History Trivia / CasinoRoyale1967

* ScrewedByTheLawyers / ChannelHop: Creator/ColumbiaPictures lost the rights to the film after they got entangled in a lawsuit by MGM/UA and Eon Productions (they wanted to make a rival Bond series, holding already the rights to ''Casino Royale'' and allying with Kevin [=McClory=], who helped with ''Film/{{Thunderball}}''), trading them and the book rights for the ones MGM held to Franchise/SpiderMan (which then [[Film/SpiderManTrilogy became]] Columbia's own CashCowFranchise before it stalled in 2014 and prompted them to integrate it into Disney/Marvel's [[Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse MCU]]).

* DuelingMovies: It was released in the same year as an official Bond, ''Film/YouOnlyLiveTwice''. This duel affected the official release to the point where it became one of the factors in the long and bitter Broccoli/McClory legal feud that started a decade later and only fully ended in 2013, 7 years after McClory's death.
* FranchiseKiller: This one Bond spoof's critical and popular thrashing and [[MisBlamed EON getting the blame for it]] [[ScrewedByTheLawyers convinced them to go hard after anything even remotely resembling James Bond,]] which became a HUGH problem with Kevin McClory 10 years later. Only Creator/MikeMyers's ''Film/AustinPowers'' series has been able to skirt by this.

* DuelingMovies: It was released in the same year as an official Bond, ''Film/YouOnlyLiveTwice''.

* ScrewedByTheLawyers / ChannelHop: Creator/ColumbiaPictures lost the rights to the film after they got entangled in a lawsuit by MGM/UA and Eon Productions (they wanted to make a rival Bond series, holding already the rights to ''Casino Royale'' and allying with Kevin [=McClory=], who helped with ''Film/{{Thunderball}}''), trading them and the book rights for the ones MGM held to Franchise/SpiderMan (which then [[Film/SpiderManTrilogy became]] Columbia's own CashCowFranchise).

* BillingDisplacement: Creator/PeterSellers signed on back when the film was serious. At that point, it was intended to be a vehicle for [[spoiler:Creator/DavidNiven]]. Much rewriting and scene-stealing later, Sellers actually ends up with top billing alongside Ursula Andress.
** This wouldn't be [[Film/ThePinkPanther the first time Sellers entirely stole what was intended to be a vehicle for Niven.]]

* CreatorKiller: A sadly literal instance. The stress of making the film caused producer Charles K. Feldman to develop heart problems, which claimed his life just two years after its release.

* HeyItsThatGuy: Bernard "[[Series/DoctorWho Wilf]]" Cribbins is the cab driver.

* TroubledProduction: Not only an obscene number of directors and screenwriters got involved, but the actors fought with them.
** And the actors fought with each other -- the reason that Evelyn Tremble and Le Chiffre are not seen in the same shot during the Baccarat scene is that when they tried to get Creator/PeterSellers and Creator/OrsonWelles in the same studio, Sellers balked. He felt that Welles was not taking the scene seriously (remember that Sellers had wanted the movie to be the straight adaptation he was promised and was increasingly [[BerserkButton enraged]] over the continual slide into wacky parody the script was taking). Sellers was also an extremely superstitious man and took exception to Welles performing magic tricks during shooting, and finally refused to appear at the same time with Welles, forcing their lines to be shot at separate times.

* ScrewedByTheLawyers / ChannelHop: Creator/ColumbiaPictures lost the rights to the film after they got entangled in a lawsuit by MGM/UA and Eon Productions (as they wanted to make a rival Bond series as they held the rights to ''Casino Royale'' and allied with Kevin [=McClory=], who helped with ''Film/{{Thunderball}}''), trading them and the book rights for the ones MGM held to Franchise/SpiderMan (which then [[Film/SpiderManTrilogy became]] Columbia's own CashCowFranchise).

* ScrewedByTheLawyers \ ChannelHop: Creator/ColumbiaPictures lost the rights to the film after they got entangled in a lawsuit by MGM/UA and Eon Productions (as they wanted to make a rival Bond series as they held the rights to ''Casino Royale'' and allied with Kevin [=McClory=], who helped with ''Film/{{Thunderball}}''), trading them and the book rights for the ones MGM held to Franchise/SpiderMan (which then [[Film/SpiderManTrilogy became]] Columbia's own CashCowFranchise).

** And the actors fought with each other -- the reason that Evelyn Tremble and Le Chiffre are not seen in the same shot during the Baccarat scene is that when they tried to get Creator/PeterSellers and Creator/OrsonWelles in the same studio, Sellers balked. He felt that Welles was not taking the scene seriously (remember that Sellers had wanted the movie to be the straight adaptation he was promised and was increasingly [[BerserkButton enraged]] over the continual slide into wacky parody the script was taking). Sellers was also an extremely superstitious man and took exception to Welles performing magic tricks during shooting, and finally refused to appear at the same time with Welles, forcing their lines to be shot at seperate times.

