Quote Originally Posted by eestlinc
is it a remake of the <a href=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061452/>original</a> Casino Royale? It looks like it's some sort of modern day adaptation without the comedy. I doubt it will be better than the original with Peter Sellers, Woody Allen and Orson Welles, among others.
The original '60s one was supposed to be based off the Ian Fleming novel, I believe, and just took a different spin on it from the normal Bond films - going for a parody rather than being a straight Bond flick.

So this is based off the novel in a stricter sense than that one was. There's more info in the trivia section to give the specifics about it.