{"id":888716,"date":"2026-09-11T23:52:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T23:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/888716\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T23:52:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T23:52:15","slug":"knight-next-bond-film-script-draft-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/888716\/","title":{"rendered":"Knight: Next Bond Film Script Draft Done"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/knight-teases-new-james-bond-film-approach.jpg\" data-caption=\"MGM, EON, Universal Pictures\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/knight-teases-new-james-bond-film-approach.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"knight-teases-new-james-bond-film-approach\"\/><\/a>MGM, EON, Universal Pictures<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeaky Blinders\u201d and \u201cHouse of Guinness\u201d creator Steven Knight has confirmed that the script for the next James Bond film is shaping up well.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Zoe Ball on the U.K.\u2019s Greatest Hits Radio (via <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/film\/global\/james-bond-movie-first-draft-script-done-steven-knight-1236858810\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Variety<\/a>), he was asked if he\u2019d done the script draft, to which Knight replied: \u201cI\u2019m nodding silently.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Talking about writing for the franchise, Knight says it\u2019s \u201cmore than bucket list\u201d and he felt as if he were \u201cdoing my duty for King and country by taking this thing on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s also having a blast doing it: \u201cI\u2019m absolutely loving doing it. It\u2019s an honor to be asked. And believe it\u2019s going to be so good. I really do believe it\u2019s going to be amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The comments follow a few days on from Knight hinting the other day that the role has already been cast when a BBC Radio 4 interviewer asked him if he\u2019d written the film with the chosen actor in mind or based on what he knew about the character to which Knight responded: \u201cIt\u2019s a bit of both. It does make life a little bit easier if you know who that person is, but also you have to write the character, not the actor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Denis Villeneuve directs what will be the 26th instalment in the long-running series along with being a franchise reboot.<\/p>\n<p>Previous article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkhorizons.com\/sony-ditched-kojimas-physint-over-budget\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sony Ditched Kojima\u2019s \u201cPhysint\u201d Over Budget<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkhorizons.com\/new-resident-evil-film-ditched-most-laughs\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New \u201cResident Evil\u201d Film Ditched Most Laughs<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MGM, EON, Universal Pictures \u201cPeaky Blinders\u201d and \u201cHouse of Guinness\u201d creator Steven Knight has confirmed that the script&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":888717,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,142132,134],"class_list":["post-888716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bigslider","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=888716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/888717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}