Casino Royale (novel) Eon Productions making the 2006 film "Casino Royale". The film stars Daniel Craig as Bond, supported by Eva Green as Vesper Lynd and Mads Mikkelsen as Le Chiffre; Judi Dench returned for her fifth Bond film as Bond's superior, M. "Casino Royale" is a reboot, showing Bond at the beginning of his career as a 00-agent and overall stays true to the original novel. Casino Royale (novel) Casino Royale is the first novel by the British author Ian Fleming. Published in 1953, it is the first "James Bond" book, and it paved the way for a further eleven novels and
Eva (1948 film) Eva (1948 film) Eva is a 1948 Swedish drama film directed by Gustaf Molander and written by Ingmar Bergman. It was adapted from Bergman's short story "Trumpetaren och vår herre". As Bo (Birger Malmsten) returns home from military service, he flashes back to an episode in his childhood where he ran away from home and fell in with a band of performers. One of the performers has a daughter, a blind girl, and seeking to impress her Bo steals a locomotive. The train crashes and the girl is killed. This is first of many intrusions of death into Bo's life.