Wilson said the filmmakers went back to Ian Fleming’s first Bond book, 1953’s “Casino Royale,” and made a film in which the Bond character is lean and mean and relatively new to the double-O spy game. Using that starting point, we tried to figure out how we would make a first Bond film.”

We agreed that we needed to get back to basics, so we started with an assumption that no one had ever made a James Bond film before. “We all felt that we had strayed from our roots, and had gone too far with the gadgets and too fantastical with some of the stories in the most recent Bond films. Wilson, who co-produced the film with his stepsister, Barbara Broccoli, explained that Le Chiffre is a different kind of Bond villain because Craig’s 007 is a different kind of Bond. He becomes the main obstacle in my life, and I must become the main obstacle in his.” “He has made my life more difficult, and I have no choice but to go after him. I want to stay in the shadows and make my money, but Bond keeps dragging me into the spotlight. “I’m not playing a mad scientist,” Mikkelsen said from his home in Denmark. Bond is entered into the game to thwart Le Chiffre’s plan, and that really annoys the villain. Le Chiffre is a money launderer for terrorists who loses $100 million of their money in an attempted stock-market swindle, and tries to recoup the losses in a high-stakes Texas Hold ‘Em game. That is, until Bond interferes with his chance to make a few bucks. He isn’t even obsessed with killing secret agents. Unlike Goldfinger and other maniacal megalomaniacs that came before him, Le Chiffre has no designs on the world.

In “Casino Royale,” the 21st Bond adventure, British actor Daniel Craig, 38, is introduced as the latest James Bond, and Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen, 40, plays the villain known only as Le Chiffre (“The Cipher”).

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