{"id":36685,"date":"2025-07-31T21:44:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T21:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/36685\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T21:44:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T21:44:08","slug":"peaky-blinders-creator-steven-knight-set-to-write-next-james-bond-movie-james-bond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/36685\/","title":{"rendered":"Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight set to write next James Bond movie | James Bond"},"content":{"rendered":"

The British screenwriter Steven Knight has reportedly been tapped to write the next James Bond<\/a> movie.<\/p>\n

According to Deadline<\/a>, Knight recently met the director Denis Villeneuve and landed the job after various other writers were also considered. Villeneuve is currently filming the third Dune instalment.<\/p>\n

The 65-year-old writer is best known for co-creating the long-running gameshow Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? and creating the hit crime series Peaky Blinders. His other small-screen credits include Taboo, A Thousand Blows and The Veil starring Elisabeth Moss.<\/p>\n

On the big screen, Knight was written the scripts for the acclaimed dramas Eastern Promises, Dirty Pretty Things, Locke and Spencer. He also wrote and directed the sci-fi thriller Serenity starring Matthew McConaughey, which received negative reviews. The Guardian\u2019s Charles Bramesco called<\/a> it \u201cmagnificently terrible\u201d.<\/p>\n

His upcoming credits include the Peaky Blinders movie The Immortal Man and period drama series House of Guinness for Netflix.<\/p>\n

When talking about The Immortal Man in 2023, Knight name-checked 007. \u201cThe biggest difference between a film and TV series is the budget,\u201d he said to the Mirror<\/a>. \u201cWhen you do stuff for TV, you often have to ask people to imagine it. But with a film, you can really do it. You can blow stuff up. Will Tommy be giving James Bond a run for his money? Maybe. There are parallels. We always thought of Peaky as very cinematic, so we are finally finding a screen big enough for what we want to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

While the role of James Bond remains up in the air, a June report claimed<\/a> that Tom Holland, Harris Dickinson and Jacob Elordi were top of the wishlist. The news came just after the Dune and Arrival director Villeneuve<\/a> was officially attached. \u201cI intend to honour the tradition and open the path for many new missions to come,\u201d he said in a statement. \u201cThis is a massive responsibility, but also, incredibly exciting for me and a huge honour.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 26th Bond film will follow Daniel Craig\u2019s final outing, No Time to Die, which made over $774m at the global box office. Earlier this year, in a reported $1bn deal<\/a>, Amazon MGM bought the rights to gain \u201ccreative control\u201d of the franchise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The British screenwriter Steven Knight has reportedly been tapped to write the next James Bond movie. According to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-36685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}