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Ben Sanderson, a Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his alcoholism, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera. Director: Mike Figgis Stars. Make stunning, high quality videos like professionals – quickly and easily. Whether you’re creating cinematic style movies, videos of your latest adventure or combining clips to share exciting, memorable moments, PowerDirector is the perfect mobile editing app for you. With a large selection of powerful editing tools that are updated monthly and a simple, intuitive app interface, you’ll. Directed by Martin Campbell and written by Neil Purvis, Robert Wade and Paul Haggis, it is the first film to star Daniel Craig as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond, and was produced by Eon Productions for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Columbia Pictures, making it the first Eon-produced Bond film to be co-produced by Columbia.

Casino Royale was an integral movie for the James Bond franchise.

While Pierce Brosnan’s four-film stint as the spy was a financial success, his final two entries, The World Is Not Enough and especially Die Another Day, were met with negative reviews.

So when Daniel Craig was cast as Brosnan’s replacement the decision was quickly made to take Bond in a new direction.

And that’s exactly why Martin Campbell was brought in to direct 2006’s Casino Royale, as he had previously overseen Goldeneye, Brosnan’s critically-acclaimed first outing.

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Campbell has now been discussing his efforts on Casino Royale, telling Polygon that those behind the James Bond franchise “wanted to bring it back to earth” with the film.

“When I came on board, I felt the same way. I felt the whole thing needed to have its feet well and truly on the ground,” he said.

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One of the main plot points of Casino Royale revolves around Bond taking on Mads Mikkelsen’s terrorist financier Le Chiffre at a high-stakes game of poker.

Looking back on these poker sequences, Campbell said that the key to making them “convincing” was that they are not just about “the card games,” adding: “It’s the stakes. It’s also two guys eye-******* one another, basically. That was the secret.”

Casino Royale’s editor Stuart Baird said that everyone involved was originally worried how they would “keep the audience engaged in those card games,” as they thought that people might quickly become “bored with it”.

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Campbell solved this problem by making sure the film’s 30-minute sequence set in the casino showcased Bond’s mental capability as well as his mortality. This was particularly riveting since Campbell described Craig’s Bond as “a bull in the china shop” throughout Casino Royale, adding: “He just hurls himself no matter what the dangers are, he’s not really thinking.”

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Craig’s final appearance as Bond will hopefully hit cinemas next year, as No Time To Die is still scheduled for release in April.

Martin Campbell (born 24 October 1943) is a New Zealand film and television director based in the United Kingdom. He is best known for directing the highly regarded British miniseries Edge of Darkness (1985), for which he won a BAFTA, The Mask of Zorro (1998), and the James Bond filmsGoldenEye (1995) and Casino Royale (2006).

Life and career[edit]

Born in Hastings, New Zealand, Campbell moved to London, where he began his career as a director of softcore sex comedies and action television series in the 1970s. He went on to direct two James Bond films, 1995's GoldenEye, starring Pierce Brosnan, and 2006's Casino Royale, starring Daniel Craig, and was the oldest director in the series' history, at the age of 62 (beating the previous record set by Lewis Gilbert, who directed Moonraker at the age of 59). Campbell stated that he was offered the opportunity to direct further James Bond films after Goldeneye, but found the plot to be limiting and only viewed himself directing further films if working with a new Bond actor - as he subsequently did with Daniel Craig on Casino Royale.^[2]

He also directed two Zorro films, The Mask of Zorro (1998) and The Legend of Zorro (2005), both starring Antonio Banderas and Catherine Zeta-Jones. Campbell also directed the 2011 film adaptation of the DC Comics superhero Green Lantern. Campbell also directed The Foreigner (2017), starring Jackie Chan. ^[3]

On television Campbell directed the film Cast a Deadly Spell^[4] and had overseen some of the more action-oriented episodes from the TV series The Professionals (1977–1983); however, his best-known work is the 1985 BBC Television drama serial Edge of Darkness, for which he won the British Academy Television Award for Best Director in 1986. Campbell has also directed a movie remake of Edge of Darkness, starring Mel Gibson and Ray Winstone, and released in 2010. Campbell directed the first episode of the US TV series Last Resort.

Filmography[edit]

Films[edit]

• The Sex Thief (1973)
• Three for All (1975)
• Eskimo Nell (1975)
• Intimate Games (1976, Uncredited)
• Criminal Law (1988)
• Defenseless (1991)
• No Escape (1994)
• GoldenEye (1995)
• The Mask of Zorro (1998)
• Vertical Limit (2000)
• Beyond Borders (2003)
• The Legend of Zorro (2005)
• Casino Royale (2006)
• Edge of Darkness (2010)
• Green Lantern (2011)
• Reckless (2013)
• Warriors (2014)
• The Foreigner (2017)
• The Asset (2021)

Television[edit]

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• The Professionals (1978–1980; 5 episodes)
• Minder (1980; 2 episodes)
• Shoestring (1980; 1 episode)
• Reilly: The Ace of Spies (1983; 6 episodes)
• Charlie (1984 4-part miniseries)
• Edge of Darkness (1985; 6-part miniseries)
• Screen Two (1986; 1 episode 'Frankie and Johnnie')
• Cast a Deadly Spell (1991)
• Homicide: Life On The Street (1993; 1 episode Three Men and Adena)
• 10-8: Officers on Duty (2003; 1 episode)
• Last Resort (2012; 1 episode)

See also[edit]

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References[edit]

1. ^Nair, Drishya (19 June 2011). 'Martin Campbell says director Forster messed up 'Quantum of Solace''. International Business Times. Retrieved 14 December 2018.
2. ^'What Would Bring Goldeneye And Casino Royale's Director Back To James Bond'. Cinema Blend. 3 October 2017. Retrieved 1 September 2020.
3. ^'Birds Remake Director Martin Campbell Flies the Coop'. DreadCentral.
4. ^J. O'Connor, John (10 September 1991). 'Review/Television; A Detective and Sci-Fi In Los Angeles Magic'. The New York Times.

External links[edit]

• Martin Campbell on IMDb