Why is 'Casino Royale' the only James Bond movie to be made twice?

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Because most young viewers are out of touch with the beginning of the series and it needs new ideas to establish new charactrers and potentially to remake previous Bond films to a more current viewer. The film is a reboot, establishing a new timeline and narrative framework not meant to precede or succeed any previous Bond film.[2] This allowed the film to show a less experienced and more vulnerable Bond[3] and therefore for the first time in the series the characters of Miss Moneypenny and Q do not appear. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casino_Royale_(2006_film) The term reboot, in media dealing with serial fiction, means to discard much or even all previous continuity in the series and start anew with fresh ideas.[1] Effectively, all established fictive history is declared by the writer(s) to be null and void, or at least irrelevant to the new storyline, and the series starts over as if brand-new.[1] Through reboots, film franchises are revamped and reinvigorated to attract new fans and stimulate economic revenue.[1] Therefore, reboots can be seen as attempts to rescue franchises which have grown "stale".[2] They can also be a "safe" project for a studio, as a reboot with an established fan base is less risky (in terms of expected profit) than an original work http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reboot_(continuity) Dec 22 10, 10:36 AM