New James Bond film: How many people does Daniel Craig have to kill in Spectre to become the deadliest Bond?
As speculation mounts about the new release of new James Bond flick Spectre, whose trailer is due to be unveiled tonight, you’re probably still trying to get over the carnage of Skyfall, which left 26 people dead and countless others maimed and heartbroken.
But how deadly is James Bond? And more to the point, based on Daniel Craig’s past form, how much violence can we expect from the next installment?
We've set out in gory detail how many anonymous henchmen and evil masterminds have been knocked off since 1962, when Sean Connery felled four bad guys en-route to thwarting Dr. No.
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Who is the deadliest Bond? As the argument goes with war, the more advanced the weaponry, the more mayhem can be wreaked with it. Piers Brosnan got futuristic tools by the BMW-load in his reign as Bond: his body-count reached an eye-watering 135.
Craig, quietly psychopathic, has dispatched 53, while Connery and Roger Moore had their work cut out: Connery had to think of a pithy epitaph (“Shocking”) 72 times and Moore 90.
But what about poor George Lazenby, who was only allowed to tux-up once? To give him a fair analysis, we should break down kills by film.
And there you have it, Pierce Brosnan was by far the deadliest Bond: but he did have the advantage of some preposterous scripts and storylines and an invisible car. Craig has some catching up to do; he needs to knock off 82 just to get even with Brosnan.