Skyfall the service. Javier Bardem was cast as the film's principal villain, Raoul Silva, a cyberterrorist who is seeking revenge against those he holds responsible for betraying him. Bardem described Silva as "more than a villain", while Craig stated that Bond has a "very important relationship" to Silva. In casting the role, director Sam Mendes admitted that he lobbied hard for Bardem to accept the part. Mendes saw the potential for the character to be recognised as one of the most memorable characters in the series and wanted to create "something [the audience] may consider to have been absent from the
Skyfall: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack time the label had released a Bond soundtrack, with the first being the "Casino Royale" soundtrack album. Unlike most other Bond soundtracks, the soundtrack album to "Skyfall" does not contain the title song performed by Adele. This marks only the second time that this has happened, the first being the "Casino Royale" soundtrack album. Despite this, at the producer's insistence Newman added an interpolation of "Skyfall" in the track "Komodo Dragon", used in a scene where Bond enters a casino in Macau. The CD booklet mentions that the score contains interpolations of the "James Bond Theme", written by Monty Norman.