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This article is from the James Bond FAQ, by Michael Reed reed55@core.com with numerous contributions by others.

17 Casino Royale - the movie

Fleming's first novel, "Casino Royale" was offered for film rights for $6000
and sold in 1956 to Gregory Ratoff. Later the rights were sold to producer
Charles K. Feldman for $75,000. In 1964, seeing the amazing success of EON,
Feldman approached Cubby Broccoli and Sean Connery about making "Casino
Royale" jointly. However, Connery asked for a cool million-dollar salary and
there was a dispute over production credits. No agreement came to pass.

So Feldman, armed with the legal right to the actual James Bond character
and situations of "Casino Royale", made a spoof of the Bond genre. The 1967
film is a disaster, despite the combined talents of David Niven, Peter
Sellers, Woody Allen, Ursula Andress, Orson Welles, Deborah Kerr, William
Holden and John Huston.

MGM obtained the rights to "Casino Royale" at the turn of the century.

 

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