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《新鐵金剛智破皇家賭場》
Casino Royale
12月20日橫掃全球

《慕尼黑》丹尼爾基克飾伊恩法蘭明筆下的"占士邦"
《天國驕雄》依娃格蓮《王者無敵》麥斯米基辛《禍水》謝菲韋特
《新鐵金剛之不日殺機》茱狄丹芝

故事大綱：
《新鐵金剛智破皇家賭場》講述007的第一個任務將要深入罪惡之城，對付賭場大莊家兼國際恐怖份子的首領利志弗Le Chiffre（麥斯米基辛飾），並要將整個恐怖組織一舉殲滅。執行任務期間，占士邦須於賭枱上與利志弗Le Chiffre一較高下。政府派來秘密特務慧詩柏蓮Vesper Lynd（依娃格蓮飾）為占士邦準備賭注，並暗中監視他的一舉一動。兩人於執行任務期間以身犯險，危難中英雄與美人互生情愫，卻換來更致命的襲擊，兩人生命岌岌可危，占士邦所經歷的更直接改變了他的一生……

占士邦系列一直是全球最受歡迎的電影系列之一，來到第二十一集《新鐵金剛智破皇家賭場》，究竟有甚麼特別？如果你以為這只不過是繼第二十集後的另一部"續集"，那便大錯特錯了！把這部第二十一集的007當成 "續集"倒不如將它看作 "前傳"，因為 "Casino Royale"其實是鐵金剛之父伊恩法蘭明（Ian Fleming）第一部寫成的鐵金剛小說，內裡所描繪的特務007才是最原原本本的鐵金剛。電影公司透露，為了讓觀眾耳目一新，特別落重本炮製這部"前傳"，單是電影片頭便特別加插一段極具時代感的主題曲片段，務求為觀眾帶來全新兼先聲奪人的感覺。

從新認識占士邦

現年三十八歲的丹尼爾是第一位能在四十歲以下獲選擔任占士邦的影星，而電影公司更一口氣與丹尼爾簽下一紙三集的長約，相信丹尼爾必定有其過人之處，亦可見電影公司對他信心十足。而且丹尼爾亦非常受fans歡迎，早前於英國舉行御前首映時便有一大班丹尼爾的擁躉在場外等候，並大讚他有型，而影評人看過新一集的007後更公開盛讚丹尼爾演技出色，認為他是有史以來最出色的占士邦。美國多間博彩公司更透露，首映完畢後，丹尼爾能超越羅渣摩亞成為最長壽占士邦的賠率更急升至1：8倍。

有血有肉的鐵金剛
占士邦系列中，鐵金剛大部份時間都是瀟瀟灑灑，縱使經常身陷險境，但總能靠一兩件致命的高科技武器，滴血不沾便將壞人殺個片甲不留，觀眾可以看見占士邦血流披面的機會微乎其微。但在《新鐵金剛智破皇家賭場》中，丹尼爾基克將打破這個傳統，處處埋身肉搏，經常血流披面，只為了讓觀眾從新認識真真正正的占士邦。

雖然戲中有很多危險及高難度動作，但丹尼爾堅決全部親身上陣，丹尼爾表示：「我希望讓觀眾感受到占士邦的生命力和那種有血有肉的真實感，所以大部份時間我都選擇親身上陣。雖然對我來說是困難重重，但可以自己做的我全都做了。」而今集007的動作場面絕對有睇頭，戲中的第一場戲便講述鐵金剛因為要追捕一個炸彈狂徒而展開追逐戰，期間不單要穿梭於橫街窄巷並做出不同的高難度打鬥動作，更要徒手爬上在一個幾十層樓高的地盤棚架和吊臂，在上面赤手空拳與炸彈狂徒搏鬥！單是第一場戲已教觀眾驚心動魄。

丹尼爾對自己在戲中的表現亦信心十足：「我在電影開拍前特別接受一連串的特訓，觀眾將會在戲中看見我特訓的成果。我感覺到自己體內每處都充滿著優質的運動細胞。雖然工作人員都為我做足了安全措施，但受傷是必然的。我飾演的是占士邦，怎可能會不受傷？有傷痕才稱得上是真正的占士邦！」這亦充分表現出丹尼爾那種粗豪的性感，更演活了鐵金剛之父伊恩法蘭明（Ian Fleming）筆下的硬漢007。而曾為《終極天險》及《新鐵金剛之金眼睛》執導演筒的馬田甘寶則表示自己希望突破傳統，不像以往的邦片般只靠高科技，用很多特別的武器來輔助鐵金剛脫險，讓新占士邦更貼近人性。

另一個辛康納利
因為這次的鐵金剛與以前的很不同，所以兩位監製亦悉心選了當年由辛康納利主演的007系列《鐵金剛勇破間諜網》（From Russia With Love）中鐵金剛第一次遇上泰坦娜羅曼諾娃（Tatiana Romanova）的一場戲讓參與選角的演員去演。監製雲遜Wilson解釋：「這一幕既充滿戲劇性，亦有愛情和動作的元素，剛好是一個出色的占士邦應具備的所有條件。」早前美國影評率先看過新一齣《鐵》片後，《每日電訊報》的著名影評人Sinclair McKay更大讚：「丹尼爾在戲中的表現十分精彩，這是一個很好的開始，他（丹尼爾）令我想起辛康納利。」

事實上，兩名占士邦系列的資深監製米高雲選Michael G. Wilson和卡巴華寶高里Carbara Broccoli第一次看見丹尼爾便已對他讚不絕口：「他是英國新一代演員的最佳代表。我們為了選到最好的男主角，邀請了超過二百位出色的演員參與選角，但當我們第一次見到丹尼爾便知道他是我們最佳的選擇。他有一股攝人的魅力，而且他很性感。其實今次的007比以前的難演，但他證明了自己的能力。」而曾為《終極天險》及《新鐵金剛之金眼睛》執導演筒的馬田甘寶亦盛讚丹尼爾：「今集007是較為以性格主導的一集，所以我們需要一個像丹尼爾這樣的演員，他不但給人一種野性的感覺，而且很有幽默感和魅力，最重要是他的體型非常好，在眾多的動作場面上，他都表現出他是新占士邦的最佳人選。」

亦正亦邪的秘密特務
談到今集的007，的確與之前的很不同。丹尼爾說：「今集的占士邦是個正氣中帶點黑暗、性格比較沉鬱的角色，這是伊恩當初寫的鐵金剛。能夠成為新的鐵金剛，我感到很榮幸和興奮。當我知道自己獲選飾演新一代的占士邦，我簡直不敢相信。」丹尼爾更表示自己被這個「第一個007的故事」深深吸引著，「因為劇本在感情上的描寫既複雜亦細緻，與一般的占士邦片很不同，這是一個較感性的鐵金剛。我要演占士邦剛開始他007特務生涯的階段，起初他真的像一頭野獸，橫衝直撞，亦只喜歡獨來獨往，但戲中的經歷令他改變了。」

新一代性感型男
一談丹尼爾，兩位女主角依娃格蓮和卡特里娜慕蓮奴（Caterina Murino）便滔滔不絕。依娃大讚男主角有男人味：「看著他會好像被催眠了一樣，不期然地被他吸引了。他有紳士風度，而且強壯，卻有點不修邊幅，那種性格上未經雕琢的粗糙感既吸引亦危險。他真的很性感，最重要是他不自覺自己性感，對一個男人來說，這是很重要的。他的幽默感絕對為他加了不少分數。我和丹尼爾刷出了不少火花。」戲中飾演一位與占士邦有一夜情的怨婦的卡特里娜更回味：「丹尼爾的床上表現十分出色，我只恨那段床戲實在太短。」

非一般的邦女郎

導演和監製直言今次找邦女郎是最辛苦的一次，因為今集的邦女郎是占士邦第一個，亦是007系列中唯一一個占士邦愛上的女人，所以他們要找一個內外皆美之餘亦能給予人一種摸不透的神秘感的邦女郎，這樣才夠說服力和吸引力令一個鐵石心腸的占士邦「心軟」。而曾參演《天國驕雄》及《戲夢巴黎》（The Dreamers）的法籍索女依娃格蓮（Eva Green）便排眾成為新一任的邦女郎。

獨當一面不再做花瓶
其實占士邦系列中，大部份時間邦女郎都是扮演花瓶的，但今次戲中的邦女郎卻要獨當一面，因為在戲中，她和占士邦的發展是整個故事的骨幹，亦是塑造日後占士邦的性格其中一個關鍵元素。導演馬田甘寶說：「這無疑是伊恩法蘭明筆下占士邦系列中最出色的一個女角，所以我們在選角上特別謹慎。我們不希望『糟蹋』了占士邦唯一愛上的一個女人。見過依娃後，我們決定不再考慮其他人，她具備所有我們希望找到的特質，不但演技好，而且明艷照人，最重要是她有一種很誘人的神秘感，這正正是要演好戲中邦女郎慧絲柏的必備條件。依娃的表現更出乎我意料之外。她很努力去揣摩這個角色，很多東西並沒有寫在劇本內，結果她自己將角色擴展，讓角色變得更完美。」電影公司最近更宣佈依娃將會繼續擔綱飾演下一集邦片的女主角，令她繼1960年代女星Eunice Gayson後，成為第二位能夠有份參演兩集007的邦女郎，足見依娃在戲中的表現絕對令人滿意。

改變占士邦一生的女人
依娃自己亦非常喜歡這個角色，因為她知道自己要演的是伊恩法蘭明（Ian Fleming）筆下的第一個邦女郎，這個邦女郎將會影響占士邦的一生，她和占士邦的關係亦會為鐵金剛日後對身邊女人所做的一切提供一個合理的解釋。「這是我看過其中一個最好的劇本，它既有深度亦有很多不同且扣人心弦的轉捩點，裡面的愛情故事更深深感動我。我這個邦女郎是個頗複雜的人，她有很多秘密藏在心底，我想大概是這份神秘感吸引了占士邦吧。她更有點像古希臘女神Sphinx般有很多面性格：敏銳、機智、帶點刁蠻但同時亦很脆弱，很需要人保護。她和占士邦經常鬥嘴，但兩人卻在開玩笑中找到與對方的一點點共鳴。」

雖然依娃在戲中並不需要參與甚麼動作場面，但因為電影末段依娃飾演的邦女郎將會被困在一部升降機內，然後跌入河中，依娃被困於水底，所以她在電影開拍前便特地去找導師教她潛水和學習在水裡控制自己的呼吸。

撲克大賽Poker Game

在《新鐵金剛智破皇家賭場》中，占士邦為瓦解恐怖份子集團，要與恐怖份子的首腦兼賭場大莊家於賭枱上一決高下，他們的賭具就是啤牌。那麼在戲中這樣重要的poker game是怎樣玩的呢？

"Poker Game"的玩法變化多達數十種，戲中主角玩的叫Texas Hold'em（通常簡稱Holdem）。首先，莊家會向每位參與者派發兩張啤牌（downcards）作為自己的第一手牌（hold cards），然後各玩家可因應自己手持的牌面決定第一次下的賭注是多少。然後莊家會開出三張牌給自己，玩家可看看自己及莊家牌面，然後計算自己勝出的機會率，並決定第二輪的賭注有多少。第二次下注完畢後，莊家會再派兩張牌給自己，然後每次揭開一張牌；莊家每揭一張，玩家可再增加賭注或選擇棄權。莊家的五張牌（community cards）全部揭開後，仍未棄權的玩家須逐一將自己手持的兩張牌（hold cards）揭開，然後利用自己和/或莊家的牌（共七張）排出不同的組合。能排列出最大的組合一方為勝。（註：組合大小以「蛇、花、孚、啤、三條、四條、同花順」為基礎。）

占士邦小說

占士邦是由英國作家伊恩法蘭明（Ian Fleming）所創造的英國特務。占士邦的第一本小說 Casino Royale在1953年發行。伊恩法蘭明共寫了十四本占士邦小說，其中For Your Eyes Only和Octopussy, The Living Daylights and The Property of a Lady是短篇小說。法蘭明死後有好幾位作家繼續寫占士邦小說，直至今時今日共有超過四十本占士邦小說發行過。

年份		書名
1953		Casino Royale
1954		Live and Let Die
1955		Moonraker
1956		Diamonds Are Forever
1957		From Russia, with Love
1958		Doctor No
1959		Goldfinger
1960		For Your Eyes Only
1961		Thunderball
1962		The Spy Who Loved Me
1963		On Her Majesty's Secret Service
1964		You Only Live Twice
1965		The Man with the Golden Gun
1966		Octopussy, The Living Daylights and The Property of a Lady

占士邦小說與占士邦電影

鐵金剛電影系列的主角占士邦和電影本身起初是根據伊恩法蘭明的著作稍為改編而成，但後來只是引用小說的名稱，內容方面則任由編劇自由發揮，令邦片甚至出現較脫離現實的元素，例如鐵金剛勇破太空城。至今總共有十六齣占士邦電影的片名是來自伊恩的小說。From a View to a Kill是短篇小說For Your Eyes Only的第一個小說，後來被改成為「A View to a Kill」，亦即是《鐵金剛勇戰大狂魔》。

