This was the third time Fleming's Casino Royale had been adapted for the screen. Based on Ian Fleming's first novel, published in 1953, the film sees Bond obtain his licence to kill before setting out to foil the plans of Le Chiffre, a terrorist financier, with the help of treasury agent Vesper Lynd. In 2006 James Bond was back in the twenty-first instalment of the spy series: Casino Royale.
