Casino Royale, although a send-up, was actually an 'official' Bond film as Ian Fleming had already sold the screen rights to the book before he signed the deal with Salzman and Broccoli for the other stories. Unable to interest them in a partnership, American producer Charles K. Feldman decided to turn it into a spoof on the Bond films where various actors play the part of Bond during the many, almost episodic, skits and sequences in a very confused storyline bearing little relation to Fleming's original book.