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Casino Royale Region 1 DVD Artwork Revealed

To be released on 13 March

Here it is

http://www.sphe.nl/sony/media/thumbnails/184x260/5980.jpg

This is the Holland sleeve, and it is said the french belgium version will be the same.

We can guess the others regions will have about the same sleeve. They are usually standart worldwide, give or take a couple of logos.

I give that one a solid "meh".

Far too much grey for my liking.

Agreed. Although I think that it is the best variation on the final poster that we were given, I never did like any of the posters that were released after the teaser poster with Craig at the poker table.

Hmm seems a bit bland. Will be interesting to see if the Ultimate Edition design is incorporated into the covers of the DVDs.

It seems a bit....randomn? I mean, the U.S. never saw that poster, so putting it on the U.S. DVD would be pointless. I doubt that's the cover art for the whole world. I think the U.S. will get a different one.

It looks alright on the book on, should be ok.

No actually, that's not true at all. I don't know about Bond films, but just about every R1 and R2 DVD every made in the history of the universe has had different DVD cover art-- sometimes drastically different.

I would have preferred had Casino Royale appeared in the background rather than in Vesper's shadow... The grey background bugs me, but otherwise it works. Let's hope they'll change it around if a special edition comes out! The best poster is the one w/Vesper standing in the back w/her hair down and she's wearing the black dress. Have stumbled upon quite a few variations w/Bond in the same pose, but that one is my favorite by far.

Personally, I hope that is the sleeve used in Region 1. The UE's are better than the first set but they're still not great. And anything, ANYTHING is better than the dreaded 'floating heads' with critics quotes that ruin so many DVD covers.
I say, lob the poster on and have done with it. I'm buying the sodding thing, I don't need to know who's in it or what Zoo magazine thought of it.

Will be interesting to see how close (or how different) the Region 1 cover is to that one.

I would have preferred a UE DVD cover design.

It's good, anyway.

Where is it said that this is official?

And I highly doubt that this will be the R1 cover since we didn't get this poster or anything.

I agree it seems a little bland. I always thought the special edition or ultimate edition styles were out of the question anyways (the SE design is about 8 years old anyway, and I get the impression the ultimate edition range will only stretch to the existing "classic bond" collection - ie not including this new incarnation / the reboot.)

so ultimatly I expected a very unique and sony incfluenced design, and infact suspected a port from a poster, but this poster (and the DVD cover they made from it) is easily the ugly sister of the group, now if they'd used the teaser with Craig sat at the poker table with his PPK it would be a completely different story

This post has been edited by shady ginzo: 10 January 2007 - 20:18

Agreed. The advertisement for the Blu-Ray version of Casino Royale that someone posted a few weeks ago that featured the teaser-poster artwork looked very good. I think that it looked much better as a DVD/Blu-Ray cover than this artwork does.