Casino Royale (novel) is given to the leading lady, named Valérie Mathis instead of Vesper Lynd. In March 1955 Ian Fleming sold the film rights of "Casino Royale" to the producer Gregory Ratoff for $6,000. After Ratoff's death, producer Charles K. Feldman represented Ratoff's widow and obtained the rights to make a film version. Feldman decided the best way to profit from the film rights was to make a satirical version, which was produced and released in 1967 by Columbia Pictures. The film, which cast David Niven as Bond, was made with five credited directors (plus one uncredited) and a cast that included
Eva Green curse turns Johnny Depp's character into a vampire in Tim Burton's "Dark Shadows". In 2014, she played Artemisia in the "300" sequel, "" for which she received excellent reviews. Rafer Guzman in his "Newsday" review stated, "The one bright spot is Eva Green as Xerxes' machinator, Artemesia, a raccoon-eyed warrior princess... Green plays a snarling, insatiable, self-hating femme fatale and completely steals the show." Stephanie Zacharek writing for "The Village Voice" exclaimed, ""Rise of an Empire" might have been essentially more of the same, but for one distinction that makes it 300 times better than its predecessor: Mere mortals of