{"id":37281,"date":"2025-08-01T03:50:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T03:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/37281\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T03:50:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T03:50:08","slug":"steven-knight-to-write-denis-villeneuve-james-bond-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/37281\/","title":{"rendered":"Steven Knight To Write Denis Villeneuve James Bond Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, well, well, here’s an exciting bit of news for a late Thursday evening: Steven Knight is heading from Brum to Bond. Yes, following last month’s announcement that Denis Villeneuve will direct the next James Bond movie<\/a> for Amazon, the iconic spy series’ new custodians David Heyman and Amy Pascal<\/a> have just found the next piece of their 007-shaped puzzle. Per Deadline<\/a>‘s reporting (and Amazon MGM Studios’ Instagram<\/a>), Peaky Blinders<\/a> creator Knight \u2014 who recently wrapped production on his Birmingham-based mob drama’s big-screen debut<\/a> \u2014 has been tapped to write the upcoming 26th Bond movie.<\/p>\n

According to Deadline’s sources, since choosing Villeneuve as the man to make the first 007 feature since 2021’s No Time To Die<\/a>, Heyman and Pascal’s sole focus has been on locking in the scribe to pen Bond’s big screen comeback. Apparently Knight \u2014 whose vast CV of hits includes the likes of Locke<\/a>, Eastern Promises<\/a>, See<\/a>, SAS Rogue Heroes<\/a>, Spencer<\/a>, and A Thousand Blows<\/a> (as well as, wildly, global gameshow phenomenon Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?, for which he gets co-creator credit) \u2014 emerged as the frontrunner for the job in recent weeks before reaching the final hurdle: a face-to-face meeting with Villeneuve, who’s currently out in Budapest shooting Dune Part Three<\/a>. Clearly that conversation was a success, as Knight \u2014 whose cerebral storytelling approach has surely found a kindred spirit in Villeneuve\u2019s own \u2014 has now emerged as the man tasked with writing the first chapter in a bold new era for Bond.<\/p>\n

As of this moment in time, we still don’t know who’ll be playing 007, how exactly the super spy is being brought back after Daniel Craig’s explosive NTTD exit, or when we can expect Bond 26 to hit our screens. But what we do know is that if Amazon are looking to reassure fans that the future of the franchise is in safe hands, then every appointment so far \u2014 from producers, to director, to writer \u2014 is certainly doing the trick. And with Knight\u2019s hiring, now the speculation can really kick into overdrive about who Amazon will bestow cinema\u2019s most coveted license to kill upon. We wonder what Cillian Murphy’s up to next summer…<\/p>\n