Mind-blowing James Bond facts by numbers!
Ever wondered how many villains he has killed over the decades?!
To celebrate the latest Bond film 'Spectre', our friends over at Empire Magazine have unearthed the best must-know facts about 007.
The fact-tastic list also coincides with the new Spectre edition of Empire magazine graced by James Bond (Daniel Craig) and his new arch nemesis Franz Oberhauser (Christoph Waltz), which is on sale on Thursday.
!219 The number of people who’ve played James Bond on TV, radio, in audiobooks, on the internet, in short films, in movies, as stuntmen and in video games (not including stand-ins).
!23,500,000 The number of people who watched Live and Let Die on its first TV broadcast in 1980.
!4,750 The pounds paid for Roger Moore’s sage-green safari shirt from The Man With The Golden Gun at auction in 2014.
!378 Characters killed by Bond in all the official films so far. Pierce Brosnan killed off the most with 135 and George Lazenby killed the least with just five.
!277 Units of alcohol that Bond is seen consuming on screen in official Bond Films… that includes 27 Martinis.
!15 BMW 750iLs destroyed during the making of Tomorrow Never Dies. At $73,000 each, that’s over a million dollars’ worth of car-nage.
!8,000,000 Copies sold of GoldenEye 007 for the Nintendo 64. The first Bond video game was 1983’s James Bond 007 and there have been 22 Bond video games in total.
For more fantastic Bond facts (including the names of those 219 people who have ever played 007) check out the September collector’s issue of Empire, guest edited by Spectre director Sam Mendes, on sale on Thursday 24 September.