年份 英文名 片名主演

1962 Dr. No 鐵金剛勇破神秘島辛康納利

1963 From Russia with Love 鐵金剛勇破間諜網

1964 Goldfinger 鐵金剛大戰金手指

1965 Thunderball 鐵金剛勇戰魔鬼黨

1967 You Only Live Twice 鐵金剛勇破火箭嶺

1967 Casino Royale 鐵金剛橫掃皇家賭場彼德斯拉,大衛尼文

1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service 鐵金剛勇破雪山堡佐治拉辛比

1971 Diamonds are Forever 鐵金剛勇破鑽石黨辛康納利

1973 Live and Let Die 鐵金剛勇破黑魔黨羅渣摩亞

1974 The Man with the Golden Gun 鐵金剛大戰金槍客

1977 The Spy Who Loved Me 鐵金剛勇破海底城

1979 Moonraker 鐵金剛勇破太空城

1981 For Your Eyes Only 鐵金剛勇破海龍幫

1983 Never Say Never Again 鐵金剛勇奪巡航導彈辛康納利

1983 Octopussy 鐵金剛勇破爆炸黨羅渣摩亞

1985 A View to a Kill 鐵金剛勇戰大狂魔

1987 The Living Daylights 鐵金剛大戰特務飛龍鐵摩達頓

1989 Licence to Kill 鐵金剛勇戰殺人狂魔

1995 Goldeneye 新鐵金剛之金眼睛皮雅斯布士南

1997 Tomorrow Never Dies 新鐵金剛之明日帝國

1999 The World is Not Enough 新鐵金剛之黑日危機

2002 Die Another Day 新鐵金剛之不日殺機

2006 Casino Royale 新鐵金剛智破皇家賭場丹尼爾基克

鐵金剛電影系列主題曲

其實每一首鐵金剛的主題曲都非常動聽，而當中更有部份曾獲提名角逐奧斯卡金像獎。

片名歌名主唱

鐵金剛勇破神秘島 The James Bond Theme John Barry Orchestra

鐵金剛勇破間諜網 From Russia with Love Matt Munro

鐵金剛大戰金手指 Goldfinger Shirley Bassey

鐵金剛勇戰魔鬼黨 Thunderball Tom Jones

鐵金剛勇破火箭嶺 You Only Live Twice Nancy Sinatra

鐵金剛勇破雪山堡 On Her Majesty's Secret Service, We Have All the Time in the World John Barry Orchestra, Louis Armstrong

鐵金剛勇破鑽石黨 Diamonds are Forever Shirley Bassey

鐵金剛勇破黑魔黨 Live and Let Die Paul McCartnet and Wings

鐵金剛大戰金槍客 The Man with the Golden Gun Lulu

鐵金剛勇破海底城 Nobody Does It Better Carley Simon

鐵金剛勇破太空城 Moonraker Shirley Bassey

鐵金剛勇破海龍幫 For Your Eyes Only Sheena Easton

鐵金剛勇奪巡航導彈 Never Say Never Again Lani Hall

鐵金剛勇破爆炸黨 All Time High Ritta Coolidge

鐵金剛勇戰大狂魔 A View to a Kill Duran Duran

鐵金剛大戰特務飛龍 The Living Daylights A-Ha

鐵金剛勇戰殺人狂魔 Licence to Kill Gladys Knight

新鐵金剛之金眼睛 Goldeneye Tiner Turner

新鐵金剛之明日帝國 Tommorow Never Dies Sheryl Crow

新鐵金剛之黑日危機 The World is Not Enough Shirley Manson (Garbage)

新鐵金剛之不日殺機 Die Another Day Madonna

新鐵金剛智破皇家賭場 You Know My Name Chris Cornell

占士邦簡介
姓：邦 (Bond)
名：占士 (James)
國籍：英國
種族：蘇格蘭瑞士混血兒
職業：特務 / 退役海軍中校 / 環球貿易員工
特務編號：007 (Double-O Seven)

占士邦的職業

英國特務占士邦，編號007，工作於軍情六處 (MI-6，主管英國海外情報工作。為了掩飾身份，他們稱軍情六處為環球貿易(Universal Export))，有殺人執照(Licence to Kill)，合法殺人，是英國最佳特務之一。幕後指揮官是M。

占士邦的身世

007生於1922年，父親是英國蘇格蘭人Andrew Bond，母親是瑞士人Monique Delacroix。邦的父親是一家公司Vickers Armaments Firm的外交代表，所以邦自少在外國長大，學會了法德兩語。

邦的雙親皆在邦十一歲時在爬山中遇意外死亡。邦由阿姨Charmian Bond照顧直至12歲時入讀伊頓公學 (Eton)，但入讀兩個學期後因與一名褓姆有曖昧被趕出校，後入讀Fettes。邦亦在那時成了輕量拳擊及柔道好手。十九歲時，邦在他亡父的朋友協助下加入了英國海軍，升至中校，退役後被徵召入MI6。

丹尼爾基克 飾演 占士邦

丹尼爾於2003年為羅渣米素執導的《MY MOTHER》演出，飾演搭上女友母親的男主角，憑此片獲提名歐洲電影大獎「最佳男主角」。憑著精湛的演技，丹尼爾獲當時的導演羅渣米素盛讚他是一位兼具智慧外表及擁有演藝才華的人。

丹尼爾曾主演的作品包括與安袓蓮娜祖莉合演的《盜墓者羅拉:生命之匙、飾演保羅紐曼兒子的《末路驕陽》及與桂莉芙柏德露合演的《篇篇情意劫》。丹尼爾更憑《凶氣球》獲倫敦影評人電影獎「最佳英國男演員大獎」，並獲提名英國獨立電影大獎「最佳男主角」。最近參演過的作品則有《慕尼黑》。

依娃格蓮 飾演 慧絲柏

今年26歲的法國女星依娃格蓮出道於2001年，曾演出法國舞台劇的她憑《戲夢巴黎》裡大膽且出色的演出，有幸獲選中與當紅型男奧蘭多布魯(Orlando Bloon)拍攝荷里活電影《天國驕雄》(The Kingdom of Heaven) 而為人所熟識。依娃格蓮除精通英文及法文外，亦因為她的演戲才華和外表的那份神秘感而成功獲選中成為新一任邦女郎，是鐵金剛電影系列中第四位法國籍邦女郎。美國男性雜誌《Maxim》剛於今年六月選了她成為本年度「火辣百美」(Hot 100) 的第二十名。

卡特里娜 飾演 Solange

電影中扮演反派大佬妻子的另一個新任邦女郎、32歲意大利女星卡特里娜慕蓮奴（Caterina Murino），曾參加96年意大利小姐選舉並得到第四名，但她當時並沒有即時進軍演藝界，反於家鄉主修戲劇，演出話劇。直至2002年，她更頻頻亮相當地的電視台及演出不同規模的製作，在家鄉打響名堂。今次飾演其中一位新任的邦女郎，正式踏上國際舞台，得到美國等地的傳媒注目。

茱狄丹芝飾演M

曾經參演過四部占士邦電影（《新鐵金剛之金眼睛》、《新鐵金剛之明日帝國》、《新鐵金剛之黑日危機》及《新鐵金剛之不日殺機》）裡英國秘密特務組織MI6指揮的茱狄丹芝本身有相當豐富的舞台劇、電視劇及電影的演出經驗。茱狄丹芝獲獎無數，當中包括1998年憑《寫我深情》中飾演的伊利莎白皇后勇奪奧斯卡最佳女配角，而她亦曾榮獲奧斯卡及英國電影電視藝術學院獎提名超過五十次。

《新鐵金剛智破皇家賭場》演職員表

ALBERT R. BROCCOLI'S EON PRODUCTIONS製作
《慕尼黑》丹尼爾基克飾伊恩法蘭明筆下"占士邦"
"新鐵金剛智破皇家賭場"

主演：《天國驕雄》依娃格蓮
《王者無敵》麥斯米基辛
《禍水》謝菲韋特
《新鐵金剛之不日殺機》茱狄丹芝飾"M"
服裝：金像得主《哈里波特神秘的魔法石》蓮達希明
音樂：《新鐵金剛之不日殺機》大衛阿諾
剪接：《超人》系列史超活巴特,A.C.E.
攝影：《黑俠梭羅》費美曉薩BSC
美術：《鐵達尼號》金像得主彼得拉蒙
執行監製：《新鐵金剛之不日殺機》安東尼韋薏
《哈利波特阿茲卡班的逃犯》歌林麥竇加爾
編劇：《新鐵金剛之不日殺機》尼爾佩維斯《新鐵金剛之不日殺機》羅拔韋迪
《撞車》金像編劇保羅夏傑斯
監製：《新鐵金剛之不日殺機》米高韋遜
《新鐵金剛之不日殺機》巴巴拉布歌莉
導演：《終極天險》馬田甘寶
FEATURING："YOU KNOW MY NAME" 監製：《超時空寵愛》基斯哥尼爾
發行： Sony Pictures Releasing International

"It's not difficult to get a Double O number if you're prepared to kill people."

- James Bond, Casino Royale 1953.

"Three measures of Gordon's, one of vodka, half a measure of Kina Lillet, shake it over ice then add a thin slice of lemon peel."

- "The Vesper Martini" - James Bond, Casino Royale 2006.

CASINO ROYALE, the 21st James Bond adventure in the most successful franchise in film history, stars Daniel Craig in his debut as 007, and is based on Ian Fleming's first novel to feature the ultimate secret agent, which was published in 1953.

CASINO ROYALE traces the early career of James Bond. His first "007" mission leads him to Le Chiffre (Mads Mikkelsen), banker to the world's terrorists. In order to stop him, and bring down the terrorist network, Bond must beat Le Chiffre in a high-stakes poker game at Casino Royale. Bond is initially annoyed when a beautiful Treasury official, Vesper Lynd (Eva Green), is assigned to deliver his stake for the game and watch over the government's money. But, as Bond and Vesper survive a series of lethal attacks by Le Chiffre and his henchmen, a mutual attraction develops leading them both into further danger and events that will shape Bond's life forever.

Albert R. Broccoli's EON Productions presents Daniel Craig as Ian Fleming's James Bond 007 in CASINO ROYALE. With a screenplay by Neal Purvis & Robert Wade and OscarR winner Paul Haggis, the film was directed by Martin Campbell and produced by Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli. A United Kingdom - Czech Republic - German - USA Co-Production, CASINO ROYALE was produced under the combined banners of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures and Columbia Pictures with filming in Prague and Karlovy Vary in the Czech Republic, on New Providence and Paradise Island in The Bahamas. Filming also took place at Lake Como and Venice in Italy, before returning to the UK. Back in the UK, the production filmed at Dunsfold Airfield in Surrey, Eton College in Winsor, Buckinghamshire's Black Park and on the legendary 007 stage at Pinewood Studios.

British actor Daniel Craig is introduced in the role of James Bond in CASINO ROYALE, supported by a strong international cast. Dame Judi Dench returns as M, the Head of the British Secret Service. Vesper Lynd, the first woman with whom James Bond falls in love, is played by French actress Eva Green, and Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen takes the role of Le Chiffre, international money launderer and Bond's rival in the high stakes poker game at the heart of the film.

American actor Jeffrey Wright plays Felix Leiter, Bond's ally in the CIA, and distinguished Italian actor Giancarlo Giannini takes the role of Mathis, his MI6 contact. Caterina Murino, also Italian, plays Solange, the beautiful but unhappy wife of one of Le Chiffre's villainous associates, who succumbs to Bond's charms.

Featured in the film is the new Aston Martin DBS (in special finish "Casino Ice," which will not available for sale until 2007), alongside the Bond favorite Aston Martin DB5. And Bond reveals the recipe for his favorite martini, "The Vesper."

CASINO ROYALE has not yet been rated by the Motion Picture Association of America.

CASINO ROYALE will be released by Columbia Pictures on November 17, 2006.

Credits are not final and are subject to change.

ABOUT THE PRODUCTION

"If you don't get bruised playing Bond,

you're not doing it properly."

- Daniel Craig

With his starring role in CASINO ROYALE, Daniel Craig joins the elite group of actors who have donned the impeccably tailored tuxedo of quintessential superspy James Bond. Described by long-time Bond franchise producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli as "the definitive British actor of his generation," Craig says he was honored to be asked to play the iconic MI6 agent, but he was especially drawn to CASINO ROYALE because of the emotional complexity of the script and the way his character evolves throughout the course of the film.

"In this film James Bond is a darker character, which is how Ian Fleming originally wrote him," says the actor. "We start right at the beginning of Bond's career, when he has a lot of rough edges. He's a loner, and he doesn't like to get involved with people. As the movie goes on, though, he becomes more refined."

In conducting their exhaustive search for a new lead actor for the 21st installment of the phenomenally successful franchise, Broccoli and Wilson turned to a tried and true approach. "When we audition for the role of Bond, we ask actors to do the scene in From Russia with Love, where Bond meets Tatiana Romanova for the first time," says Wilson. "That scene has everything you want to know about a potential Bond - drama, romance and action."

Craig passed the test with flying colors, according to Broccoli: "As soon as we met him, Daniel was the obvious choice for James Bond. He is charismatic, versatile and sexy. The role is a big challenge, but he has proven to us that he is an incredible Bond."

Craig, whose previous screen credits include Munich, Road to Perdition and Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, was working in Baltimore when he got the news he had landed the coveted role. "I was on my own, so I went out alone to have a drink and celebrate. Of course, I couldn't very well start telling people in the bar 'I'm James Bond!' They probably would have thrown me out, or called the hospital to collect me."

As soon as the reality of the situation sank in, however, Craig says he was anxious to begin preparing for the role. Knowing the physical challenges he would face, the actor embarked on a rigorous fitness regime to prepare for the shoot. The effort paid off as soon as production began in Modrany Studio outside Prague. The first scene he shot was the pulse-pounding chase sequence in which Bond pursues would-be bomber Mollaka through the Nambutu Embassy.

"I wanted to do as much of the action work as I could, so that the audience can see it's me and it's real," says Craig. "I feel like I became a sportsman of sorts, and that meant acquiring injuries and carrying on, bashing through to the next level of pain. Although Gary Powell and his stunt team did fantastic work to make sure that everything was as safe as possible, if you don't get bruised playing Bond, you're not doing it properly."

