Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (films not included). Pages: 61. Chapters: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Everyone Says I Love You, Casino Royale, Don't Look Now, Moonraker, From Russia with Love, The Italian Job, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, The Tourist, Brideshead Revisited, Summertime, The Wings of the Dove, Pokemon Heroes, Othello, Just Married, Death in Venice, The Thief Lord, The Merchant of Venice, Casanova & Co., The Maori Merchant of Venice, Dangerous Beauty, Only You, Shark in Venice, The Honey Pot, A Little Romance, Italian for Beginners, Romance on the Orient Express, The Man Without Desire, The Venetian Affair. Excerpt: Casino Royale (English pronunciation: ) is the twenty-first film in the James Bond film series and the first to star Daniel Craig as fictional MI6 agent James Bond. It was directed by Martin Campbell and written by Neal Purvis, Robert Wade and Paul Haggis. Casino Royale is set at the beginning of Bond's career as Agent 007, just as he is earning his licence to kill. After preventing a terrorist attack at Miami International Airport, Bond falls for Vesper Lynd, the treasury employee assigned to provide the money he needs to bankrupt terrorist financier Le Chiffre by beating him in a high-stakes poker game. The story arc continues in the following Bond film, Quantum of Solace (2008). Casino Royale restarts the franchise, establishing a new timeline and narrative framework not meant to precede or succeed any previous Bond film, although elements of the plot do run into the subsequent film, Quantum of Solace. This allowed the film to show a less experienced and more vulnerable Bond and therefore for the first time in the series the character of Miss Moneypenny does not appear. Casting the film involved a widespread search for a new actor to portray James Bond, and significant controversy surrounded Craig when he was...