A wide range of actors came in, including Hugh Jackman, Sam Worthington, and Henry Cavill, but the final choice was Craig, who finally decided to come onboard when he saw that the script did not fall into the general formula that the franchise had fallen into. Fresh off receiving his 00 status, James is assigned the task of playing in a tense game of high stakes poker in order to stop a banker for terrorists from winning over $100 million.Īfter the complicated messes involved in casting the previous two Bonds, this one, at least on the front end, was relatively simplistic.
