Posted on 12/01/2004 9:33:31 AM PST by gopwinsin04
Very violent novel btw..for those who have never read it.
LOL. Who's the next Bond? And who is the Bond Girl? :)
Ewan MacGregor as violent Bond?
I remember the song....Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass I believe....
It featured a group of American Indians yelling Geronimo as the jumped out of an airplane with teepee shaped parachutes.
Britney Spears or Kylie Minogue as a potential bond girl?
Did Woody Allen direct that film?
FALSE - Casino Royale was the FIRST filmed Bond story. It was shot for television. Because the rights had been sold before the Dr. No years, other producers owned this work.
They remade it in the late 1960s but were prohibited from using characters and plotlines because some of them had already appeared in the "other" Bond films.
They made a satirical film in an era when there were almost as many spy comedies as there were cloak and dagger suspense spy films.
There was some sort of option on Thunderball for a Bond tv series that never happened. It was how some other filmmakers owned rights to remake Thunderball as Never Say Never Again. They even considered remaking that story AGAIN.
BTW, the original tv Casino Royale can be found on the MGM DVD for the film. The film itself would have been much better if the past his prime Orson Welles had not gotten Peter Sellers fired from the film. Peter Sellers is among the best thing about that film (Ursella Andress is among the other good things, and their scenes together are great).
I was going to post the same thing in the first comment but figured someone would bring it up..
Woody Allen appeared in Casino Royale but was not one of the four directors who made the film.
Woody Allen "made" his own spy comedy by redubbing a Japanese spy film and calling it What's Up Tiger Lily.
When the media can't even get simple trivial news right, it casts all doubt on the serious, historical, and political "news".
Writing credits
Ian Fleming (novel)
Wolf Mankowitz ...
Tagline: Casino Royale is too much for one James Bond!
Plot Outline: In an early spy spoof, aging Sir James Bond (David Niven) comes out of retirement to take on SMERSH.
Cast overview, first billed only:
Peter Sellers .... Evelyn Tremble/James Bond/007
Ursula Andress .... Vesper Lynd/007
David Niven .... Sir James Bond
Orson Welles .... Le Chiffre
Joanna Pettet .... Mata Bond
Daliah Lavi .... The Detainer/007
Woody Allen .... Dr. Noah/Jimmy Bond
Deborah Kerr .... Agent Mimi/Lady Fiona McTarry
William Holden .... Ransome
Charles Boyer .... Le Grand
John Huston .... McTarry/M
Kurt Kasznar .... Smernov
George Raft .... Himself
Jean-Paul Belmondo .... French Legionnaire (as Jean Paul Belmondo)
Terence Cooper .... Cooper/James Bond/007
So much of "entertainment news" is nothing but a commercial press release.
What a cast! John Huston and Orson Welles..
And George Raft, the proverbial cigarette-smoking coin-flipper himself.
I thought it was "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang".
Bill Holden and Ursula Undress as well..
Nice Freudian slip of the keyboard.
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