It was time for a reboot.Īnd who better to reboot bond for the 00s than the man who’d brought Bond into the post-Soviet world of the 90s: Martin Campbell. Bond beginsīy 2006, Paul Greengrass had taken over the Bourne franchise. Stealing everything he could from other movies too. He passed this on to Campbell who did the same. Baird had worked on Maverick, where the director Richard Donner had filmed everything over and over from every angle. One of the tricks was shooting enormous amounts of coverage. Everybody was terribly worried that people would be bored with it.” the editor, Stuart Baird said. “It was difficult to think, how you keep the audience engaged in those card games. But the amount of poker in the Casino Royale script was worrisome. How do you go from that to ten guys sat quietly around a table?Ĭampbell had previously directed a short baccarat scene for Bond in Goldeneye. And he’s gone toe-to-toe at knifepoint with one terrorist, before hunting another to an explosive climax on the tarmac of Miami airport. The two Antonio Banderas Zorro movies and Vertical Limit.īy the time we get to the game in Montenegro, Bond has parkoured across Kampala. Since Campbell last directed Bond he’d done a number of hi-octane action flicks. To celebrate, Polygon tracked director Martin Campbell, and some of the crew to their lairs and asked them shooting the poker scenes. It’s been fourteen years and some small-change since Casino Royale hit screens.
