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[zencat]

Some disappointing news for us book collectors...

No poster art for U.S. Casino Royale tie-in

But maybe the UK edition will use poster art.

Now on the CBn main page...

Casino Royale US Tie-In Will Not Feature Poster Artwork

_{Using 2002 US Penguin cover}

[Mister Asterix]

[mra]Shame.

They should have contacted me, and I

[zencat]

One wonders why they didn't go with the teaser poster? The last few novelizations have used the teasers.

[JimmyBond]

I wonder what's taking so long to get the official poster out? Perhaps they're taking their time and crafting an excellent one.

[zencat]

Is the image of Bond outside the Casino the official poster, or a second teaser?

[Loomis]

I'm sure it's the second teaser (if that - may simply be a bit of artwork for the website), but not a final poster. Still a little too early for that. Anyway, I don't think it would really work as a final poster - not "busy" enough, if you see what I mean. A final poster needs a few more faces (Green, Mikkelsen, Murino and, of course, Dench), and some explosions, cars and so forth.

I write a final poster, as opposed to the final poster, 'cause if memory serves the US and the UK had very different final DAD posters. The American one was just Brosnan and Berry against a blue background, while us Brits were treated to a poster that had much more going on. May be wrong, though, but that's how I remember it.

[K1Bond007]

Seems like a BS excuse. They could have easily used the teaser poster with Daniel that has been out since at least May. Just silly. Oh well.

[zencat]

Seems like a BS excuse. They could have easily used the teaser poster with Daniel that has been out since at least May. Just silly. Oh well.

It does seem a little strange. Maybe they would need to create a new mass market size version and it just wasn't worth the cost. Cheaper to add a line to the current trade size edition. I didn't want to press. They were cool enough to give me this answer, so...

[K1Bond007]

Seems like a BS excuse. They could have easily used the teaser poster with Daniel that has been out since at least May. Just silly. Oh well.

It does seem a little strange. Maybe they would need to create a new mass market size version and it just wasn't worth the cost. Cheaper to add a line to the current trade size edition. I didn't want to press. They were cool enough to give me this answer, so...

Yeah, they were probably like "Oh it's that John fella.. just make up something." -- (on phone) "Uhh noo.. because.. it's uhh we uhh didn't get the poster material in time... okay? Talk to you..<sigh> later.."

You would think it would be okay to release it a little later though. I mean Casino Royale is already on bookshelves and a "Soon to be ..." is hardly eye catching and probably won't do much of anything for them. Having a completely different cover with Craig on the cover though, that's different.

[zencat]

Seems like a BS excuse. They could have easily used the teaser poster with Daniel that has been out since at least May. Just silly. Oh well.

It does seem a little strange. Maybe they would need to create a new mass market size version and it just wasn't worth the cost. Cheaper to add a line to the current trade size edition. I didn't want to press. They were cool enough to give me this answer, so...

Yeah, they were probably like "Oh it's that John fella.. just make up something." -- (on phone) "Uhh noo.. because.. it's uhh we uhh didn't get the poster material in time... okay? Talk to you..<sigh> later.."

Hehe. Hey, man, I'll take what I can get! Some publishers just don't answer my emails. Can't tell you how many emails I've sent to Miramax asking if they're going to be publishing Young Bond 3. I'm keeping the pressure on.

[JCRendle]

Why wouldn't they publish it?

[zencat]

Why wouldn't they publish it?

Miramax only bought the rights to the first two Young Bond novels; SilverFin and Blood Fever. Are they going to renew and stay in the Young Bond business, or will IFP find a new U.S. publisher? It's a real question mark at this point.

[Simon]

Is the image of Bond outside the Casino the official poster, or a second teaser?

Ah, one of my many times unanswered questions on the thread that this pertains to.

I think the jury is still out on that one.

I think, in times past, the website has actually sat up and said, 'this is the next poster - see it in your theatres soon' sort of deal, hence my question in absence of this.

Anyway, time will tell.

[Qwerty]

Would have been yet another cool Bond book release this year.

Ah well.

[J J]

Perhaps they are afraid that with the DC poster image people don't recognize it as a James Bond novel...

[K1Bond007]

I'm surprised it took so long for someone to crack that joke.

[Qwerty]

Now on the CBn main page...

Casino Royale US Tie-In Will Not Feature Poster Artwork

_{Using 2002 US Penguin cover}

[zencat]

I'm surprised it took so long for someone to crack that joke.

It did cross my mind that this could be spun into an anti-Craig story by the "still-can't-get-over-the-fact-that-Pierce-Brosnan-isn't-Bond-even-after-two-fantastic-trailers-and-incresingly-good-buzz-indicating-this-might-be-the-best-Bond film-in-decades" crowd. But I think those types of stories have become pretty transparent.

