Episode 32: Casino Royale

Beyond the Screenplay

Michael Tucker

Tv & Film

4.7 • 626 Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2020

⏱️ 77 minutes

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The LFTS team discusses what audiences expect from a James Bond movie, Casino Royale’s place in the overall Bond timeline, and why so much of the film seems fresh and exciting.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Michael and welcome to Beyond the Screenplay.
0:09.4	Today we are talking about Casino Royale, the 2006 film directed by Martin Campbell, written by Neil Purvis, Robert Wade, and Paul Haggis.
0:18.3	I'm joined by the lessons from the screenplay team, Trisha Arand.
0:21.8	Hello, everyone.
0:22.8	Brian Bittner.
0:23.6	Hello, hello.
0:24.3	And Alex Coyotes.
0:25.5	Hello.
0:26.4	So, Trisha, I believe it was you that wanted to talk about a Bond film.
0:31.5	Surprise, surprise.
0:32.3	I know.
0:33.8	Why did you want to talk about this film and the video that we made specifically focusing on the opening sequence here?
0:41.6	Yeah. Well, I'm a huge action movie junkie, as listeners will probably know by now, and I know you guys do.
0:48.3	And obviously a huge Bond fan as well. It's just something about the way that this movie came together.
0:55.4	It's such an exceptional example of a Bond movie that sort of, in a lot of ways that I'm sure
1:01.7	we can talk about, reinvented who Bond is, what Bond is, influenced much more by action
1:08.6	films in the early 2000s. Before this, you have Die Another
1:11.7	Day was the last Brosnan movie, which was in 2002, which was really more and it felt more.
1:17.1	And I think this is why there was this like dissonance. It felt more like a late 90s Bond movie.
1:21.9	And so trying to like update Bond into the 2000s, What is that going to look like? You know,
1:28.7	borrowing from other action movie influences at the time. And so I just think that there's so
1:33.5	much about the writing of Casino Royale. And of course, we can get into Ian Fleming's novel as
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