Terrorist chief rumoured as Casino Royale villain again
27-Nov-2005 • Casino Royale
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Daily Telegraph are echoing earlier reports that the villain of the next James Bond film, "Casino Royale", will be a terrorist leader.
With Daniel Craig now confirmed to play James Bond in next year's Casino Royale, I hear the film's producers have come up with a very modern villain for 007 to pit his wits against.
"Barbara Broccoli wants to work an Osama bin Laden-type character into the script," says my source. "In Ian Fleming's book, the main villain is a Russian agent called Le Chiffre. But in the film, they want to replace Le Chiffre with a wealthy Islamic fundamentalist who provides funding for terrorism."
The producers had originally coined the idea for the previous Bond film, Die Another Day.
"The last film was going to feature a baddie called bin Sane," adds my source. "But it was deemed to be too soon after the 9/11 atrocities, so the character was canned."
Thanks to `Paul` for the alert.
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