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Hello, dear listeners!

Friends, it\u2019s all about branding and marketability. As avid fans of James Bond and Ian Fleming, you are all undoubtedly aware of how publishing houses and the film studios keep pumping out re-issues of the films or the original Fleming novels. A sexy new cover! A new forward from a celebrated author! A new featurette on the blu-ray disc! This new \u2018definitive\u2019 edition comes with a digital copy of the film that you may redeem on the streaming library of your choice (pending deals studios have previously set up with given streaming service platforms, copyright bla bla bla\u2026)! Did someone say  \u2018\u2018steelbook?\u2019\u2019 Oooh!

You buy them, as do hosts Mathieu and Edgar. And this got them thinking. How do we squeeze as much juice as possible out the Bond films and get away scott free whilst actually talking about something we\u2019ve already produced an entire episode on?!?

Welcome to the Reloaded series.

The Reloaded series offers Matt and Edgar to take a second look at a movie they reviewed earlier in the show\u2019s history when they hadn\u2019t quite found their stride yet and were limiting themselves as much as possible to single part episodes for the film reviews. The structure might vary slightly from entry to entry. For example this first entry is for Casino Royale, which we not only talked about way back in Feb 2018, but also in October in 2018 for the CR in Concert event, and this past summer on our French-language show. Given that this is the 4th discussion on the film, we\u2019re looking at it from different angles.

What wild theories can Matt\u2019s creative mind concoct to tie the film in with the other Craig movies? How was the film marketed back in the summer and fall of 2006? What were Matt and Edgar\u2019s personal experiences seeing the film in cinemas, long before they knew each other and the podcast was but a twinkle in their mind\u2019s eye? What behind juicy behind the scenes tidbits can they regale the listeners who don\u2019t have books like Some Kind of Hero or The James Bond Archives?

Will every Reloaded entry take this route?  Perhaps, perhaps not, but this is what we\u2019re going for CR, to give it it\u2019s due.

You know, the final \u2018\u2019definitive\u2019\u2019 review of the movie*

*We\u2019ll see about that.