Random Movie Trivia - Casino Royale

Here is the next edition in our weekly Random Movie Trivia post.  Enjoy:

Casino Royale

• Daniel Craig actually rejected the part of James Bond a year before as he had felt that the series had settled into a standard formula. He changed his mind when he read the finished script.
• In the shower scene, Vesper was originally scripted to be wearing nothing but her underwear. Daniel Craig argued that Vesper would not have stopped to take her clothes off, and the scene was changed.
• In one afternoon's shooting, three Aston Martin DBS cars valued at $300,000 each were destroyed for the car roll sequence. The car barrel-roll stunt by the Aston Martin DBS broke the world record for the most barrel rolls assisted by a cannon.
• The way Bond orders his first vodka martini is lifted directly from the Ian Fleming novels.
• Daniel Craig gained 20 pounds of muscle for the role. Being in such prime condition was not new to the actor, as at one point he had been a semi-professional rugby player.
• Daniel Craig is the first actor to play James Bond who is younger than the series itself.
• It was a conscious decision to leave the semi-naked girls out of the opening credits as the James Bond persona is not effectively established until the end of the movie.
• Having Pierce Brosnan return for a fifth engagement as James Bond would have cost the producers $30 million.
• During 2004, Quentin Tarantino had suggested making a version of "Casino Royale" with Pierce Brosnan. Reportedly, Tarantino and Brosnan spoke publicly about this proposed project. When Brosnan was not rehired as Bond, Tarantino very publicly berated the producers and refused to have anything more to do with the project even though he was never attached to the picture at any time. He wanted Samuel L. Jackson as Felix Leiter and Uma Thurman as Bond Girl Vesper Lynd.
• First James Bond movie to be based on a full Ian Fleming novel since Moonraker (1979), a gap of 27 years.
• Some of the actors considered for the role of Bond were Julian McMahon, Hrithik Roshan, Dominic West and Gerard Butler. Most of them were deemed not appropriate to fit the role, while some others were nothing but media speculation. Goran Visnjic, Sam Worthington, Alex O'Loughlin and Rupert Friend were also considered, while Henry Cavillalmost got the part but was considered too young to play it. Hugh Jackman reportedly turned the role down.
• More coming next time.....

"It might have worked, but I like Daniel Craig better."