“M” places Bond under the watchful eye of the Treasury official Vesper Lynd. “M” (Judi Dench), head of the British Secret Service, sends the newly-promoted 007 on his first mission that takes him to Madagascar, the Bahamas and eventually leads him to Montenegro to face Le Chiffre, a ruthless financier under threat from his terrorist clientele, who is attempting to restore his funds in a high-stakes poker game at the Casino Royale. But Bond is no less dangerous, and with two professional assassinations in quick succession, he is elevated to “00” status. Plot SynopsisĬasino Royale introduces James Bond before he holds his license to kill. The region 1 release date is scheduled for Tuesday, 13 March 2007 with the region 2 release date on Monday, 19 March. Releases on the PSP and Blu-ray DVD formats are also included. Like the original DVD release of 2002’s Die Another Day, the Casino Royale DVD will be a two-disc collector’s edition. Because Casino Royale, in my opinion, is a continuation, not a reboot, of the Bond series.CBn rounds up all the latest news regarding the DVD release of Daniel Craig’s first James Bond 007 film, Casino Royale… In addition, the film makers themselves (again) describe a main aspect of the storyline of CR being how bond earns his double 00 status and becomes the character we are familiar with in the other films - implying CR happens before the other films. winning the aston martin and creating the vesper martini come to mind). 'file shows no kills'), the allusions to references that occur in the other movies but seem to be happening for the first time in CR (e.g.

If you take 'reboot' to mean whether the CR story happens before or after other movies in the series (which is implied by your post but i dont necessarily agree this is the way 'reboot' should be/is defined).i think the circumstantial evidence is overwhelming that CR storyline is intended to happen before all the movies - the lines already quoted in this thread (e.g.

The above are mostly contextual backgrounds that resulted from interviews with film makers, etc and can be seen in the vibe of the movie itself. i take it to mean a stylistic return to the earlier entries in the series (this is alluded to as a goal of the producers in making CR quite frequently - they often cite DN and FRWL as the style/story models for CR).Īnother change that is cited is a 'back to basics' type of plot - less gadgets, less fantastical situations (granted, it is an action flick so there is going to be unrealistic situations.but chasing a terrorist through a construction site is a lot different than taversing mines in the DMZ in a hovercraft, for instance), more reality basically.

It depends really what one means by 'reboot'.

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