"Daniel will be a revelation to the audience," predicts director Martin Campbell, who also directed Pierce Brosnan in his Bond debut, GoldenEye. "He combines toughness with charm and a sense of humor, and because this is a much more character driven story, his depth and gravitas are a perfect match for the role. At the same time, he's in great physical shape and proved himself to be excellent in the action scenes."

Craig repays the compliment, crediting Campbell with galvanizing the cast and crew and even more importantly, translating the electricity on the set to excitement on the big screen. "Martin fires everyone up. You obviously need that level of energy in the action sequences, but it's equally valuable in quieter, dramatic scenes like the poker tournament."

"Vesper is not the classic Bond girl,

wearing a bikini and firing guns."

- Eva Green

After an extensive search, the filmmakers offered French actress Eva Green the role of Vesper Lynd, the alluring and enigmatic beauty who steals the heart of the seemingly impermeable James Bond.

"The relationship between Vesper and Bond is the spine of the story, and we needed an actress who could hold her own against Bond," says Campbell. "There is no doubt that this is the best female role in all of Fleming's books, so we tested extensively to ensure we cast the most suitable actress. Eva has all the qualities we were after: she's a terrific actress, she's gorgeous and she has an air of mystery about her, which is essential for the role of Vesper. Eva worked incredibly hard to create this role and take it to places I hadn't read into the script. It's been a joy to see her work and expand the character."

The Parisian-born Green, who made her film debut in Bernardo Bertolucci's steamy 2003 drama The Dreamers, explains what attracted her to the role of Vesper, the first woman Bond falls for and by whom he ultimately feels betrayed: "It's one of the best scripts I've read in a long time. It's deep, with lots of twists and turns, and the love story moved me. Vesper is a complex person. She is full of secrets and I think that is why James Bond is attracted to her - because he can't really see through her. She is like a Sphinx. She has many layers - she's sharp, sassy, quick-witted, but also vulnerable. She and Bond spark off each other, they are always bantering and they understand each other on the surface."

"Vesper is not the classic iconic Bond girl, wearing a bikini, being sexy and firing guns," continues Green. "There is more to her than that. She is the first woman Ian Fleming wrote about and she has a great impact on Bond's life. She is the root of all the Bond women who follow and explains why he behaves the way he does with those women."

"Hypnotic and magnetic" are the words Green uses to describe her co-star Craig. "He's a gentleman and he's strong, and he's not mannered. That ruggedness is attractive, and probably quite dangerous. He is sexy and not self-conscious, which is very important for a man, and he has a sense of humor - another plus. I definitely feel there's chemistry between us on screen."

Green also shares the screen with famed Italian actor Giancarlo Giannini, who plays Mathis, a grizzled MI6 operative stationed in Montenegro. "Giancarlo is very crazy in a nice way, very charismatic," she observes. "He is relaxed about his work, and often had a wicked glint in his eyes that made it hard to keep a straight face during our scenes."

Although she was not involved in many of the film's elaborate action sequences, Green learned to scuba dive for her final scene, where she becomes trapped underwater in a fallen elevator cage inside a dilapidated Venetian palazzo. "I had to learn how to control my breathing under water," says Green. "In the beginning it was scary, although of course it is perfectly safe because there are so many people looking after you. Also, I'm nearsighted, so I couldn't really see what was going on. I rehearsed in clear water, but during the takes the water had to be murky, like the Grand Canal. I think they used broccoli to get the right color!"

Green is full of praise for producers Broccoli and Wilson's distinctive approach to moviemaking. "They are passionate about filmmaking and will do anything to make it work. I've never had such positive involvement from producers before. In the beginning they helped me enormously with the character. They made me feel as if I was part of this big family. Being surrounded by calm people keeps the pressure off, and I could just focus on the work at hand."

Green believes CASINO ROYALE's involving storyline and romance gives it the potential to attract moviegoers beyond the legion of die-hard 007 fans. "Of course it's an action movie and a thriller, but it is also a love story, and I think women will identify with Vesper and be moved by her predicament. In comparison to other Bond films, it's more gritty and realistic and based more on characters than action. This is a different James Bond - raw and sensitive - people will see him in a different light. You see his flaws and watch him become the Bond you think you know."

"He's ice cold."

- Mads Mikkelsen

Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen was thrilled to take on one of cinema's most despised (and prized) roles - the Bond villain. "I'm attracted to scripts where my character might have some secrets, so to be offered the role of Le Chiffre, 'the cipher,' a man with no real name, was perfect. Many actors say that playing the villain is more interesting than playing the good guy because he always has a twist in his character. But I think if you are playing the bad guy you try to show a good side to him sometimes, and if you are playing the good guy, you try to show a flaw in him, so it's not one-dimensional for the audience. My favorite Bond villain was Christopher Walken in A View to a Kill. He's got what it takes to be a good villain - there is something good and bad about him at the same time."

Mikkelsen purposely chose not to read the Ian Fleming novel before production began on CASINO ROYALE, preferring instead to develop his character exclusively from the screenplay and his extensive discussions with director Martin Campbell. He notes that Le Chiffre isn't the typical Bond movie bad guy: Rather than a megalomaniacal madman looking to take over the world, Le Chiffre is an amoral criminal mastermind with a thirst for hard currency.

"He's living in the contemporary world and trying to make as much money as possible, just like everybody else," says Mikkelsen. "He's smart and clever and doesn't boast about his successes. He rarely gets his own hand dirty, but he will if he has to. When we meet him he's rich and successful, but Bond is on his tail. And when the chips are down he doesn't show his emotions - he's ice cold."

In order to recoup his massive stock market losses, Le Chiffre organizes a poker game in Montenegro for international high rollers with a $10 million buy-in. The actors took poker lessons and rehearsed the games before filming began in order to keep the performances fresh as the hands were played and replayed over several days. Producer Wilson, a self-described poker "addict," supervised the rehearsals himself.

"Most of us could already play poker and, as well as rehearsing the tournament, we played poker for fun," says Mikkelson. "In fact we often ended up playing in the corridors of [Prague's] Barrandov Studios between scenes."

Playing cards on camera for three weeks apparently only whet the actors' appetite for the game. One night Mikkelsen and some of his fellow actors ventured out to a casino in Prague - where they promptly ran into Wilson.

Like most gamblers, Le Chiffre has a tell - an involuntary tic that reveals how he feels about his hand, explains Mikkelsen. "He has a scar on his eye, and the vein starts to pump when his heart rate increases, so he casually presses his finger against it to stop, but Bond notices. It has to be as subtle as possible, of course, or he wouldn't win many poker games. But Le Chiffre manages to turn this flaw to his advantage."

"I'm drunk with power."

- Judi Dench

OscarR winner Dame Judi Dench returns in her fifth film as M, James Bond's steely superior at MI6, the British Secret Service. "Judi is now so much a part of Bond, she is a national treasure," says Campbell.

Unlike in her previous roles in GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World is Not Enough and Die Another Day, in CASINO ROYALE we get a glimpse of M's home life when the brash young James Bond sneaks into her house to gain access to a secret database using her computer. "It's a riveting question," says Campbell, "what kind of home do you imagine M has? An old Georgian house in an elegant London square? No, this woman is full of surprises, so we've gone for a modern penthouse on the river in London's Canary Wharf. And it suits her!"

Dench agrees: "I love the flat that Peter Lamont has designed for M. I think it will be a shock for people who might have expected her to have a little house in Kensington or a pied-a-terre in Covent Garden. It's very minimalist, very tasteful. And of course the exact address is a secret, except to me, and now James Bond!"

Dench, who has been nominated for five Academy AwardsR and received a Best Supporting Actress OscarR for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth in Shakespeare in Love, also enjoyed the opportunity to take her character out of the confines of London's MI6 headquarters, shooting scenes at Barrandov Studios in Prague and on location in the Bahamas. She was also happy the film steered clear of any high-tech spy gizmos: "In this film I don't have to get entangled with any gadgets, which is just as well, as I can't even work an ironing board!"

In CASINO ROYALE, M has only recently awarded Bond 00 status and her relationship with him is still in its early stages. After she gets raked over the coals by Parliament over a bloody shootout in a foreign embassy, the senior intelligence officer makes it perfectly clear she expects Bond to stick to protocol going forward. Instead, he disregards his superior and heads off on his own to the Bahamas to investigate the origins of a bombing plot, further infuriating M.

"After that, she's reluctant to entrust him with the responsibility of playing in the poker game, but she seems to have no alternative," says Dench. "By the end of the film you understand that Bond has grown, and M knows she is onto a good thing."

Dench gives a hearty thumbs-up to the actor who has stepped into the role of her maverick subordinate. "Daniel has a wonderful presence. He's very handsome and strong, but at the same time, you wouldn't want to be on the wrong side of him. Those are all perfect traits to have as an actor. He seems to have relaxed into the role. I'm sure it gave him some anxiety, as it would any actor, but he doesn't show it on set. He has a great sense of humor and I always find a shared sense of humor is the first clue to working well with an actor. He also has a kind of self-deprecation about him that is very attractive."

The venerable stage and screen actress describes director Campbell, with whom she first worked on GoldenEye, as "a safe pair of hands." "I did my first ever Bond with Martin and it's good to come back to work with him again. He is very enthusiastic and he knows the conditions that actors like to work within. He knows that when you are doing repeated takes, you need to have an atmosphere of suspended calm and quiet, so you can get to the next take quickly while everything is still clear in your mind. There's nothing worse than an enormous break between takes, with people relaxing and wandering about. Martin is encouraging, gentle and excitable. And he knows the Bond scene very, very well."

"She has great sex. Then he's gone!"

- Caterina Murino

Italian actress Caterina Murino almost missed out on the opportunity to play Solange, the beautiful but unhappy wife of Le Chiffre's ruthless associate Alex Dimitrios. She was filming in Argentina when the first casting session took place in Paris, but she got a second chance when she was filming in Rome where another audition was being held. "The day before my appointment I fell from a horse while rehearsing and ended up in the hospital with a back injury. I went to the casting session filled with painkillers - I could hardly walk! And then they asked me if I could ride and I had to answer that I had just fallen off a horse!"

Despite the rocky start, Murino soon received the call at home in Sardinia offering her the role of Solange. "I was filming that day, dressed as a male soldier, with a false beard and a baby - the opposite of a Bond girl! Everyone was asking me 'Are you sure the call was for you?'"

Although CASINO ROYALE marks Murino's first film role in English, languages come naturally to the 29-year-old. "I learned French in four months to play Jean Reno's sister in a French film, and I also filmed in Spanish in Argentina. But while I've worked in English on a television drama, I had to practice my English - and my horseback riding - for a couple of months."

Murino describes Solange as a very modern woman with poor taste in men. "My husband is Dimitrios, Le Chiffre's right hand man. He is strong and rich and bad - a powerful combination, which attracts women. When she meets Bond, her husband has just been very rude to her in front of the whole casino. She decides to have some fun and get back at him, so she goes off with Bond. She doesn't know who he is. He's just a sexy guy who invites her for a drink. She has great sex, and then he's gone. But she pays a high price for her fun."

Describing Bond's near universal appeal to women, Murino says, "We always fall in love with the impossible man, the man you have for one night who never comes back. James is tough, dangerous, and smart. He travels the world, but he never gives his heart, only his body. You shouldn't fall in love with him. With Bond and Solange the energy is purely sexual - it's chemistry."

"Normally I don't find sex scenes very comfortable," the actress adds. "But Daniel and Martin Campbell made it very easy, and I felt very calm. Martin has a lot of energy, and a lot of authority. You can see that he likes to make action movies, but he's also great with intimate scenes."

Murino says she was also thrilled to be working with Judi Dench, although under unusual circumstances: "I had only one scene with Judi and by that time I was dead. Can I still say I acted with Judi Dench, even though I was only acting dead?"

"It is a great story and a great thriller."

- Ivana Milicevic

Portraying Le Chiffre's deadly female sidekick, Valenka, is Bosnian-born American Ivana Milicevic, whose numerous film and television credits include HBO's "Mind of the Married Man," Just Like Heaven and Love, Actually.

"I watched 007 when I was a kid, and I remember being terrified of Jaws in The Spy Who Loved Me," says Milicevic. "Suddenly to be an adult and cast as a villain in a Bond film is fantastic."

While most of Milicevic's considerable acting experience has been in dramas and comedies, she says she felt right at home on the set of CASINO ROYALE. "In a way, it's like working on the independent films I'm used to. We would discuss each scene, rehearse, discuss the details and all come up with ideas. I was impressed that this was the way Martin Campbell handled such a big movie. A Bond film seems like a family who know exactly how to bring out the best in each other. You feel comfortable that everyone is really focused on what they want, which is great."

"I hope all the Bond fans are going to love CASINO ROYALE," says Milicevic, "but I also hope people who have never seen a Bond film watch it as a great story and a great thriller."

"Life is made of obstacles and challenges."

- Sebastien Foucan

The astoundingly fleet and nimble bomb maker Mollaka, whom Bond pursues through the Nambutu Embassy, is played by Sebastien Foucan, the co-creator and one of the foremost practitioners in the art of Parkour. Also known as "free running," Parkour first came to the attention of the U.K. public in 2003, when the BBC broadcast a promo featuring a man running, vaulting and jumping over objects in his haste to get home to watch TV. It was later featured in the French futuristic police action thriller District 13, starring David Belle, Foucan's childhood friend and Parkour co-creator.

