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Aus der IMDB:
Casino Royale was Ian Fleming’s first James Bond novel. It was the only one not sold to Eon Productions. As a result, CBS TV first adapted it for an episode of „Climax!“ (1954) in 1954, starring Barry Nelson as CIA agent Jimmy Bond. When plans began to adapt the novel as a motion picture, the original thought was to do a straight film of the novel. But with the success of Sean Connery’s Bond, it was decided the only way a rival Bond film could survive would be as a parody. The Peter Sellers sequence is the only part of Ian Fleming’s novel to make it into the film. The confrontation with Le Chiffre in the casino, the plan to discredit Le Chiffre with SMERSH and the villain’s execution by enemy agents are all in the novel. So is the notion of Bond writing a book on baccarat, and the element of Vesper being an enemy spy. Reportedly, Eon Productions has been trying to buy back the rights to Casino Royale for years, in hopes of someday making a serious Bond film out of the novel.
Producer Charles K. Feldman originally offered to make the film as a co-production with official Bond series producers Harry Saltzman and Albert R. Broccoli. Saltzman and Broccoli had just co-produced the previous Bond flick Thunderball (1965) with Kevin McClory, and did not want to do so again. Forced to produce the film on his own, Feldman approached Sean Connery to star as Bond. Unwilling to meet his $1 million salary demand, Feldman decided to turn the film into a spoof, and cast David Niven as Bond instead. After the film went through numerous production problems and a spiralling budget, Feldman met Connery at a Hollywood party and reportedly told him it would have been cheaper to pay him the million dollars.
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