Review: Casino Royale is the 21st film in the James Bond series and the first to star Daniel Craig as MI6 agent James Bond. Based on the 1953 novel Casino Royale by Ian Fleming, it was adapted by Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, and Academy Award-winning screenwriter Paul Haggis and directed by Martin Campbell, director of the 1995 Bond film GoldenEye.
Casino Royale is the first Bond film to take its title from an Ian Fleming novel or short story since 1987's The Living Daylights. It is also the first Bond film since The Living Daylights not to be adapted as a novelisation.