Based on the French word parcours, or obstacle, Parkour emphasizes the use of obstacles in the environment as props to help the runner move swiftly across the terrain. "It's not just about running and jumping," says Foucan. "It's about adapting yourself within your environment to overcome barriers to your physical progress. It's all about free flowing movement. My character's skill is that he can move swiftly to escape from Bond, so we tried to find a way to move fast and efficiently, rather than do stunt tricks."

Foucan, who often spends six or seven hours practicing Parkour on a special circuit in his home town in France, adapted easily to the rigors of shooting CASINO ROYALE. Still, he appreciated the dramatic tips he received from star Daniel Craig. "Daniel was very helpful, giving me advice about acting with cameras. Although he doesn't practice Parkour, he is very strong and finds it easy to run and chase. We have spent three months working on this sequence which will be on screen for maybe five minutes - but I hope it will be an intense five minutes, which people will enjoy."

Parkour takes its inspiration from acrobatics, dance, martial arts and popular art forms including cinema and comic books, but it also owes a debt to ancient Asian schools of thought, says Foucan. "Without philosophy, action has no meaning. Life is made of obstacles and challenges. To overcome them is to progress."

"A different Bond in every way."

- Martin Campbell

Martin Campbell, whose credits include action blockbusters The Mask of Zorro and The Legend of Zorro in addition to GoldenEye, says he was excited about taking the helm of CASINO ROYALE because of the transformation the secret agent character undergoes. "This is Bond's first 00 mission and he has a lot to learn. He makes mistakes early on and is reprimanded by M. He's thinking more with his heart than with his head, and things go wrong. But by the end of the movie he's becoming the man we know. We see Bond fall in love with Vesper, but he is also involved in some truly brutal violence. This is more realistic and more emotionally involving than previous films."

Although the Ian Fleming novel on which the film is based was first published in 1953, the film's setting is unmistakably contemporary. While the plot still centers around the villain Le Chiffre losing someone else's money in a seemingly foolproof scheme and arranging a casino tournament to try to recoup his losses, the film trades in Cold War era references, like Bond's nemesis SMERSH, for the more up-to-date evil of international terrorist groups.

Another update on the Fleming novel is the game Bond and Le Chiffre play at Casino Royale. In the book, the game is Chemin de Fer, a variation of Baccarat. For the film, the game was changed to Texas Hold 'em, in part because of the recent worldwide poker phenomenon, says Wilson, but also because poker is a game of bluff and strategy which offers more dramatic possibilities on screen.

The film's marathon card tournament turned out to be even harder to film than some of CASINO ROYALE'S spectacular action set pieces, says Campbell. "This is the most difficult thing I've ever had to shoot - ten players round a table, playing Texas Hold 'em, all looking at their cards and each other. Maintaining the tension and the continuity was a nightmare. In fact, as an exercise it would be a very good test for film students to try. Luckily, producer Michael G. Wilson is a genius at poker and very good at numbers. I couldn't have done it without him."

Wilson describes CASINO ROYALE as the film that the franchise's original producers Albert R. "Cubby" Broccoli and Harry Saltzman always wanted to make, but couldn't because the rights weren't available to them. "Finally, in 2000, we obtained the rights to make the movie, and went ahead with the script," says the producer. "It's Fleming's first 007 novel, so it's classic Bond."

Wilson, who is Albert Broccoli's stepson and who has produced and/or co-written 11 Bond films, has seen the 007 series evolve over the past four decades. "In the 1970s the films got bigger and more fantastic until we reached Moonraker in 1979, which was in outer space. Then we brought it back down to earth in 1981 in For Your Eyes Only. With Die Another Day in 2002 the technology began to overwhelm the story and the characters, so we've come back down to earth again, with a new, rawer Bond, who we see earn his 00 status and take on his first mission for MI6."

With CASINO ROYALE, says Wilson, the filmmakers wanted to take Bond "back to basics." "We needed to reenergize ourselves after Die Another Day and, although we knew we'd have a guaranteed winner if we stuck to the same path, we would have lost what we think is important for the series."

The producer praises director Campbell - with whom he previously collaborated on the 1995 hit GoldenEye - for his storytelling talents and his unrelenting commitment to excellence. "Martin has boundless energy and he pushes everyone else. He expects 100% from the cast and crew and he gives more than 100% himself. He starts work two hours before anyone else, pacing the set and preparing shot lists. The fact that he's already done a Bond film gives us all a shorthand method of working."

In addition to serving as producer and poker consultant on CASINO ROYALE, Wilson also plays the role of a corrupt Montenegrin chief of police whose tenure abruptly comes to an end. "I've made an appearance in every film since The Spy Who Loved Me in one form or another - sometimes only as a hand or a voice. It's become a tradition. I've been a priest and a scientist, but this is my first time as a policeman."

Although Bond has no spy gadgets in CASINO ROYALE, with the exception of his lifesaving, radio-controlled medical kit, he does get to put two Aston Martins through their paces. "We show how he acquired the DB5, winning it in a poker game from Dimitrios, and Aston built a new car for us, the DBS, which they made in a new color, Casino Ice. It's a real racing machine, which MI6 gives Bond to drive in Montenegro."

"CASINO ROYALE will be a classic Bond."

- Michael G. Wilson

"CASINO ROYALE was Fleming's first 007 novel, introducing James Bond as a tough but vulnerable hero in a style that is now classic Bond. It was the film that Cubby Broccoli and Harry Saltzman always wanted to make, but the rights were not available to them. Finally, in 2000, we obtained the rights to make the movie, and went ahead with the script."

Martin Campbell, who directed GoldenEye in 1995, returns to direct CASINO ROYALE. "Martin is a director who knows how to tell a story. We worked well together on GoldenEye so he knows Bond and our production team. It was a fantastic opportunity to get him back to work with the new Bond.

The next task for producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli was to cast the actor who would play James Bond in 007's twenty-first screen adventure. Michael G. Wilson explains the casting process. Says Barbara Broccoli, "As soon as we met him, Daniel Craig was the obvious choice for James Bond. He's an actor who defines his generation of British actors. He is charismatic, versatile and sexy. The role is a big challenge, but he has proven to us that he is an incredible Bond." Adds Michael G. Wilson, "In Daniel, we have a modern Bond, who has the authenticity we need to redefine this very complex character. Bond is a commander, ex-navy, who has just been given the extremely rare, double-O status - the authority to make kill decisions on his own. Daniel is skilled in articulating the conflicting emotions that Bond feels. He is a great actor totally committed to the role."

The producers cast French actress Eva Green as Vesper Lynd, the first woman Bond truly falls in love with. Says Michael G. Wilson, "Eva Green is fantastic. She is destined to be one of France's leading international actresses. Vesper is the most important woman in Bond's life, and we needed someone who had all the qualities of Vesper - beauty, strength, enigma and some sadness. She is Bond's equal. She is a good person who finds herself in an untenable situation."

Judi Dench returns as M. "She has made the role her own, so we couldn't imagine anyone else playing M," says Michael G. Wilson.

The production started off in Modrany and Barrandov Studios, in the Czech Republic, before moving on to the Bahamas. Says Wilson, "It's important that a Bond film has glamorous and exotic locations. We have a location in the Bahamas around the One & Only Club on Paradise Island where Bond tracks down Dimitrios. Our art department also transformed part of the Bahamas into the African Island of Madagascar, using a disused motel as a shanty town, and an abandoned hotel complex at Coral Harbor as a building site where Bond chases Mollaka, played by free runner Sebastien Foucan. In fact, the abandoned hotel is where we filmed the hotel rooms in Thunderball. It's now part of a military base. On The Spy Who Loved Me we used the same location as a camera platform and had models and workshops."

In the Fleming novel, the game played at Casino Royale is Chemin de Fer. For the film, the producers changed the game to Texas Hold 'em poker explains Michael G. Wilson, "Although Bond has traditionally played Chemin de Fer, that game is no longer popular and there are very few people who understand it, whereas poker is now recognized throughout the world, with poker tournaments on television and online gaming at an all-time high. Poker requires bluff and strategy, which has more dramatic possibilities on screen than 'Chimie.'"

Wilson enjoys playing poker himself and describes himself as "A recovering poker addict." In conjunction with the scriptwriters and Martin Campbell, he designed and supervised the games played at the Casino Royale tournament.

"The setting for the Casino Royale in the novel is Royale Les Eaux in France, but the production moved the location to an unnamed town in Montenegro. We needed somewhere that seemed to be out of the reach of the international banking authorities in order for Le Chiffre to feel safe enough to come out of hiding. We actually filmed all those scenes in Karlovy Vary, a spa town in the Czech Republic, which met all our requirements."

"Because of Daniel's more muscular physique,

the evening suit is a new shape."

- Lindy Hemming

Costume designer Lindy Hemming, a veteran of five previous James Bond adventures, collaborated with director Campbell and Craig to get just the right look for the newest 007.

In addition to addressing the director and star's desire for a more realistic, less stylized, wardrobe for Bond, Hemming says the clothes Craig wears throughout the course of the film reflect the arc of his character. "In the script, Bond has to go through many down and dirty undercover experiences. At the beginning of the film he's undercover, so he has to blend in with his background. The result is that he doesn't look like the traditional Bond at all. But as soon as he goes off to the Bahamas, we see him dress up more. He becomes more elegant, and, by the time he appears at the Casino, he's wearing his tuxedo, which is the established Bond look. As he becomes more comfortable with his 007 status, he dresses more stylishly."

Hemming also took heed of Craig's off-set style of dressing when designing Bond's costumes. "Daniel is interested in clothes, and he dresses really well. He wanted to go with the classic look, but keep it looking real rather than costumed. For example, for the evening suit, he was happy to go with Brioni, the Italian design company we've used on the last four films, because he knows and likes their style. But, because of Daniel's more muscular physique, the evening suit is a new shape, so he looks modern in it. It's fashionable to wear suits at the moment, so it doesn't look anachronistic, and Daniel likes the tailored look."

One outfit likely to attract attention is the short, form-fitting swimsuit Bond wears when he emerges from the sea outside Solange and Dimitrios' Bahamian home. The scene pays light-hearted homage to unforgettable moments from two previous Bond films, explains Hemming, "We've obviously done that scene slightly tongue-in-cheek, following the Ursula Andress and Halle Berry bikini scenes in Dr. No and Die Another Day. Daniel's wearing brief swimming trunks, which are very fashionable now, and are a much more European look than the baggy things that everyone has been wearing for ages. Not every man would suit these, but Daniel looks fantastic, so I think the audience will love it."

Of course, audiences are likely to pay at least as much attention to the attire gracing the film's female characters, and Lindy Hemming takes care to dress the actresses in appropriately glamorous style. "Ideally, I'd like to design all the dresses and have them made, but physically that's not possible. So I thought we needed to involve high fashion designers to get a buzz going about the clothes."

On dressing Vesper, the treasury official who becomes the first real love of Bond's life, Hemming comments, "Eva's a gift to dress. She's got a fantastic figure and she loves clothes. We decided to go a little bit retro, with nods to old movies, especially in her first two suits, which we wanted to remind people of Katharine Hepburn's look. One suit is Armani, and the other I designed. Italian designer Roberto Cavalli was very helpful. We looked at his collection, from which he gave us a lot of evening wear, and discussed what we wanted for her first dress at the Casino. Roberto made the purple evening dress for us in a hurry and I had to send an assistant to his factory to ensure it all went to plan and on time."

"And of course we had to have five of them," she continues, "as Vesper goes through quite a lot of physical stuff in the dress. In the script, that dress was bought for her by Bond and given to her when she gives him the tuxedo, so the art department has included a Cavalli boutique in the hotel set to tie it all together. Her other Casino dress, the black gown, was made for us by Versace. I designed the dresses she wears in Italy, at the sanatorium on Lake Como, and the red dress she wears when Bond follows her in Venice. We made sure that none of the extras wore any red, so that we could see her as Bond catches glimpses of her through the crowds in Venice. It's a small homage to Don't Look Now."

Bond's other conquest in the film is Solange, played by Italian actress Caterina Murino. Says Hemming, "We first see her in her bikini, a La Perla piece, in sea green, which reflects the sea in the Bahamas where she is riding along the shore. Caterina is dark and sultry and, in contrast to Vesper, she has a tough, sexy look. Her evening dress is from the collection of English designer Jenny Packham, who made it up in a peachy orange color for us. It has a laced back, which looks great against her naked skin as she makes love with Bond, still wearing the dress."

Ivana Milicevic who plays Le Chiffre's girlfriend Valenka, was outfitted almost entirely in fashions from Roberto Cavalli, according to Hemming. "In contrast to the other women, she's blonde and her character is edgy - a villain's girlfriend and possibly an assassin, with model looks and lots of confidence. She wears clothes which I describe as almost not clothes. She begins in a beautiful blue Versace swimsuit, underwater among the fish and the coral, and always wears clothes that are almost falling off her, in very vibrant colors, which emphasize her poise."

Breaking from the tradition of flamboyant Bond baddies such as Dr. No and Blofeld, Martin Campbell decreed that the Bond villains in CASINO ROYALE should not look like obvious villains. "No men carrying cats or wearing riding breeches," says Hemming. "Le Chiffre is a menacing man who lives in a twilight world. He's not flashy, he's secretive. He isn't a man who is much interested in clothes, but what he wears is expensive and luxurious. His Brioni evening suit is velvet, to emphasize richness."

The rest of the poker players are dressed to portray the idea that Casino Royale is a "new money" gambling palace, explains Hemming. "Brioni offered to make suits for the men around the casino table for the big game. Infante, the African dictator, is wearing an African version of a gambling evening suit, the Russian has a mink collar, and the Argentinian has a suit with real gold threads running through it. Even Verushka, who plays the German heiress, is dressed by Brioni, as they started a new woman's wear company this year."

