<Tr> <Th> Budget </Th> <Td> $150 million </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Box office </Th> <Td> $599 million </Td> </Tr> <P> Casino Royale (2006) is the twenty - first spy film in the Eon Productions James Bond film series, and the third screen adaptation of Ian Fleming's 1953 novel of the same name . Directed by Martin Campbell and written by Neal Purvis & Robert Wade and Paul Haggis, it is the first film to star Daniel Craig as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond, and was produced by Eon Productions for Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer and Columbia Pictures, making it the first Eon - produced Bond film to be co-produced by the latter studio . Following Die Another Day, Eon Productions decided to reboot the series, allowing them to show a less experienced and more vulnerable Bond . </P> <P> Casino Royale takes place at the beginning of Bond's career as Agent 007, as he is earning his licence to kill . The plot sees Bond on an assignment to bankrupt terrorist financier Le Chiffre in a high - stakes poker game; Bond falls in love with Vesper Lynd, a treasury employee assigned to provide the money he needs for the game . The film begins a story arc that continues in Quantum of Solace (2008). </P>

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