• Pre-production work for this film began before Casino Royale (2006) started filming.
  • In an interview with Jonathan Ross, Casino Royale (2006) director Martin Campbell hinted that Bond 22 would be a sort of follow on to Casino Royale, stating that it would be part 2 of a 2-part story and thus expecting there to be a small a gap as possible between the release of the 2 films.
  • South African movie maker Roger Michell walked away from the chance to take charge of his first James Bond film after talks with producers fell through. “Creative differences” prompted the South African to give up on the project.

The movie was originally scheduled to be released during 2007 to take advantage of releasing a 007 movie during a year ending by 007.