Therefore, scenes were cut in addition to the constant rewrites going on too.In 2006, audiences around the world flocked to see Daniel Craig play James Bond for the first time, in an adaptation of Ian Fleming’s first novel, Casino Royale. One of Forster’s main visions was to have Quantum of Solace move ‘tight and fast – like a bullet’ as he viewed that Casino Royale’s length was too long.

Due to the Forster’s vision for the movie, it's likely that the script had to be altered to accommodate. The writer’s strike had resulted in inconsistencies that went against what Forster wanted to make. The rules where you couldn’t employ anyone as a writer, but the actor and director could work on scenes together. Me and the director were the ones who had to do it.

In an interview with Time Out, Craig remarked that 'There was me trying to rewrite scenes – and a writer I am not.

Forster’s time as director for Bond was chaotic as a result of this writer’s strike.įorster’s script had to be constantly altered and, due to the tight deadline, rewrites had to take place hours before scenes were filmed with both Forster and Craig writing just to make ends meet. Marc Forster had never watched any of the Bond movies aside from Casino Royale and, therefore, had never been particularly interested in pursuing the career as director for 007 until the movie’s release in 2006. However, one could also argue that the choice of director for Quantum of Solace also negatively impacted the movie. It is possible that this method of writing the script incredibly quickly in order to avoid the writer’s strike as well as the tight deadline affected the overall quality of the final product. According to Haggis, the script was completed two hours before the writer’s strike. The strike demanded that the writers, Paul Haggis and Robert Wade as well as Marc Forster who was the new director hired for the movie write the movie extremely quickly before the strike happened.

This was a reasonable decision however other external forces threatened the movie’s production even further: The Writer’s Guild of America Strike from 2007-2008.

Casino royale move script