* Pre-production work for this film began before Casino Royale (2006) started filming. * Daniel Craig, a fan of Marc Forster, recommended him to be the film's director. * 22nd official James Bond movie in the EON Productions franchise, the second to feature Daniel Craig as James Bond, the sixth to feature Judi Dench as M and it's the 25th James Bond movie overall. * Daniel Craig felt Casino Royale (2006) was physically "a walk in the park" compared to this film; his training was extremely ......

This was the first Bond film to be based on one of Ian Fleming's short stories (instead of one of his novels). Interestingly, there are several scenes in this film lifted from other Fleming tales. Examples: The assault on the smugglers' boat and warehouse is lifted intact from a short story entitled "Risico", and the sequence featuring Bond and Melina being dragged through the coral is actually lifted from the climax from the book, "Live and Let Die". The Identigraph appeared in slightly different form in the book, "Goldfinger". The license plate number of the black Everflex top white Rolls-Royce Silver ......