the role if it had been a continuation
of Bond as we knew him," explains Craig. "It just wouldn't
have interested me."
Based
on Ian Fleming's first book in the Bond series, Casino Royale traces
the early career of 007. After his first government-sanctioned kill,
the novice spy is granted double-0 status and given a licence to
kill. "It was important for me to discover who this guy was,"
says the 40-year-old actor Craig. "By starting at the beginning
we were able to do that. I just wanted to make sure that we were
seeing a character go through some change within the movie."
In
his first mission, Bond is on the trail of Le Chiffre (Mads Mikkelsen),
a financier who channels money to terrorists. Hoping to bankrupt
him, Bond travels to the Casino Royale in Montenegro and plays against
the cash-strapped Le Chiffre in a game of high-stakes poker.
He
is joined by Vesper Lynd (Eva Green), a British Treasury official
responsible for keeping an eye on the government's money. Although
wary of Lynd at first, Bond soon falls for her charms. But their
romance jeopardizes the mission and will forever change Bond's life.
"James
meets someone who changes his life because he falls in love with
her," explains director Martin Campbell. "It very much
shapes him. At the end of it he becomes Bond, the one that we all
know."
Having
helmed 1995's GoldenEye, Campbell returns to the franchise for Casino
Royale. "GoldenEye was very much a traditional Bond,"
explains Campbell. "You still had the bad guys trying to destroy
the world, all the usual scenarios. Casino Royale is much more down
to earth."
Daniel
Craig Holds all the Cards in Casino Royale
"There's one whopper of a reason why Casino Royale is the hippest,
highest-octane Bond film in ages, and his name is Daniel Craig."
- Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
"What a relief to escape the series' increasing bondage to
high-tech gimmicks in favor of intrigue and suspense featuring richly
nuanced characters and women who think the body's sexiest organ
is the brain." - Kirk Honeycutt, The Hollywood Reporter
"This Bond is haunted, not yet housebroken, still figuring
out the persona. In Casino Royale, the reset button has been pressed
in the manner of Batman Begins." - David Edelstein, New York
Magazine
"Daniel Craig isn't merely acceptable, but formidable. His
Bond is at least the equal of the best ones before him, and beats
all of them in sheer intensity." - Joe Morgenstern, The Wall
Street Journal
"One
aspect of the new Bond that works from first minute to last is the
most important one, and that is Craig's performance." - Kenneth
Turan, LA Times.
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