The screenplay for the film is basically very good: it follows the original novel pretty faithfully, especially in the middle part of the film. Other actors were also chosen well: Eva Green (Vesper Lynd) and Mads Mikkelsen (Le Chiffre) were great, too. Craig was cool, and he was almost as good as Sean Connery. Daniel Craig, despite of having a lighter tinted hair than other, earlier Bonds, was definitely great choice: he took Bond to the roots: the character was now darker and colder, just like Timothy Dalton portrayed him already in the 1980’s, but also complex.
But, in 2006, they finally did it: Casino Royale, the film that introduces 007, Bond, James Bond. What they did then exactly, was to go straight to Spectre, with introducing one of it’s members, Dr.
EON didn’t do Casino Royale in the 1962, which would have been a great idea to do by then. After three Bond-films, those after GoldenEye, starring Pierce Brosnan, it was a good idea to start over, with a new Bond, Daniel Craig.