Hemming says one of the biggest challenges for the wardrobe department was dressing hundreds of extras to look as though they are inhabiting a location far from where the shooting actually took place. For example, Gunther von Hagens' Body Worlds exhibition at the Miami Science Center was shot in a mausoleum in Prague in February. "The extras arrived in fur boots and big parkas. We had to strip them off and make them wear shorts, sandals and t-shirts to look like Miami tourists. They thought we were torturing them. Then we filmed a Madagascar shantytown in the Bahamas. Even though we bought all the clothes and shoes brand new, everything had to be broken down to look sun-bleached, dusty and dirty, and the extras had to look like inhabitants of an African island rather than the American-friendly island they live on. That's the magic of Bond films - transforming somewhere into somewhere else. We seem to do that every day."

"Bond literally brings the house

down 'round about him."

- Peter Lamont

Production designer Peter Lamont is no newcomer to the 007 franchise, having worked on 18 Bond films in various roles. For CASINO ROYALE he oversaw an art department spread over four countries - UK, Czech Republic, Italy and the Bahamas - and the building of over 40 sets. Not surprisingly, Lamont cites geography as his biggest logistical challenge. "Barrandov Studios in Prague was a good base of operations, with a great workforce and excellent sound stages, but we had to keep Martin Campbell up to date on all the other sets around the world."

The most difficult set to create, says Lamont, was the interior of the Venetian house, where Bond follows Vesper and Gettler, and "literally brings the house down round about him" in an attempt to rescue Vesper. While the interior of the house and the piazza leading to it were built on the 007 stage at Pinewood Studios, the exterior of the house was shot in Venice, on the Grand Canal opposite the Rialto Market. Although the Venetian authorities were persuaded to permit the production to sink compression pipes into the canal to simulate water spouting as the house sank, and to stop normal canal traffic for short intervals of time, their generosity didn't extend to allowing one of their grand palazzos to be destroyed and plunged into the canal. Instead, a model of the sinking house was constructed in the Paddock Tank at Pinewood.

"During the building process at Pinewood, the whole thing became more complicated, as the decision was taken that the house would not just sink vertically, but would need another axis to move the building from side to side as it sank. Chris Corbould and his special effects team built a fantastic rig for us."

Other sets were also combinations of interior sets built in one location and exterior locations in another country. The first scene shot, the Nambutu Embassy chase, was at a set in a studio in Modrany, outside Prague. "It was complicated - Bond moves through the Embassy pursuing and capturing Mollaka - running along corridors, into offices and jumping out of a window into the compound where he sets off a huge explosion. The beginning of that scene was shot later in The Bahamas, where he follows Mollaka to the Embassy from the building site."

Another multiple set was that of the Casino Royale itself. Situated in the script in Montenegro, the production scouted around Trieste and then along the coast of Croatia. "We could find the broad tree-lined boulevards we wanted, but no grand hotels exist there yet, and we needed imposing buildings for the Casino and Hotel Splendide exteriors," says Lamont. "Karlovy Vary was the first place we looked in the Czech Republic and that's where we ended up shooting the Hotel Splendide exterior and lobby, and the Casino Royale exterior and public gambling room, with the Salon Prive and hotel bedrooms being built at Barrandov Studios."

The production transformed an abandoned turn-of-the-century spa into the Casino Royale. "Lazne 1 had all its spa fittings ripped out years ago, and has been used by films before, but it was in a bad state. We worked with the local conservation people to restore the staircase and statues in the building. We told them what we wanted and paid for the work to be done, so we left the building in a much better state than it had been for years." The Grand Hotel Pupp, a local landmark, became the Hotel Splendide with changes of signs and the addition of a canopy and some luscious plants.

Filming in Venice offers up its own problems, not the least of which is the fact that the city's fabled canals dictate that everything has to be moved by boat or by foot. Fortunately, only one set had to be built in the ancient Italian city. "In St. Mark's Square (Piazza San Marco), we were allowed to use an empty building as the bank where Bond looks for Vesper. Of course, it is one of the busiest tourist destinations in the world, and as soon as we had completed the work and opened the door, we were inundated with tourists trying to change money. This also happened to us at Prague airport, where we were shooting interiors for Miami airport. We set up an exchange booth, and had lots of potential customers, some of whom couldn't understand why we had no currency for them."

A challenge of a different kind was to design the new prototype jet which Le Chiffre plans to have blown up so that he can make a fortune on the stock exchange. Lamont and his team visited airline manufacturers but says the production wasn't able to base it on an actual plane. "They keep their new models under wraps and probably wouldn't want to be associated with a storyline such as this," he says. "So we had to come up with an original design."

An old 747 was located at Dunsfold Aerodrome in Surrey, where the production filmed the Miami airport tarmac chase scenes with Bond and Carlos. "The plane had no engines, but it was in fairly good condition, and we could use the body of the 747 to save us the huge expense of building something of that bulk. I looked at many references of airplane construction and decided our Skyfleet should look like the B52, with pairs of tandem engines, and an altered cockpit profile. I don't know if my design would fly, but the B-52s managed!"

Asked to choose a favorite from the many sets and locations, Lamont cites Bond and Vesper's double suite at the Hotel Splendide, built in Barrandov Studios. "The challenge there was to match the rooms to the reality of the Grand Hotel Pupp in Karlovy Vary, which is a very classic hotel of its type, and to include two bathrooms for the scenes where Bond cleans himself up after the fight, and comforts Vesper in the shower."

"I spent eight hours a day in the water suit

and two hours under water."

- Chris Corbould

Special Effects and Miniature Effects Supervisor Chris Corbould, who made his 11th Bond outing with CASINO ROYALE, welcomed the news that the producers' intention was to return to a more realistic style of filmmaking and cut down on digital effects.

"I am passionate about the art of special effects and I will fight tooth and nail to do something for real," he says. "Obviously, if there are safety concerns or budget concerns then I can back off and admit defeat. CGI is a great tool, and can be very useful, especially if blended seamlessly with reality to give a good performance. But if an effect can be done for real, it's the best way to go."

Corbould's three biggest challenges on the film were each totally different and took place in vastly different locations: the sinking Venetian house, with scenes located in Venice on the Grand Canal and in Pinewood in the Paddock Tank and the 007 Stage; the Miami International Airport tarmac chase sequence, where Bond is pursuing a terrorist intent on blowing up a new prototype plane; and Bond giving chase to Mollaka at a building site in Madagascar.

First on the schedule were the scenes on the Madagascar building site, shot on location in the Bahamas on the site of a derelict hotel, which the art department had dressed as a construction site. In the scene, Bond gets into an 18-ton digger and drives at about 35 miles-per-hour towards the building. He hits the side of a truck, destroys a hut, and then slams into the concrete plinth which Mollaka is running on, the backhoe's bucket chewing into the concrete.

"We built a model and put forward two or three ways that the digger could conceivably take out the concrete, including taking out the pillar underneath. Martin Campbell preferred the direct way, with the bucket straight into the concrete. We did a couple of tests, and during the take it was even better than I expected. The concrete curled round the bucket and it came out like a wave."

At Dunsfold Aerodrome in Surrey, first and second units spent a total of ten weeks filming the sequence where Bond pursues a second terrorist through a Miami airport building and onto the tarmac. "Bond is chasing Carlos, who is driving a petrol tanker across Miami airfield during rush hour, with plenty of traffic on the ground," explains Corbould. "Bond leaps onto the tanker and, as Carlos tries to shake him off, crashes into anything in his way - wrecking bendy buses, police cars and baggage trolleys - it's carnage! I've had experience with tankers before in License to Kill, and they are beasts to work with once you have all that tonnage hurling around. And obviously we wanted to strive to do more spectacular things than last time, so we souped up the tankers to get some high speed collisions."

Corbould describes the massive set of the sinking Venetian house at the action climax of CASINO ROYALE the biggest rig he's ever built on a Bond film or any other. The scene involves Bond following Vesper and Gettler into a Venetian house undergoing renovation, which is supported by inflatable balloons. As he pursues them, the balloons are punctured by gunshots and begin to deflate, causing the walls to collapse. Eventually, the whole building subsides into the Grand Canal.

Working in the tank of the 007 stage at Pinewood, the production built a Venetian piazza, and the interior of the three-story dilapidated house. "The rig was massive - 90 tons, marrying together electronics and hydraulics. I was anxious to get really fast movement, to sell the fact that the house is sinking. The hydraulic valves were controlled by computer because there was so much movement in the system - it moved up and down and tilted through two axes. It would have been easy to bottom out on the tank or hit the roof, so we needed to have a lot of safety features."

At the same time, the rig could be immersed in 19 feet of water, some of which spewed upwards, so Corbould ended up spending a lot of time in a wet suit. "I reckon I spent around eight hours a day in the water on that set, of which around two were spent under the water, just fixing problems. We had huge banks of compressors outside the tanks, pushing water up as the house falls down, so all of that had to be kept in working order. As shooting progressed, and the house sank, debris and dust started to fall into the water, so the visibility decreased and we ended up feeling our way around."

The effects team also created an exterior model, built to one-third scale, to shoot the building collapsing into the Venetian canal. The same computer system controlled the model's hydraulics so Corbould and his associates could exactly replicate the motion of the interior set.

"There was definitely a learning curve," recalls Corbould. "It was the biggest rig the crew and I have ever put together, and a complicated set as well. I remember when we started on the film and they said, 'There will be no gadgets or gizmos,' and then they threw this one at us. But, in the end, I think the audience likes to see someone take a risk. Rather than watch what they know is a blue screen, they appreciate the feat of bravery and the effort that goes into the real thing. I think we are heading for a revival of special effects over visual effects."

LOCATIONS

THE BAHAMAS:

Bond arrives at Paradise Island, Bahamas by seaplane, and later drives along a coastal road to the real life One & Only Ocean Club resort where he eventually meets Dimitrios and his beautiful wife Solange. The Albany Estate, on the West Coast of New Providence Island served as Dimitrios' beachfront mansion, where Bond emerges from the sea to watch Solange leading her horse along the sand. An abandoned motel and its grounds at Coral Harbor on New Providence Island, stood in for the shanty town on the African island Madagascar where Bond watches Mollaka during the snake and mongoose fight. A derelict hotel in the same area was utilized as the construction site where Bond pursues Mollaka.

PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC:

Many of the interiors - including the Casino Royale Salon Prive, the compound of the Nambutu Embassy, the interior of Le Chiffre's yacht and the interior of the sanatorium where Bond recuperates - were filmed in Prague studios at Barrandov and Modrany.

The city itself is seen in the pre-title sequence when Dryden arrives at Danube House, a new office building on the banks of the Vltava, prior to his confrontation with Bond. Other Prague locations include the hilltop Vitkov Monument, a marble mausoleum, which was used as the interior of the Miami Body Worlds exhibition. Prague airport stood in for the Miami International Airport for the scenes in which Bond follows Carlos through the terminal and onto the tarmac.

The 800-year-old library of the Strahov Monastery was used as the House of Commons interior, and the Neo-Renaissance National Museum in Wenceslas Square was transformed into the reception and stairways of the Grand Venetian Hotel, where Bond and Vesper enjoy a romantic break after their ordeal.

KARLOVY VARY, CZECH REPUBLIC:

The spa town of Karlovy Vary, where visitors have taken to the restorative waters since the 14th century, was used as the Montenegrin town where the Casino Royale is situated. The world-famous Grand Hotel Pupp was transformed into the Hotel Splendide, where Bond and Vesper stay during the poker tournament. The Lazne, an imposing though disused, turn- of-the-century spa, stood in for the entrance and public room of the Casino Royale. In the same area of the Czech Republic, the production shot Bond and Vesper arriving in the Aston Martin DBS to meet Mathis in the picturesque town square of Loket. A hospital interior in nearby Plana served as the scene of Bond's emergency care following his torture by Le Chiffre.

LAKE COMO, ITALY:

Villa La Gaeta, a beautiful private residence on the banks of the Lake, was used for the scene in which Bond confronts Mr. White at his home. The grounds of the spectacular Villa del Balbianello, on the Western Shore of Lake Como, became the sanatorium where Bond recuperates from his ordeal at the hands of Le Chiffre.

VENICE, ITALY:

The production was able to shoot on many of the streets and alleyways of Venice, including the world famous St. Marks Square. Special permission was granted to allow Bond and Vesper's yacht (the Spirit 54) to sail along the Grand Canal between the Accademia and Rialto bridges, the first time a yacht has sailed the Grand Canal for many years. The collapsing house, where Bond pursues Vesper and her kidnapper, was situated opposite the vegetable market by the Rialto, and Bond moors the yacht outside the luxurious Cipriani Hotel on Guidecca.

UK LOCATIONS:

Dunsfold Aerodrome, near Guildford in Surrey, was the site of the majority of the exterior Miami International Airport runway scenes. This is the location where Alexander Witt and the second-unit filmed many of the spectacular action set pieces in which Bond thwarts the terrorist's attempt to blow up a prototype passenger jet.

Black Park was used to film the rebel camp in Uganda where Mr. White introduces Le Chiffre to Steven Obanno (much to the bemusement of the many dog walkers who regularly frequent the National Park near Pinewood Studios.) A playing field at Eton College was transformed into a cricket ground seen for the pre-title sequence.

Pinewood Studios' 007 Stage was home to the spectacular engineering feat that was the interior of the sinking house in Venice, where the action climactic sequences, including the bloody confrontation between with Bond and Gettler and his henchmen, were filmed. In addition, a full scale Venetian piazza was built for the conclusion of the scene, when Bond tries to rescue Vesper. Other Pinewood stages were used for model units and green screen shots.