* StarDerailingRole: Proved to be this for PeterSellers, starting a downward trajectory for his career that lasted eight years before a CareerResurrection.

** And the actors fought with each other -- the reason that Evelyn Tremble and Le Chiffre are not seen in the same shot during the Baccarat scene is that when they tried to get PeterSellers and OrsonWelles in the same studio, Sellers balked. He felt that Welles was not taking the scene seriously (remember that Sellers had wanted the movie to be the straight adaptation he was promised and was increasingly [[BerserkButton enraged]] over the continual slide into wacky parody the script was taking). Sellers was also an extremely superstitious man and took exception to Welles performing magic tricks during shooting, and finally refused to appear at the same time with Welles, forcing their lines to be shot at seperate times.

** A less lethal instance happened to all of the film's directors except for JohnHuston. All of them had fairly distinguished careers prior to working on this film, but none of them had anywhere near the same success afterwards. Probably the worst affected was Val Guest; after word got out that he had taken over as the primary director late in production, he got unfairly blamed for the resulting mess and was reduced to directing [[AwfulBritishSexComedy Awful British Sex Comedies]] for the rest of his career.

* ScrewedByTheLawyers \ ChannelHop: Creator/ColumbiaPictures lost the rights to the film after they got entangled in a lawsuit by MGM/UA and Eon Productions (as they wanted to make a rival Bond series as they held the rights to ''Casino Royale'' and allied with Kevin [=McClory=], who helped with ''{{Thunderball}}''), trading them and the book rights for the ones MGM held to {{Spider-Man}} (which then [[SpiderManTrilogy became]] Columbia's own CashCowFranchise).

* ScrewedByTheLawyers: Creator/ColumbiaPictures lost the rights to the film after they got entangled in a lawsuit between Kevin [=McClory=] and MGM/UA (who were backed by the [[IanFleming Fleming]] estate). MGM/UA now holds the film rights to this and the [[Film/CasinoRoyale 2006 adaptation]] (which, ironically, is co-owned by Columbia).

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** In addition to Ursula Andress & Burt Kwouk, another MGM Bond movie alum is in the cast; "Le Chiffre's Representative" is played by the late Vladek Shybal, who also played SPECTRE [[TheChessmaster chessmaster]] Kronsteen in FromRussiaWithLove.

* In addition to Ursula Andress & Burt Kwouk, another MGM Bond movie alum is in the cast; "Le Chiffre's Representative" is played by the late Vladek Shybal, who also played SPECTRE [[TheChessmaster chessmaster]] Kronsteen in FromRussiaWithLove.

** And the actors fought with each other -- the reason that Evelyn Tremble and Le Chiffre are not seen in the same shot during the Baccarat scene is that when they tried to get PeterSellers and OrsonWelles in the same studio, Sellers balked. He felt that Welles was not taking the scene seriously (remember that Sellers had wanted the movie to be the straight adaptation he was promised and was increasingly [[BerserkButton enraged]] over the continual slide into wacky parody the script was taking)especially taking exception to Welles performing magic tricks during shooting and finally refused to appear at the same time with Welles, forcing their lines to be shot at seperate times.
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* ScrewedByTheLawyers: Creator/ColumbiaPictures lost the rights to the film after they got entangled in a lawsuit between Kevin [=McClory=] and MGM/UA (who were backed by the [[IanFleming Fleming]] estate). MGM/UA now holds the film rights to this and the [[Film/CasinoRoyale2006 2006 adaptation]] (which, ironically, is co-owned by Columbia).

* ScrewedByTheLawyers: Creator/ColumbiaPictures lost the rights to the film after they got entangled in a lawsuit between Kevin McClory and MGM/UA (who were backed by the [[IanFleming Fleming]] estate). MGM/UA now holds the film rights to this and the [[Film/CasinoRoyale2006 2006 adaptation]] (which, ironically, is co-owned by Columbia).

** And the actors fought with each other -- the reason that Evelyn Tremble and Le Chiffre are not seen in the same shot during the Baccarat scene is that when they tried to get PeterSellars and OrsonWelles in the same studio, Sellers balked. He felt that Welles was not taking the scene seriously (remember that Sellers had wanted the movie to be the straight adaptation he was promised and was increasingly [[BerserkButton enraged]] over the continual slide into wacky parody the script was taking)especially taking exception to Welles performing magic tricks during shooting and finally refused to appear at the same time with Welles, forcing their lines to be shot at seperate times.

* StarDerailingRole: Proved to be this for Peter Sellers, starting a downward trajectory for his career that lasted eight years before a CareerResurrection.

* TroubledProduction: Not only an obscene number of directors and screenwriters got involved, but the actors fought with them.