Trivia: In the film, Bond says to M, "So you want me to be half-monk, half-hitman." This is a reference to the character John Ballard (played by Daniel Craig) in the 1998 film "Elizabeth".
Trivia: "Casino Royale" marks the first time the actor playing James Bond (Daniel Craig) is younger than the movie series itself.
Trivia: The internal shots of the hotel in Venice Bond is staying in were filmed in the National Museum in Prague. The patterned floor is very recognisable to anyone who's been there.
Trivia: Director Martin Campbell makes a cameo as the gasoline truck driver, killed by the attempted plane bomber. (00:48:20)
Trivia: The chief of police, who is arrested as Bond sits at a café, is in fact Michael G. Wilson, one of the film's producers.
Trivia: Daniel Craig lost some of his teeth whilst practising for a fight scene.
Trivia: "Casino Royale" is actually the second Bond film that director Martin Campbell has helmed. He previously directed 1995's "GoldenEye," meaning that he is responsible for introducing the two most recent on-screen Bonds to the world. "GoldenEye" was the debut of Pierce Brosnan in the role, and "Casino Royale" was the debut of Daniel Craig.
Trivia: Richard Branson made a very quick cameo as a passenger getting checked at a security gate, when Bond was running through Miami Dade airport.
Trivia: Ford was obviously the car company displayed in the movie. Right after you first see his Ford, he drives into the club and takes a Range Rover, a company owned by Ford. While Bond valets the car (poorly), every car in the parking lot is owned by Ford: Ford, Lincoln, Jaguar, Volvo. There's one exception with one parked Caddy he passes.
Trivia: This was the first Bond film since Live and Let Die that did not feature Q, and was the first Bond film that did not feature Miss Moneypenny.
Trivia: Tsai Chin, who had previously played Ling in You Only Live Twice (1967), has a cameo as Madame Wu during the poker game at Casino Royale.
Trivia: Although it lasts for only seven minutes on screen, the opening Parkour chase took six weeks to film.
Trivia: Pierce Brosnan had expressed an interest in playing James Bond in this movie, but the producers thought that Brosnan, who was 53 at the time, was too old to play the inexperienced and grittier version of the character. If Brosnan were to return, he would have been paid $30 million.
Trivia: Solange's name is never mentioned once during the film. It is only mentioned in the closing credits.
Trivia: The famous shot when Daniel Craig rises from the sea in his swimming trunks was created purely by accident. The reason why Craig suddenly rises is because he walked on a sand bank.
Trivia: The name of the hotel Bond stays at in Montenegro is the Hotel Splendide, which was the title of a film Daniel Craig previously starred in.
Trivia: Casino Royale was initially developed to be Pierce Brosnan's fifth Bond movie. However, as development progressed the producers and writers decided the story would work better for a younger 007.
Trivia: The sinking building scene in Venice took three weeks to shoot.
Chosen answer: Le Chiffre operates as the banker for Mr White's entire organisation. The Ugandan is only one of many individuals and groups for whom Le Chiffre provides financial services; killing him does little to solve the problem of the missing money. Plus there's the question of trust - if Le Chiffre can't keep the money safe, then Mr White's organisation have no use for him and, as we see in the movie, will readily eliminate him. Le Chiffre's desperate to recover the money to prove his trustworthiness and save his own life.
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