Eon Productions

Thanks for having me.

Today, we're turning our attention to Casino Royale, the 21st film in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions, the third screen adaption of Ian Fleming's 1953 novel of the same name, and the first film to star Daniel Craig as the iconic MI6 agent James Bond.

This is your warning.

We will be talking spoilers.

And they had to convince...

Eon Productions to do another game because they'd given up on games because they thought they were all crap, basically, which a lot of them were over the last 15 years or so.

They weren't interested in doing any more.

They had to really prove IO that they could make this work and make you feel like you were Bond.

This is where you start to sweat.

James Bond movies have been on screen since 1962, and Eon Productions has made nearly all of them.

Of Eon's 25 Bond films, one actor has played 007 more than anybody else.

At an impressive seven times, name this actor.

Regardless, No Time to Die camped off a five-film era with Daniel Craig as Bond.

Supposedly, Craig told Barbara Broccoli of Eon Productions in 2006 the actor wanted his era of Bond movies to conclude with Bond being killed and she concurred.

Was that real or some Eon publicity talking point? Who knows? It ended up being the official Eon storyline.

The final James Bond movie under the control of Eon was a soap opera.

I mean, there's a lot of things like this.

That means somebody had a lot of pull and it wasn't Eon Productions.

Not only did Howard Hughes help out, but so did Sidney Korshak.

He's a lawyer who was supposedly Chicago's mafia man in LA.

All right.

We're going to start with a bit of an homage and a sad to see you go that are part of this movie.

This is Sean Connery's last Eon Productions James Bond movie.

Which means that it was the last time he was in the gun barrel sequence.

it's a little bit more loose because...

I think Eon Productions was not happy that they did this, even though the title of the episode is based on this other movie.

I think they were like, it's a little, it's a little close because I don't want to spoil anything for that movie, but like the villain is named Dr. Noah.

So it's like that kind of, that kind of vibe.

The actor's brush with Bond? After Colossus, Albert R.

Broccoli of Eon Productions had become interested in the actor.

According to the seller's book, Braden, quote, was a similar type to Connery, meaning Sean Connery, in that he was smooth and laid back in his acting style, unquote.

Then, according to sellers, quoting Brayden, Broccoli discovered the actor was German.

I think when you look back and sort of going back on our discussion of how this evolved and how it came about, I think intentionally it didn't start off as an incoherent film.

I think it became one through this series of almost deliberate decisions because Feldman, not having the rights to Sean Connery, decided to try and outdo Eon Productions by just overblowing everything and then it just all fell apart and then it was down to Val Guest.

to try and piece together what was left from these five or six directors.

And fair play to him.