🥷
💡
💡 Fun Facts
💡

James Bond played baccarat in the original Casino Royale novel (1953). The 2006 film adaptation changed the card game to Texas hold em, which was much more relatable to modern audiences and required more skill.

•1 min read


Fun Fact: James Bond played baccarat in the original Casino Royale novel (1953). The 2006 film adaptation changed the card game to Texas hold ’em, which was much more relatable to modern audiences and required more skill.

Source favicon

Source

polygon.com

Share this fascinating fact! 🥷

Share on XDiscover more facts

💡More Fun Facts

Keep exploring and learning

that the James Bond Movies The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker strayed so far from Ian Fleming s novels that Eon Productions authorized the screenwriter for both, Christopher Wood, to write novelizations based upon the films, rather than promote the original novels.

Read →

For the 2002 DVD release of “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial,” Steven Spielberg made some alterations to the original movie. He swapped out the agents’ guns for walkie-talkies and changed the word “terrorist” to “hippie”. This caused many to accuse Spielberg of “cleaning up” the film.

Read →

The first Toy Story film (1995) required 800,000 machine hours and 114,240 frames of animation in total, divided between 1,561 shots that totaled over 77 minutes. Pixar was able to render less than 30 seconds of the film per day.

Read →

about a Brazilian Con artist called Carlos Kaiser, who had a decade long career as a Football player, and managed to sign for multiple teams, without player even one regular game. The one time he almost had to play, he started a fight during, to get a Red Card, avoiding to actually play.

Read →

the painting Woman in Gold was stolen by the Nazis from its Jewish owners in 1941 and displayed at the Galerie Belvedere in Austria. The gallery refused to return the art to their original owners and in 2006 after a 7 year legal claim which included a hearing in front of SCOTUS, it was returned

Read →

Geir Helgemo, the world s #1 Bridge player of 2018, had all his credentials taken away after it was revealed that he had used two drugs to increase his testosterone even though performance enhancers wouldn t had effected his ability to play the card game.

Read →
Explore All Fun Facts