PARIS: French actress Eva Green has been chosen as the latest femme fatale playing opposite British spy James Bond, in the film remake of Casino Royale already in production, the French newspaper Le Parisien/Aujourd’hui en France said on February 17. Green, 25, has already starred in several big-budget and big-name productions including Ridley Scott’s Kingdom of Heaven in 2004 and Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Dreamers in 2003.

In Casino Royale, she reprises a role played by Ursula Andress in the 1967 version, a spoof of the classic 007 espiona-ge adventure.

Danish actor Mads Mi-kkelsen was announced as the villain of Casino Royale by director Martin Campbell at a press conference in Prague. Producers said: “We are thrilled Eva and Mads have joined the cast of Casino Royale completing a first rate international cast.”