The Cast

DANIEL CRAIG - JAMES BOND

Daniel Craig makes his first appearance as 007 agent James Bond of British Secret Service MI6 in CASINO ROYALE, the 21st film in the series, produced by Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, and directed by Martin Campbell.

Craig was born in Chester and brought up in Liverpool, leaving there to join the National Youth Theatre in London at the age of seventeen. He continued his training at the prestigious London Guildhall School of Music and Drama, graduating in 1991.

He made his film debut in 1992 in the South African boxing drama The Power of One, but came to the attention of critics and casting directors in the much lauded 1996 television drama serial "Our Friends in the North," playing the role of Geordie Peacock.

In 1998, Craig played the role of George Dyer, painter Francis Bacon's working-class boyfriend in John Maybury's powerful biopic Love is the Devil. In 2000, he was recognized as one of European Films' "Shooting Stars." This was followed by roles in the Hollywood blockbuster Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, in which he played Lara Croft's boyfriend, the ensemble black comedy Hotel Splendide and The Trench written and directed by acclaimed author William Boyd.

In 2002, Craig starred in Sam Mendes' film, Road to Perdition, receiving critical acclaim for his portrayal of Connor Rooney, the troubled son of crime boss John Rooney, played by Paul Newman. The following year he starred in The Mother, a powerful drama directed by Roger Michell in which he played a young man who has an affair with a 60-year-old woman. This was followed by the role of Ted Hughes, starring opposite Gwyneth Paltrow, in Sylvia, the story of poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath.

In 2004, Craig took leading roles in Enduring Love directed by Roger Michell and adapted from Ian McEwan's novel, and Layer Cake, Matthew Vaughn's successful directorial debut about the contemporary criminal drug scene.

A role in John Maybury's thriller The Jacket, starring alongside Adrien Brody and Keira Knightley, was followed by the lead in the television adaptation of Robert Harris' best selling novel "Archangel" and a leading role in Steven Spielberg's OscarR-nominated Munich. Craig played a South African mercenary, part of a team hand-picked by the Mossad to eliminate the terrorists whose attack at the 1972 Olympic Village resulted in the death of 11 Israeli athletes.

Recent film work includes Infamous, in which he played Perry Smith, opposite Toby Jones as Truman Capote (writer of the best-selling novel In Cold Blood based on the murders committed by Smith and Dick Hickock) and The Visiting a horror thriller directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel, in which Craig stars opposite Nicole Kidman.

Alongside his film work, Craig is acknowledged as a highly accomplished stage actor. His credits include leading roles in "Hurlyburly" with the Peter Hall Company at the Old Vic, "Angels in America" at the National Theatre and, in 2002, he was nominated for a London Evening Standard Award for Best Actor for his performance in "A Number," in which he played three roles and appeared opposite Michael Gambon.

EVA GREEN - VESPER LYND

French actress Eva Green is Vesper Lynd, sent by the Treasury to supervise James Bond's access to the millions of dollars that are his stake in the poker game with Le Chiffre.

Described by OscarR-winning director Bernardo Bertolucci as "so beautiful it's indecent", Green made her film debut in Bertolucci's critically acclaimed The Dreamers, a triangular love story set against the Paris riots of 1968 starring opposite Michael Pitt and Louis Garrel.

Born in Paris, Green studied at the St. Paul Drama School. This was followed by a course at the London Weber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art.

She began her acting career on stage, appearing in 2001 in two plays; "Turceret" directed by Gerard Descartes and "Jalousie En Trois Fax" directed by Didier Long. The latter was highly acclaimed and earned her a nomination for Les Molieres, France's most prestigious theatre award, in the category of Best Female Newcomer.

In 2003, she starred alongside Kristen Scott Thomas and Romain Duris in Jean-Paul Salome's French language film Arsene Lupin and, in 2005, she made her Hollywood film debut as the female lead in Ridley's Scott's crusade epic Kingdom of Heaven with Orlando Bloom and Liam Neeson.

MADS MIKKELSEN - LE CHIFFRE

Mads Mikkelsen is Le Chiffre, the Cipher, international banker and money launderer to terrorist organizations, and James Bond's opponent in the most important game of poker either of them will ever play.

The Copenhagen-born actor is the top male star in his native Denmark and is acclaimed throughout Scandinavia. As a child he trained as a gymnast and then became a professional dancer before studying drama at the Arhus Theatre School. In Denmark, he became famous overnight, as the star of the police series "Unit 1," which won an International Emmy as Best Drama Series.

Among his many and varied film roles, he is best know for his starring role in Susanne Bier's Open Hearts for which he won a Zulu Award and was nominated for Best Actor for the Danish Academy's Robert Award and the Danish Film Critics' Bodil Award in 2003. Other leading roles include I Am Dina opposite Gerard Depardieu, Shake it All About directed by Hella Joof, Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself directed by Lone Scherfig and two comedies, Flickering Lights and The Green Butchers, both of which were directed by Anders Thomas Jensen. The latter garnered Mikkelsen a nomination for Robert and Bodil Awards as Best Actor in 2005.

Mikkelsen made his Hollywood debut opposite Clive Owen and Keira Knightley in King Arthur directed by Antoine Fuqua. As Tristan, he played the understated hawk-loving Knight of the Round Table.

In Adams Apples, again directed by Anders Thomas Jensen, Mikkelsen starred as a delusional priest, a performance which has won him a Best Actor Zulu Award. The film was the Danish selection as Best Foreign Film in the 2006 Academy AwardsR and premiered at the Toronto Film Festival. Mikkelsen recently starred in Susann Bier's new film After the Wedding and will next be seen in the Swedish thriller Exit directed by Peter Lindmark.

JEFFREY WRIGHT - FELIX LEITER

Jeffrey Wright plays Felix Leiter, a CIA agent who offers to help Bond buy back into the game.

Wright won international acclaim for his haunting performance in the title role of Basquiat, Julian Schnabel's film about the unknown street artist who took the New York art world by storm, but ultimately paid the price of fame with his life.

In 1994, he won the Tony Award for his performance in the stage version of "Angels in America: Perestroika" and, in 2003, won an Emmy and a Golden Globe for his supporting role in the TV mini-series of "Angels in America."

For his performance as Martin Luther King in the television biopic "Boycott," he won the American Film Institute Actor of the Year Award, and on stage he recently received a Tony Award nomination in the critically acclaimed "Top Dog, Underdog."

Recent film roles include the Academy AwardR winner Syriana directed by Stephen Gaghan, Jim Jarmusch's Broken Flowers and Jonathan Demme's The Manchurian Candidate. Earlier this year he starred in M. Night Shyamalan's Lady in the Water and will next be seen in The Visiting for director Oliver Hirschbiegel, in which he stars opposite Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig.

JUDI DENCH - M

Judi Dench is M, Bond's boss and the Head of MI6, the British Secret Service.

Judi Dench reprises her role as M, for the fifth time in CASIINO ROYALE, having appeared in GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World Is Not Enough and Die Another Day.

In a career spanning more than 40 years on stage, screen and television, Judi Dench has won numerous awards, beginning with the BAFTA Most Promising Newcomer (1965), and more recently, including the Academy AwardR for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Queen Elizabeth in Shakespeare in Love (1998). In addition she has received Academy AwardR nominations for Mrs. Brown (1997), Chocolat (2000), and Iris (2001). In 2005, she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and an Academy AwardR for her performance in the title role of Mrs. Henderson Presents. She has been nominated for no less than 12 BAFTA Awards, winning nine, and has more than 50 nominations and wins for other awards in the U.S. and UK for her work on screen.

Her recent stage performances include "Amy's View" in London and on Broadway, "All's Well That Ends Well" for The Royal Shakespeare Company, and, most recently, Noel Coward's "Hay Fever" in the West End directed by Peter Hall.

Other recent film credits include Tea with Mussolini, The Importance of Being Earnest and Pride & Prejudice. She recently appeared alongside Dame Maggie Smith in Charles Dance's well-received directorial debut Ladies in Lavender, and in the title role of Stephen Frears' Mrs. Henderson Presents, starring alongside Bob Hoskins, Will Young and Kelly Reilly. She will next be seen in Notes on a Scandal with Cate Blanchett, which was directed by Richard Eyre.

In 1970, Judi Dench was awarded the Order of the British Empire, and in 1988 became a Dame of the British Empire. In the 2005 Queen's Birthday Honors, Judi was made a Companion of Honor. She was recently awarded the prestigious BAFTA Fellowship, the British entertainment industry's highest accolade.

GIANCARLO GIANNINI - MATHIS

Since his screen debut in 1965 in Fango Sulla Metropoli, Giancarlo Giannini has starred in over 100 international film productions, working with acclaimed directors including Luchino Visconti (The Innocent), Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Lili Marleen), Lina Wertmuller (Love and Anarchy, The Seduction of Mimi, Swept Away, Seven Beauties), Francis Ford Coppola (New York Stories), Ridley Scott (Hannibal) and Tony Scott (Man on Fire).

In 1977, he was nominated for an OscarR for his role in Seven Beauties. Other awards include five David Awards (Italian Oscars) for Ti Voglio Bene Eugenio in 2002, Celluloide in 1996, Come Due Coccodrilli in 1994, Mi Manda Picone oin 1984, Mimi Metallurgico Ferito Nell'onore in 1972, four Silver Ribbon Awards from the Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists for Hannibal in 2001, La Cena 1998 and Mimi Metallurgico Ferito Nell'onore 1972, Best Actor at Cannes Film Festival in 1973 for Love & Anarchy, and Best Actor at San Sebastian Film Festival in 1973 for Sono Stato Io! His talent has also been acknowledged by the Los Angeles Italian Film Awards, where he was honored with the 1999 Outstanding Achievement Film Award and, in 2002, the Milan Film Festival gave him a Lifetime Achievement Award.

Giannini was recently seen in Tirante el Blanco directed by Vicente Aranda, and will soon appear in The Gems Merchant directed by Renzo Martinelli.

CATERINA MURINO - SOLANGE

Caterina Murino plays Solange, the beautiful but discontented wife of Dimitrios, one of Le Chiffre's associates.

Born in Sardinia, Murino is known to French audiences for her leading roles in Patrice Leconte's comedy Les Bronzes 3: amis pour la vie, the crime caper L'Amour aux Trousses directed by Philippe de Chauveron and the comedy L'Enquete Corse, co-starring Jean Reno and directed by Alain Berberian.

Caterina began her acting career in commercials and studied at the acclaimed School of Cinema and Theatre, instructed by acclaimed actress Francesca de Sapio. She made her stage debut in a production of Agatha Christie's "And Then There Were None" and appeared in several other Italian language plays.

Her cinema debut, in 2001, was the international production of Nowhere by Chilean writer Luis Sepulveda and starring Harvey Keitel.

European television credits include "Des Jours et Des Nuits" directed by Thierry Chabert, "Orgoglio" directed by Giorgio Serafini and "In Der Mitte Deines Lebens" directed by Bernd Fischerauer. In 2005, she starred in the Spanish/Argentinean television drama "Vientos de Agua" directed by Juan Jose Campanella, and the Italian film Eleonora D'Arborea for director Claver Salizzato.

SIMON ABKARIAN - DIMITRIOS

Simon Abkarian plays Dimitrios, an underworld associate of Le Chiffre, who is based in the Bahamas. When he flies to Miami to undertake a mission for Le Chiffre, he is followed by James Bond.

Abkarian, based in Paris, was a member of the Theatre du Soleil from 1985 - 1993, and winner of a Moliere Award for his performance in "Une Bete Sur La Lune" directed by Irina Brook. In summer 2006, he directed a production of Shakespeare's "Love's Labour's Lost" for Tim Robbins' theatre group, The Actor's Gang, in L.A.

While filming CASINO ROYALE, he was also working on the French thriller The Snake directed by Eric Barbier and co-starring Clovis Cornillac and Yvan Attal.

For almost 20 years, Abkarian has been working in the European film industry, appearing in a wide range of films. Recent diverse roles include playing the villain in Not For or Against directed by Cedric Klapisch, the romantic lead opposite Joan Allen in Sally Potter's Yes and as Mehdi Ben Barka in the recent French thriller I Saw Ben Barka Killed, about the abduction and murder of the charismatic Moroccan opposition leader. His performance in Prendre Femme directed by Ronit Elkabetz, gained him the Best Actor Prize at the Thessaloniki Film Festival and a Special Jury Accolade in the Nantes Festival of Three Continents. The film won the Critics Prize and the Public Prize at Venice Film Festival in 2004.

Recently, Abkarian had a role in Robert Guediguian's Le Voyage en Armenie and will next appear in Trivial, directed by Sophie Marceau.

JESPER CHRISTENSEN - MR. WHITE

One of Scandinavia's leading actors, Jesper Christensen has won four Bodil Awards, most recently for his work in 2005's Drabet (Manslaughter) directed by Per Fly, and four Robert Awards, including one for Baenken (The Bench), also directed by Fly, in 2000.

His international career includes a starring role in Sydney Pollack's The Interpreter opposite Nicole Kidman and Sean Penn and a lead role in the U.S. TV series "Revelations," which starred Natascha McElhone and Bill Pullman.

Christensen began working in film in Denmark in 1976, and has since appeared regularly in a wide variety of Scandinavian and international films and television productions.

IVANA MILICEVIC - VALENKA

Ivana Milicevic plays Valenka, the cool and glamorous girlfriend of Le Chiffre.

Born in Sarajevo, Ivana's family settled in Michigan when she was five years old. After leaving school, she combined an international modeling career with stand-up comedy in order to break into acting. She soon found an agent and landed supporting roles in the hit comedy Jerry Maguire starring Tom Cruise, Cuba Gooding, Jr. and Renee Zellweger and Enemy of the State with Will Smith and Gene Hackman. This was followed by Head Over Heels opposite Freddie Prinze, Jr., and Richard Curtis' ensemble comedy Love Actually.