[Double-O Eleven]

I'm kind of bummed about this, from the collector's standpoint. It's nice to have a movie-tie in as a nostalgic reminder years later of when a movie came out. From a financial standpoint, a tie-in is more likely to sell to the general non-Fleming reading public because the cover is an instant draw (easy to recognize when scanning over a bookshelf.) On the other hand, I think the current retro-cover is a better introduction to the unusual Cold War world of the novel to an unfamiliar reader. And it is such a cool cover.

Edited by Double-O Eleven, 13 September 2006 - 08:23 PM.

[dinovelvet]

Seems kind of straightforward to me. I guess the idea is that newcomers who pick up the CR novel will read it and think "Hey, this is pretty good, what else has this Flemmmmming bloke written?" and go pick up the rest of them - SO when he has all of the books, they all have the cool retro cover art, except CR which is now the odd one out.

But in regards to the poster itself, I do think it IS the final poster, as they are using it for ad banners at sites like youtube and Coming Soon. There may be some tweaking to it (like maybe adding Vesper in the background), but to me the poster suggests the kind of "new" Bond attitude they're looking to convey with CR.

[tdalton]

I'm disappointed to hear that there won't be a poster (or any artwork at all related to the film) on the re-issue of Casino Royale. But, I'd rather have the Penguin cover again with the tagline "Now a major motion picture from Sony" (or whatever it would say) as opposed to having the new, and rather mediocre and bland, final poster on the cover of the book.

[Andrew]

This is a shame. I think that the teaser poster would've been PERFECT for the cover to the novel.

My guess is that they're probably afraid that people will read it and be disappointed that there's no free-running scene or chase at MIA while it has the poster of the film that features those scenes. Or they're simply scared to market Craig but I think that's something we don't need to worry about anymore.

[Byron]

I'm disappointed too. I was looking forward to buying a tie in no matter what the cover art (i like all 3 posters released).

Adding the small line "soon to be a major motion picture" on the existing cover is extremely lame.

Shame on you Penguin, shame!

[zencat]

Here's the final US art (blurb has been revised to read: "Now A Major Motion Picture").

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[Righty007]

Here's the final US art (blurb has been revised to read: "Now A Major Motion Picture").

I have one exactly like that minus the cute sticker. Thanks, Penguin.

[Loomis]

"Now A Major Motion Picture"

A bit of a dated expression, that, although it was presumably worded that way to chime with the "retro" cover. Still, I don't see what would have been wrong with using a photo of Craig or one of the posters instead - it'd sell rather more copies, surely? And they used a pic of Matt Damon on the cover of a tie-in reissue of Ludlum's THE BOURNE SUPREMACY, even though the book is nothing like the film (and it's been done before many times with Bond, too, e.g. the Moore movie artwork on an edition of THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN, which novel is hardly very similar to the *ahem* motion picture).

Strange. Oh, well, their loss (of my money). With a film-related cover I'd definitely have bought yet another copy of CASINO ROYALE. Now, no way, Jose.

[zencat]

"Now A Major Motion Picture"

A bit of a dated expression, that, although it was presumably worded that way to chime with the "retro" cover. Still, I don't see what would have been wrong with using a photo of Craig or one of the posters instead - it'd sell rather more copies, surely? And they used a pic of Matt Damon on the cover of a tie-in reissue of Ludlum's THE BOURNE SUPREMACY, even though the book is nothing like the film (and it's been done before many times with Bond, too, e.g. the Moore movie artwork on an edition of THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN, which novel is hardly very similar to the *ahem* motion picture).

Strange. Oh, well, their loss (of my money). With a film-related cover I'd definitely have bought yet another copy of CASINO ROYALE. Now, no way, Jose.

It is strange, but like I said in my article on YBD, it isn't a first. In fact, it was typical during the '80s. And maybe we'll still get poster art on a UK edition - I hope.

[Qwerty]

Here's the final US art (blurb has been revised to read: "Now A Major Motion Picture").

I have one exactly like that minus the cute sticker. Thanks, Penguin.

Yeah.

I love the way they handled the cover for the German Casino Royale tie-in novel. A fantastic one.

[zencat]

Just got my US CR tie-in edition. One surprise is the book is not the trade size paperback like the original, but a mass market size paperback. Looks pretty cool this way, and matches my other tie-in editions on the shelf nicely.

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[Qwerty]

Picked mine up yesterday as well. Was surprised to see it in the normal mass market size, but I suppose that is to be expected.

Now just for the UK edition to arrive...