 Following the 1967 adaptation , the rights to the film remained with Columbia Films until 1989 when the studio , and the rights to their intellectual property portfolio was acquired by the Japanese company Sony . In 1999 , following legal action between Sony Pictures Entertainment and MGM / UA , Sony traded the rights to Casino Royale for MGM 's partial @-@ rights to Spider @-@ Man . This led to Eon Productions making the 2006 film Casino Royale . The film stars Daniel Craig as Bond , supported by Eva Green as Vesper Lynd and Mads Mikkelsen as Le Chiffre ; Judi Dench returned for her fifth Bond film as Bond 's superior , M. Casino Royale is a reboot , showing Bond at the beginning of his career as a 00 @-@ agent and overall stays true to the original novel . 