Best known to American television audiences for her starring role in the HBO series "The Mind of the Married Man," she has also made numerous television appearances, including guest starring roles, in "Felicity," "Friends," "Just Shoot Me!" and "Seinfeld."

Milicevic's most recent film roles are in the romantic comedy Just Like Heaven alongside Reese Witherspoon and Mark Ruffalo and Running Scared with Paul Walker.

TOBIAS MENZIES - VILLIERS

Tobias Menzies is best known to international audiences for his starring role as Brutus, Julius Caesar's assassin in the HBO/ BBC epic series "Rome." Menzies began his acting career in some of UK television's most popular series including "Foyle's War" and "Casualty." He recently appeared in the controversial drama "A Very Social Secretary," directed by Jon Jones, which launched Channel 4's More4.

On stage, his credits include Alan Bennett's "The History Boys," directed at the Royal National Theatre by Nicholas Hyntner, the title role in "Hamlet" directed by Rupert Goold and Michael Blakemore's West End production of "Three Sisters," for which he was nominated for the Ian Charleson Award.

SEBASTIEN FOUCAN - MOLLAKA

Sebastien Foucan plays Mollaka, a known terrorist, pursued by Bond in Madagascar.

Foucan developed the discipline Parkour (also known as Free Running) with his friend David Belle, to combat negative energy. He has created and given names to many of the trademark Parkour moves, now used throughout the movement, which is becoming increasingly well known and respected as an extreme sport worldwide. However, for Foucan, Parkour is not a sport; it is primarily an art form.

Foucan became known to a wide audience when the documentaries "Jump London" and "Jump Britain" began to be aired around the world, and he is now regarded as the ambassador for the Free Running movement. In late 2006, Discovery Channel will broadcast the French segment of their international series "HD Atlas," which is entirely devoted to Parkour, with commentary by Foucan.

He has appeared in numerous television commercials including Nike and Toyota, as well as in Madonna's video for her hit single "Confessions on the Dancefloor." He was then invited to accompany her on her 2006 international stage tour "Confessions."

Foucan's philosophy is "No violence, no competition, no groups, no chiefs."

ADE - INFANTE

Ade made his screen debut in Snatch (2000), Guy Ritchie's follow-up to the hugely successful Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. His screen presence and comic timing brought him to the attention of audiences and filmmakers and, although he had no formal training, he has since been in demand on screen and television.

A Londoner who has worked in marketing, publishing and property development, Ade appeared with Samuel L. Jackson in The 51st State, and recently appeared on UK television as a guest star in the popular series "Keen Eddie."

URBANO BARBERINI - TOMELLI

Urbano Barberini is renowned in Italy as a star of stage, screen and television, and has worked in all three media since the 1980s. He also works in English and French languages, both of which he speaks fluently.

In 2004, he starred in John Irvin's mystery drama Laughing Water (Mine-Ha-Ha) and Susanna Tamaro's Nel Mio Amore, and appeared on stage in Rome in Goldoni's "Il Giuocatore."

Other notable film roles include Dario Argento's Terror at the Opera (1987), Signora directed by Franco Laudadio and Franco Zeffirelli's Otello starring opposite Placido Domingo. On UK television Barberini has appeared in the series "Strathblair" and "TECX."

TSAI CHIN - MADAME WU

The role of Madame Wu, the impassive Chinese poker player, marks Tsai Chin's second appearance in the 007 series. In 1967, she appeared alongside Sean Connery in You Only Live Twice.

Daughter of Zhou Xinfang, China's most eminent traditional actor, Tsai Chin was trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and began her career playing the title role of "The World of Susie Wong" in the West End. She appeared in Michelangelo Antonioni's seminal film Blow-Up, which starred fellow Casino Royale poker player, Veruschka. She has subsequently enjoyed an international career, appearing on stage, film and television. She recently starred in the Broadway production of "Golden Child" for which she won an Obie award.

Film roles include The Joy Luck Club, Red Corner and, most recently, Memoirs of a Geisha directed by Rob Marshall from the bestselling novel by Arthur Golden.

CHARLIE LEVI LEROY - GALLARDO

Charlie Levi Leroy enjoys a career spanning literature, music, theatre, television and film.

He began acting and singing as a child in his native Argentina. As a member of Argentina's top rock group, "The VIPs" and, as a soloist, he was awarded six gold discs.

Leroy trained at the Lee Strasbourg Institute in Los Angeles and the prestigious Oscar Cruz School of Drama in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He began acting in a television comedy series, before moving on to act and direct in theatre and film. He will soon direct his second motion picture, Four Women, following the success of his directorial debut Pas de Deux.

As an author, Leroy has written the novels The Wrong Angel, The Last Journey and The Treaty of the Twin Souls. His recent acting work includes The Last Week (La Semana Que Viene), Water Winds (Vientos de Agua) and the TV sitcom "Divinos."

Now a resident of Spain, he is a director at the Madrid Actors Laboratory and a Professor of Film Direction at two cinema schools in Madrid.

LAZAR RISTOVSKI - KAMINOVSKI

The most celebrated Serbian actor of his generation, Lazar Ristovski also produces and directs in his native country. He began acting while studying at Belgrade University and went on to a career on stage, television and screen.

He became known to international audiences when he starred in Emir Kusturica's 1995 epic Underground in the lead role of Blacky, which won many awards, including the Palme D'or at Cannes Film Festival.

In 1999, Ristovski directed, produced, wrote and starred in The White Suit (Belo Odelo), a black comedy which was chosen as Yugoslavia's OscarR entry and invited to screen at Cannes Film Festival, before going on to other international film festivals where it won awards and critical acclaim. The film was made under the banner of Ristovski's company, Zillion Films, which has also produced Boomerang, which he also starred in and wrote. Directed by Dragan Marinkovic, the film was screened in the Panorama section of Berlin Film Festival. Other films produced by Zillion and starring Ristovski include Midwinter Night's Dream directed by Goran Paskaljevic, which screened at Toronto and San Sebastian Film Festivals.

In 2006, Zillion Films produced three feature films starring Ristovski: A Tailor's Secret directed by Milos Avramovic, Tomorrow Morning directed by Oleg Novkovic (screened at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival) and Goran Paskaljevic's The Optimists.

Lazar Ristovski has written two novels - The White Suit, and How I Won OscarR.

TOM SO - FUKUTU

Tom So needed a new occupation when the UK IT industry floundered a few years ago. Friends suggested modeling because of his distinctive look, and he joined several agencies. This led to work as an extra in film and television and he has recently worked on such films as Harry Potter, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Stormbreaker, Children of Men, Notes on a Scandal and Stardust.

He has been a practicing Taoist for ten years, seeking balance in all things.

VERUSCHKA - GRAFIN VON WALLENSTEIN

Veruschka von Lehndorff is considered to be one of the world's very first supermodels and was described by Richard Avedon as "the most beautiful woman in the world" (Vogue 1972). Beginning her career in the 1960s, she was photographed by the leading photographers of the day, and appeared as herself in Michelangelo Antonioni's Blow-Up in 1966.

Other film roles include a starring role in Ulrike Ottinger's German production of The Image Dorian Gray in the Yellow Press (1984), Milo-Milo (1978), Franc Roddam's The Bride (1985), as well as directing and playing all the characters in Buddha Bum (1998).

Veruschka, a Prussian countess, recently returned from New York, where she was working as an artist, to live in Berlin. In 2005, the documentary Veruschka: A Life for the Camera by Paul Morrissey was selected for screening at Venice Biennale. As an artist, Veruschka is perhaps best known for her intricate body painting works (photographs published in a book entitled Veruschka Transfigurations). An exhibition of her photographs was recently shown in Berlin.

THE FILMMAKERS

MARTIN CAMPBELL - DIRECTOR

Martin Campbell returns to direct his second James Bond film, CASINO ROYALE. In 1995, he directed the hit GoldenEye successfully introducing Pierce Brosnan to the role of 007.

Born in New Zealand, Campbell moved to London where he began his career as a cameraman. He went on to produce the controversial British feature film Scum, as well as Black Joy, which was selected for competition at the Cannes Film Festival. Campbell made his directorial debut on British television on the police action series "The Professionals" and continued with two more popular BBC series "Shoestring" and "Minder."

Considered one of the UK's top directors by the mid-1980s, he directed the highly praised British television film "Reilly: Ace of Spies." "Edge of Darkness," a five-hour miniseries directed for the BBC, about nuclear contamination in England depicting murder and high-ranking corruption, won six BAFTA awards.

Campbell's first Hollywood movie was Criminal Law, and he went on to direct Defenceless and No Escape. His American television credits include directing HBO's "Cast a Deadly Spell" and two episodes of NBC's "Homicide: Life on the Street."

Following GoldenEye, he directed the international blockbuster The Mask of Zorro starring Catherine Zeta-Jones and Antonio Banderas, which earned Academy AwardR and Golden Globe nominations, Vertical Limit, Beyond Borders and, most recently, he directed The Legend of Zorro again starring Zeta-Jones and Banderas.

NEAL PURVIS & ROBERT WADE - SCREENPLAY BY

Neal Purvis & Robert Wade had their first success in 1991 with the screenplay for the controversial screen drama Let Him Have It, based on a true story about the killing of a policeman. The critically acclaimed film, directed by Peter Medak, was screened for Parliament and played a part in Derek Bentley's eventual posthumous pardon.

They have since worked in a variety of genres with screenplays for such films as The Wasp Factory, an adaptation of Iain Banks' novel for director Stephen Daldry, Plunkett & Macleane directed by Jake Scott, and Grid Iron for Working Title.

Between writing James Bond films The World Is Not Enough and 2002's Die Another Day, they worked on Johnny English starring Rowan Atkinson and John Malkovich. They recently wrote and co-produced Return to Sender for director Bille August and performed the same duties on Stoned for director Stephen Woolley.

Purvis and Wade are already at work on the next James Bond film, which will be filmed in 2007 for release in 2008.

PAUL HAGGIS - SCREENPLAY

Paul Haggis is the first person in the history of the Academy AwardsR to write two back-to-back Best Picture winners.

In 2006, Crash, which he co-wrote, directed and produced, won the Academy AwardsR for Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay. The previous year, Million Dollar Baby, which Haggis wrote and produced, also took home the Best Picture Academy AwardR, among others. Both Crash and Million Dollar Baby have won countless other international accolades, including BAFTAs, Donatellos, Independent Spirit and Writers Guild of America Awards.

His writing for television has also gained numerous awards, including two Emmy's for the seminal eighties series "thirtysomething," Gemini Awards for the series "Due South" and a Viewers Award for the critically acclaimed series he created, "EZ Streets."

Since then he has reunited with Clint Eastwood to write Flags of Our Fathers and Red Sun, Black Sand, both directed by Eastwood. Currently, Paul has a wide variety of projects in various stages including Against All Enemies from the book by Richard A. Clarke, In the Valley of Elah with journalist Mark Boal, and Honeymoon with Harry from the book by Bart Baker. He also has a new drama series "The Black Donnellys," which will debut in January of 2007.

MICHAEL G. WILSON - PRODUCER

When James Bond returned to the screen after an absence of six years, Michael G. Wilson produced the hugely successful GoldenEye with Barbara Broccoli, followed by the blockbuster 007 releases Tomorrow Never Dies, The World Is Not Enough and Die Another Day. Together they are the producers of CASINO ROYALE, the 21st film in the series, which stars Daniel Craig and Eva Green.

Wilson joined EON Productions in a legal-administrative capacity in 1972 and was named assistant to the producer on The Spy Who Loved Me. He received his stripes as executive producer on Moonraker and continued with that credit on the following two Bond films. His creative abilities are evident in that he co-wrote For Your Eyes Only, Octopussy, A View to a Kill, The Living Daylights and License to Kill. He became producer with his stepfather, the late Albert R. Broccoli, on A View to a Kill, continuing with The Living Daylights and License to Kill. He is currently managing director of EON Productions, Ltd.

Wilson graduated from college as an electrical engineer. He studied law at Stanford University, worked for the U.S. government and later became a partner in a prestigious Washington, D.C. firm that specialized in international law.

Wilson is interested in all aspects of still photography and is recognized as a leading expert on 19th century photography. He is a member of the Advisory Council of the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television (a branch of the NMSI) and, in 1998, he founded the Wilson Centre for Study and Research on the History and Aesthetics of Photography.

In 2003, together with Dana Broccoli, Wilson and Barbara Broccoli produced the award-winning stage version of "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang," which opened to rave reviews in London and later in New York.

BARBARA BROCCOLI - PRODUCER

A graduate of Loyola University, Los Angeles, where she majored in Motion Picture and Television Communications, Barbara Broccoli has worked in the production and casting departments at EON Productions for many years. Together with her step-brother Michael G. Wilson, she is producer of CASINO ROYALE, the 21ST 007 adventure in the series, which stars Daniel Craig and Eva Green.

Starting her career as an assistant director on Octopussy and A View to a Kill, Broccoli worked her way up to become associate producer on The Living Daylights and License to Kill. She then went on to produce GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World Is Not Enough and Die Another Day.

Through her own independent production company, Astoria Productions, Broccoli produced "Crime of the Century" for HBO starring Stephen Rea and Isabella Rossellini and directed by Mark Rydell from a screenplay by William Nicholson, based on a book by Ludovic Kennedy. The television film, about the kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby, was nominated for four Golden Globe Awards - Best Film, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor - in the category covering Motion Pictures or Mini-Series made for Television.

