Casino Royale is directed by Martin Campbell and is the first Bond film starring Daniel Craig as the infamous agent. Bond must defeat a private banker funding terrorists in a high-stakes game of poker at Casino Royale, Montenegro. After earning 00 status and a licence to kill, secret agent James Bond sets out on his first mission as 007. In an early spy spoof, aging Sir James Bond comes out of retirement to take on SMERSH. With Peter Sellers, Ursula Andress, David Niven, Orson Welles. Directed by Martin Campbell from a screenplay by Neil Purvis, Robert Wade, and Paul Haggis, it stars Daniel Craig in his first appearance as Bond, alongside Eva Green, Mads … Casino Royale: Directed by Val Guest, Ken Hughes, John Huston, Joseph McGrath, Robert Parrish, Richard Talmadge. Casino Royale is a 2006 spy film, the twenty-first in the Eon Productions James Bond series, and the third screen adaptation of Ian Fleming’s 1953 novel of the same name.