AH, MR BOND. I’VE NOT BEEN EXPECTING YOU!

Shock front-runner emerges in casting saga

THE hot topic of who will be the next James Bond has been discussed ever since Daniel Craig announced he was hanging up his tuxedo and packing away his bulging swimming trunks. Every day, our mobiles ping non-stop with notifications about the latest 007 front-runners – Idris Elba, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Regé-Jean Page, Theo James, and Henry Golding, to name but five actors, at least four of whom you’ve probably never heard of. But now one Bristol mathematician believes he has come up with a computer model to answer the question of who will be the next 007 with an accuracy of 99.75%, putting an end to years of speculation. Dr Bjorn Oerstryke, senior researcher in Mathematical Film Studies at Bristol University, has developed a program which analyses past Bonds, amassing…

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Viz (Digital) - 1 Issue, October 2023

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