{"id":8770,"date":"2021-11-02T14:08:23","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T14:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/casino.online\/?p=8770"},"modified":"2023-04-26T18:35:25","modified_gmt":"2023-04-26T17:35:25","slug":"casino-royale-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casino.online\/advisor\/casino-royale-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Casino Royale Review<\/b> The Best Casino Movie Reviewed"},"content":{"rendered":"\"\"<\/span>\r\n

The opening song of the movie \u201cCasino Royale\u201d by the one and only Chris Cornell contains the lyric \u201cYou know my name\u201d – and we couldn\u2019t imagine a more appropriate line being written for the opening minutes of this movie. Everyone knows the name James Bond, he\u2019s arguably the most famous movie character of all time. Even if you\u2019ve never seen a single 007 movie, you know exactly who Bond is<\/strong>, what he does, how he dresses and what he\u2019s all about. But, to be honest, chances are that you\u2019ve already seen at least one of his movies, given that the character first appeared on screen in 1962 and has since been in 25 official movies (and a few non-official ones, because the rights to the character are a little weird – more on that later).<\/p>\r\n

So when, in our list of the top 10 casino movies<\/a>, we called \u201cCasino Royale\u201d not only the best casino movie, but also the best Bond movie, that should be considered the highest praise we could possibly award it. But what exactly makes \u201cCasino Royale\u201d so good, and why should you watch it? Maybe you\u2019ve never seen a James Bond movie before, or you saw some and thought they were just silly spy fun with gadgets and fast cars. What makes \u201cCasino Royale\u201d different? Well, brace yourselves, because we\u2019re about to dive deep into the best casino movie of all time<\/strong>!<\/p>\r\n<\/div>

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The Pre-Production<\/h2>\r\n\"\"\r\n

One of the most interesting things about \u201cCasino Royale\u201d is just how it came to be, as the process was very different from how the other Bond movies were made. As you may know, the Bond character was created by writer Ian Fleming, and all 007 movies are (albeit loosely) based on Fleming\u2019s novels. \u201cCasino Royale\u201d was the very first 007 novel<\/strong>, which Fleming dreamed of seeing on the big screen even before its publication in 1952. He soon sold the rights to a producer, Gregory Ratoff, who wasn\u2019t able to get the movie made because every studio he pitched it to thought that the character of Bond was too stupid, sexist and over the top. One studio even proposed changing Bond\u2019s gender and making \u201cCasino Royale\u201d with Jane Bond – can you imagine how history might have been different then?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Ultimately, plans fell through, and a producer by the name of Albert Broccoli managed to negotiate a deal with Fleming to buy the film rights to James Bond as a package deal through his company EON. That same deal is what gave us \u201cDr No\u201d in 1962, the first ever Bond movie<\/strong>, and continues to give us 007 flicks to this day (with Albert\u2019s daughter Barbara continuing to produce them even today). That package deal, of course, didn\u2019t include the rights to \u201cCasino Royale\u201d, which had been bought by Ratoff and then, after his death, by another producer named Charles Feldman. Feldman attempted to work with Broccoli on the movie, but couldn\u2019t come to an agreement, so he ultimately sold the rights to Columbia Pictures in order to make \u201cCasino Royale\u201d as a parody of James Bond in the late 60s. And that was that.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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