By the time the line is thrown away in Casino Royale, audiences already know that Daniel Craig's Bond is somebody new. The old "shaken, not stirred" was a classic of Bond movies, one of the lines fans had come to expect in every outing for the super spy. What was the fucking point? So I’d rather have just one and gone, ‘Okay, swing and a miss. Because what I could not do, and what I refused to do, was repeat what had gone before. One of the biggest reasons I did Casino Royale is the line, ‘A vodka martini, please.’ ‘Shaken or stirred?’ My reply was written in the script as, ‘Do I look like I give a fuck?’ And that’s it. Daniel Craig told Empire there was a single line in the original script that convinced him to take the part, because it showed he could take the role to a different place. Ian Fleming's original James Bond novel, Casino Royale was to be adapted but from the outset it was clear this would be a different James Bond. Part of the plan for the new James Bond was a sort of soft reboot to the character that would take him back to the beginning.
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