Former Bexley resident and friend of the paper, Sir Roger Moore is the most destructive James Bond ever, causing £4.6 BILLION of damage as 007 and leaving more than just his vodka-martini shaken.
With Spectre released this week, insurance firm More Th>n painstakingly documented all of the damage caused in the 24 official Bond film, including Spectre.
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Their experts totted up the damage from everything from £3 smashed ashtrays and £25 stolen shirts all the way up to buildings, artefacts and even a space station.
In fact, it’s the latter that sent Moore’s bill into the stratosphere. The most destructive Bond movie was 1979’s Moonraker in which Bond has a hand in the obliteration of five space shuttles and an entire space station. They account for £4.1 billion between them.
By comparison, Daniel Craig has amassed a mere £449 million-worth of carnage and languishes fourth on the list.
Over the years, Bond has been responsible £8 billion of damage – almost as much as the entire GDP of Jamaica, where Ian Fleming lived and wrote the books.
Accounting for inflation and values in today’s money, the most destructive Bonds are:
- Roger Moore / £4,630,196,134 (£661,456,590 average per film)
- Pierce Brosnan / £1,905,765,384 (£476,441,346 average per film)
- Sean Connery / £1,297,087,560 (£216,181,260 average per film)
- Daniel Craig / £449,183,670 (£132,582,275 average per film)
- Timothy Dalton / £80,058,778 (£70,082,275 average per film)
- George Lazenby / £36,417,110 (£36,417,110 average per film)
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