Casino Royale Radio Drama (2007) - THE DIRECTOR'S CUT (2020)

https://circus13.com/james-bond-007-in-casino-royale-the-directors-cut/

Director’s Cut
This director’s cut seeks to come closer to the original vision for the show by stripping back the extensive/unnecessary narration sequences and removing the “audio book” element.  

Casino Royale was originally released February 19, 2007 to July 26, 2008 across six episodes lasting approximately two hours. This streamlined version consists of one 55-minute episode that I believe improves on the original and focuses more on being an audio drama, not an audio book.

After the release of Die Another Day and the announcement Casino Royale would be the next Bond film, I feared the last Fleming novel would get the same treatment. In 2005, I initiated pre-production on the audio drama, wanting to ensure there was a faithful adaptation. However, I may have been a little too faithful!

As the first show I had ever done, I had hoped for something more akin to traditional audio drama. However, it didn’t quite turn out that way. The finished product was, well, a little wordy! Large chunks of unnecessary narration from the Fleming novel resulted in a mix of half audio drama/half audio book.


What has changed?
The master recordings no longer exist, therefore, all edits had to be made to the final MP3’s already mixed which brought severe limitations. Some narrations could not be remove/paired down as it would have negatively impacted the story development. The major changes are the deletion of several narration scenes. Several scenes have been restructured. No new material was added with the exception of several new music cues to bridge some of the new edits.

Sound Quality
There are inconsistencies with the sound quality of the voice recordings and sound effects due to youthful inexperience. Unfortunately, as no master recordings remain, this could not be corrected.


P.S: A full high quality version will be streaming from Soundcloud approx. two weeks after the initial Circus 13 re-release which will allow for the highest quality version of the show available.

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