[imagesource:reddit] We’ve endured enough speculation about the replacement for James Bond since actor Daniel Craig’s swansong as the iconic British character in No Time To Die. The guesswork has included names like Idris Elba, Robert Pattinson and Tom Hardy, who have surfaced and sunk as the next best 007. Meanwhile, Bond producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson have kept their intel on a strictly need-to-know basis. Naturally, okes have been having fun placing bets on the next James Bond, with more theories being thrown around than the whereabouts of Kate Middleton. Finally, it appea ..read more

[imagesource:greekreporter] Bond, Rodney Bond. Doesn’t quite have the same feel to it, does it? According to Ian Flemming’s brother Peter, the author of the world’s most-loved spy stories nearly named 007 after a real spy that he met during WW2 – Rodney Clarence Mortimer Bond. Peter Felmming – a lieutenant colonel in charge of `military deception’ in Southeast Asia during WW2 – suggested the name Bond as the hero for the author’s first book Casino Royale. Peter had come across Rodney Bond when he was rescued from a Nazi bombing attack in northern Greece in 1941. Lieutenant Colonel Bond was the ..read more

[imagesource:facebook/jamebond007] Please welcome to the stage: the UK survey about James Bond that we didn’t know we needed. Cue 007’s intro music. The results are in after 3500 fervent Bond fans were asked about their dream candidate to succeed Daniel Craig as the suave secret agent following the conclusion of his tenure with No Time To Die. It’s no surprise that handsome gent Idris Elba secured the top spot in the recent poll, considering he has been a firm favourite of fans of the franchise for many years. The casino and betting franchise that organised the voting, William Hill Vegas, has ..read more

[imagesource:radiotimes] AI technology is helping us imagine and depict scenarios that would never have been possible with traditional photography before. While employing AI to make something like an advert can turn into a complete fever-dream horror show, it can also help us figure out which hunky Hollywood actor suits the role of the next James Bond the best. Daniel Craig just left the role of 007 after playing the iconic character for the last 15 years, and intense speculation has immediately turned to which actor will follow in Craig’s footsteps. There’s been talk of it being Tom Hardy,&nb ..read more

[imagesource:pixabay] SoftBank Vision Funds Post Record $39bn Annual Loss – Tech conglomerate in ‘defence mode’ as it halts new investments and sells down Alibaba stake. [fintimes] Sweden’s Loreen Wins Historic Second Eurovision, After Emotional Show In Britain That Celebrated Ukraine – Sweden’s Loreen has won the Eurovision Song Contest for a second time, earning a historic triumph at an extravagant and crowd-pleasing show held in Liverpool, United Kingdom, on behalf of Ukraine. [cnn] Kenny Kunene Appointed Joburg Acting Mayor – The Joburg Transport MMC’s appointment is effective from S ..read more

[imagesource:here] James Bond is returning. But it will be in the form of a reality TV show sort of like The Amazing Race. I know, not quite what we expected, as we have all been waiting with bated breath since Daniel Craig stepped down as 007 to find out who the next Bond will be. But alas, we will have to take what we can get. Having bought MGM Studios, Amazon announced the project inspired by the wild antics of everyone’s favourite superspy, called 007’s Road To A Million. Although, per Sky News, contestants won’t exactly be screeching around sharp corners in custom-built gadget-ridden spor ..read more

[imagesource: Columbia Pictures] In the 2012 James Bond flick Skyfall, Q explained to Bond that his latest gun was secretly fitted with a microdermal sensor exclusively encoded to his palm print. That essentially meant that the smart gun was for 007’s hands only, and only he would ever be able to shoot it. It was the gun that saved his life in that film, allowing him to die another day. The tech in the James Bond films has usually been miles ahead of anything based on reality, but still, gun manufacturers have at least been trying. Although, there hasn’t been a successful replication of the te ..read more

[imagesource: CBS] The last time we saw James Corden, he was holding up traffic in Los Angeles dressed as a giant mouse and hip-thrusting at the unfortunate motorists. His latest is something a little more different, and perhaps a little less embarrassing. Corden had the former James Bond star Daniel Craig on set for Thursday’s episode of The Late Late Show with James Corden, in which the pair recreated Hollywood’s most beloved blockbusters. The actor and talk show host participated in a skit in which they recreated 24 famous films in 10 minutes, and the only reason it wasn’t so cringy is ..read more

[imagesource: MGM/TA] James Bond has been known to get up to some zany shenanigans in his 20-plus films. To name a few, we’ve seen Bond dress up as a clown, dodge laser blasts on a space station, drive an invisible car across a glacier, and even survive a massive tsunami by windsurfing. But there was one bizarre stunt that never made it to the big screen, and the BBC is wondering if it is perhaps the greatest Bond film never made. It is the Bond that Irish screenwriter Kevin McClory wrote with a robot shark carrying an atom bomb through a Manhattan sewer that eventually gets deactivated by 007 ..read more

[imagesource: MGM / Universal] Daniel Craig’s fifth and final hurrah as James Bond is here, with No Time To Die set to be released in the UK tomorrow. Well, the reviews are in and suffice to say, they are all as stellar as can be expected from the Bond franchise. Somehow 007 still manages to keep us on the edges of our seats, full of unexpected turns and nostalgic nods. The Guardian and The Telegraph have both given the Cary Fukunaga-directed film a full badge of five stars, calling it a “weird and self-aware epic with audacious surprises up its sleeve” and “extravagant, satisfying, and moving ..read more