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Copied from Wikipedia:
"Casino Royale is the first James Bond novel by author Ian Fleming. It would eventually pave the way for 11 other novels by Fleming himself in addition to 2 short story anthologies, followed by many 'continuation' Bond novels by other authors."
For starters this movie can't be a prequal because the current "M" is in it, the original "M" was a male. Second it take place in modern times. Third this is going down as BOND 21, so its part of the normal series.
Also I don't know were this comment about the other Bond stories were made-up for the movies, all of the Bond films up until "The Spy Who Loved Me" were all based on Ian's novels, the only thing that was used in this movie was the title. Then everything after "The Living Daylights" starting with "Licence to Kill" were stories for the movies with no novel influence to the story.
This is alittle bit off topic but has anyone ever noticed that whenever Bond is on TV they never show the movies in order like they do for other series. I guess some people don't know that these movies do carry elements over from the previous film. For example, "From Russia With Love", at the beginning of the movie Bond is with the Brunet that he hooked-up with in the Casino in "Dr. No" and in a meeting the SPECTER agaents make references to the death of Dr. No. In "You Only Live Twice" Bond finaly goes head to head with Blofield who is the leader of SPECTER. After not catching him Bond is still chaseing Blofield in "On Her Majesty's Secrect Service", at the end Blowfield kills Bond's wife. This storyline is concluded in "Diamonds are Forever" with Bond finaly defeating Blofield.
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