Broccoli is Chair of First Light, the UK Film Council's filmmaking initiative for young people.

In 2003, together with Dana Broccoli, Wilson and Barbara Broccoli produced the award-winning stage version of "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" which opened to rave reviews in London and later in New York.

ANTHONY WAYE - EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

Anthony Waye's association with EON Productions has spanned 25 years and CASINO ROYALE marks his tenth Bond outing.

Anthony Waye has been a leading member of the British film industry for over forty years, with a wealth of experience of international film production. His involvement with James Bond began when he was first assistant director on For Your Eyes Only and Octopussy. As production supervisor he worked on A View to a Kill, The Living Daylights and License to Kill, and became associate producer on GoldenEye. He then held the position of line producer on Tomorrow Never Dies and The World is Not Enough, and served as executive producer for Die Another Day, a role he repeats for CASINO ROYALE.

CALLUM McDOUGALL - EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

CASINO ROYALE is the sixth film in the James Bond series with which executive producer Callum McDougall has been involved. He began working on the 007 franchise as assistant director on The Living Daylights (1987) and then License to Kill (1989). He was unit production manager on GoldenEye (1995), and production supervisor on Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), becoming co-producer on Die Another Day (2002).

Callum McDougall entered the film industry in 1978, working as a production runner on such films as Victor/Victoria and the "Hammer House of Horror" television series. As a second assistant director he worked on over 20 films, including Air America, The Witches and The Muppet Christmas Carol, as well as George Lucas' internationally acclaimed television series "The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles," on which he took the role of production manager. Other credits as unit production manager include Fierce Creatures and 101 Dalmatians. He was co-producer on The Beach and produced the comedy The Parole Officer.

In 2004, he served as executive producer on the blockbuster Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.

ANDREW NOAKES - ASSOCIATE PRODUCER

Andrew Noakes started his career in the film industry working during the summer holidays for his father, who was the financial controller on Superman. He worked his way through the ranks, from tea boy and filing clerk on Octopussy in 1982. Andrew has since worked on 26 films, including every James Bond film since Octopussy. On Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) he took over the reigns from his father who had been EON's financial controller since For Your Eyes Only. This is his first film working in the role of associate producer.

PHIL MEHEUX BSC - DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY

CASINO ROYALE is Phil Meheux's eighth collaboration with director Martin Campbell. He has photographed all the director's feature films since Criminal Law, including Defenceless, No Escape, GoldenEye, The Mask of Zorro, Beyond Borders and The Legend of Zorro. Meheux first worked with Campbell when he was producing Black Joy and the controversial Scum.

Meheux began his career with the BBC and worked on drama series, documentaries, news and current affairs. In 1979, he was elected to the British Society of Cinematographers.

His credits include The Long Good Friday, The Saint, Entrapment and Around the World in 80 Days.

PETER LAMONT - PRODUCTION DESIGNER

Peter Lamont is a veteran of the James Bond movies and CASINO ROYALE marks his 18th 007 adventure. He began his association with the franchise on Goldfinger as a draftsman and has worked on every Bond film since (with the exception of Tomorrow Never Dies - he was unavailable because he was working on Titanic). Working his way up through the ranks, Lamont's first film as production designer on Bond was For Your Eyes Only, and he has continued in that capacity.

Lamont won an OscarR for his work on Titanic, received an OscarR nomination for Best Art Direction for The Spy Who Loved Me and was also honored with a nomination for Fiddler on the Roof and Aliens, for which he also received a BAFTA nomination.

Other film credits include Sleuth, The Dove, The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, The Boys from Brazil and Sphinx, Consuming Passions, Eve of Destruction, The Taking of Beverly Hills, True Lies and Wing Commander.

STUART BAIRD, A.C.E. - EDITOR

Stuart Baird previously collaborated with director Martin Campbell on the blockbuster The Legend of Zorro starring Catherine Zeta-Jones and Antonio Banderas.

He has twice been nominated for an Academy AwardR - for his work on Superman directed by Richard Donner and for Michael Apted's Gorillas in the Mist starring Sigourney Weaver. Other credits include Maverick, Lethal Weapon I & II and Demolition Man.

As a director, Baird's credits include Star Trek: Nemesis, U.S. Marshals and Executive Decision.

LINDY HEMMING - COSTUME DESIGNER

Lindy Hemming has worked on four previous Bond films - GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World is Not Enough and Die Another Day.

Winner of the Academy AwardR and BAFTA award for her work on Mike Leigh's Topsy Turvy, she has also collaborated with the director on "Meantime," High Hopes, Life is Sweet and Naked.

Other recent credits include Four Weddings and a Funeral, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and Batman Begins.

Hemming graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, after studying stage management and design. She began working in London's fringe theatre, which led on to The Royal Shakespeare Company and Royal National Theatre. In 1982, she joined London Weekend Television for a year before beginning her career in film.

DAVID ARNOLD - COMPOSER

David Arnold has composed, arranged and produced the score for CASINO ROYALE, his fourth James Bond film, following Tomorrow Never Dies, The World is Not Enough and Die Another Day.

Hailed as one of the most successful young British composers, Arnold began his film career making short films with fellow enthusiast Danny Cannon, teaching himself to write, orchestrate and compose the scores for their films. In 1993, he scored Cannon's feature film debut The Young Americans, combining lush orchestration with Bjork's vocals for the title song "Play Dead," which earned critical and commercial success. This led to the offer to score Stargate, Roland Emmerich's sci-fi film, which enjoyed box-office success and earned Arnold his first BMI Award.

Since then David Arnold has been recognized by the film industry as a talented and diverse composer, arranger and producer, whose scores include Shaft, Changing Lanes, 2 Fast 2 Furious, The Stepford Wives and, most recently, Michael Apted's Amazing Grace, Venus directed by Roger Michell, and Hot Fuzz directed by Edgar Wright.

Winner of seven BMI Awards for his music for Tomorrow Never Dies, The World is Not Enough, Die Another Day, Stargate, Independence Day, Godzilla and 2 Fast 2 Furious, he also won a Grammy for Independence Day and recently won the Royal Television Society Award for the title music of the UK comedy series "Little Britain." In addition, he won the Ivor Novello Award for the music for The World Is Not Enough.

Away from the film world, Arnold maintains a career as a successful record producer and song writer, working with a wide range of contemporary artists including k.d. lang, Pulp, Chrissie Hynde, Iggy Pop, Garbage, David McAlmont, Martina Topley-Bird, Natasha Bedingfield, Aimee Mann, George Michael and Damien Rice.

An avid James Bond fan, in 1997 Arnold produced "Shaken and Stirred," an album of James Bond film title songs which reached number 11 in the UK album chart.

As composer for CASINO ROYALE, Arnold collaborated with Chris Cornell to write the title song "You Know My Name."

CHRIS CORBOULD - SPECIAL EFFECTS

AND MINIATURE EFFECTS SUPERVISOR

Chris Corbould has supervised special effects in four previous Bond films, and has been involved in a total of eleven 007 adventures.

His Bond credits are The Spy Who Loved Me (SFX Technician), Moonraker (SFX Technician), For Your Eyes Only (Senior Technician), A View To A Kill (Senior Technician), The Living Daylights (Floor Supervisor), Licence To Kill (2nd Unit Supervisor), GoldenEye (SFX Supervisor), Tomorrow Never Dies (SFX Supervisor), The World Is Not Enough (SFX Supervisor) and Die Another Day (SFX Supervisor).

Corbould's other film credits as supervisor include The Mummy, 102 Dalmatians, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life, and most recently, Batman Begins, for director Christopher Nolan.

GARY POWELL - STUNT CO-ORDINATOR

CASINO ROYALE is Gary Powell's fourth James Bond film having worked as a stuntman on GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies and The World is Not Enough. Amongst some of his most notable work on previous 007 films is the St. Petersburg tank chase (GoldenEye) and the Q-boat barrel roll on the river Thames in London (The World is Not Enough).

Powell was born into a family of stuntmen and performed his first stunt at the age of 11 in one of the Carry On films. Working his way through the ranks to stunt coordinator, his other credits include Saving Private Ryan, The Mummy, The Mummy Returns, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber Of Secrets, Terminator 3, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Alexander, The Legend of Zorro and, most recently Blood and Chocolate.

ALEXANDER WITT - 2ND UNIT DIRECTOR

Alexander Witt's career spans more than 25 years, starting as a camera assistant and then an operator and director of photography. He has since earned a stellar reputation as one of the industry's top visualizes as both a second unit director and a director of photography and made his directorial debut in 2004 on Resident Evil: Apocalypse staring Milla Jovovich.

Noted for his high-octane car chases and action sequences, his credits as a second unit director include Speed and Speed 2, Twister, Gladiator, Hannibal, Black Hawk Down, The Bourne Identity, xXx and The Italian Job. Most recently, Witt worked as second unit director on Hidalgo and Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.

DEBBIE McWILLIAMS - CASTING DIRECTOR

Debbie McWilliams has cast eight previous Bond films - For Your Eyes Only, Octopussy, A View to a Kill, The Living Daylights, GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World is Not Enough and Die Another Day.

Her impressive list of other credits includes Superman I and Superman II, An American Werewolf in London, Spies Like Us, Henry V, My Beautiful Laundrette, Personal Services, Monty Python's Life of Brian and Othello. Recent television credits include the Spielberg produced series "Band of Brothers" and the children's fantasy mini-series "Dinotopia."

CHRIS CORNELL - SONGWRITER

AND PERFORMING ARTIST

FOR "YOU KNOW MY NAME"

Chris Cornell is the singer-songwriter and founding member behind Temple of the Dog, Soundgarden and Audioslave. Ranked 12th in MTV's "22 Greatest Voices in Music" survey, ahead of such icons as David Bowie, Steven Tyler and Bruce Springsteen, Cornell has been called "the single most dynamic rock and roll force produced by the Grunge Revolution of the early 90s."

Currently working on his 13th album with Steve Lillywhite (U2, Rolling Stones), Cornell's songs have been featured in several other blockbuster films such as Miami Vice, Collateral, Mission Impossible: II, Great Expectations, True Romance, Singles and Basketball Diary's.

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年份	英文名	片名	主演
1962	Dr. No	鐵金剛勇破神秘島	辛康納利
1963	From Russia with Love	鐵金剛勇破間諜網
1964	Goldfinger	鐵金剛大戰金手指
1965	Thunderball	鐵金剛勇戰魔鬼黨
1967	You Only Live Twice	鐵金剛勇破火箭嶺
1967	Casino Royale	鐵金剛橫掃皇家賭場	彼德斯拉,大衛尼文
1969	On Her Majesty's Secret Service	鐵金剛勇破雪山堡	佐治拉辛比
1971	Diamonds are Forever	鐵金剛勇破鑽石黨	辛康納利
1973	Live and Let Die	鐵金剛勇破黑魔黨	羅渣摩亞
1974	The Man with the Golden Gun	鐵金剛大戰金槍客
1977	The Spy Who Loved Me	鐵金剛勇破海底城
1979	Moonraker	鐵金剛勇破太空城
1981	For Your Eyes Only	鐵金剛勇破海龍幫
1983	Never Say Never Again	鐵金剛勇奪巡航導彈	辛康納利
1983	Octopussy	鐵金剛勇破爆炸黨	羅渣摩亞
1985	A View to a Kill	鐵金剛勇戰大狂魔	羅渣摩亞
1987	The Living Daylights	鐵金剛大戰特務飛龍	鐵摩達頓
1989	Licence to Kill	鐵金剛勇戰殺人狂魔	鐵摩達頓
1995	Goldeneye	新鐵金剛之金眼睛	皮雅斯布士南
1997	Tomorrow Never Dies	新鐵金剛之明日帝國
1999	The World is Not Enough	新鐵金剛之黑日危機
2002	Die Another Day	新鐵金剛之不日殺機
2006	Casino Royale	新鐵金剛智破皇家賭場	丹尼爾基克

片名	歌名	主唱
鐵金剛勇破神秘島	The James Bond Theme	John Barry Orchestra
鐵金剛勇破間諜網	From Russia with Love	Matt Munro
鐵金剛大戰金手指	Goldfinger	Shirley Bassey
鐵金剛勇戰魔鬼黨	Thunderball	Tom Jones
鐵金剛勇破火箭嶺	You Only Live Twice	Nancy Sinatra
鐵金剛勇破雪山堡	On Her Majesty's Secret Service, We Have All the Time in the World	John Barry Orchestra, Louis Armstrong
鐵金剛勇破鑽石黨	Diamonds are Forever	Shirley Bassey
鐵金剛勇破黑魔黨	Live and Let Die	Paul McCartnet and Wings
鐵金剛大戰金槍客	The Man with the Golden Gun	Lulu
鐵金剛勇破海底城	Nobody Does It Better	Carley Simon
鐵金剛勇破太空城	Moonraker	Shirley Bassey
鐵金剛勇破海龍幫	For Your Eyes Only	Sheena Easton
鐵金剛勇奪巡航導彈	Never Say Never Again	Lani Hall
鐵金剛勇破爆炸黨	All Time High	Ritta Coolidge
鐵金剛勇戰大狂魔	A View to a Kill	Duran Duran
鐵金剛大戰特務飛龍	The Living Daylights	A-Ha
鐵金剛勇戰殺人狂魔	Licence to Kill	Gladys Knight
新鐵金剛之金眼睛	Goldeneye	Tiner Turner
新鐵金剛之明日帝國	Tommorow Never Dies	Sheryl Crow
新鐵金剛之黑日危機	The World is Not Enough	Shirley Manson (Garbage)
新鐵金剛之不日殺機	Die Another Day	Madonna
新鐵金剛智破皇家賭場	You Know My Name	Chris Cornell