Peaky Blinders creator to pen new James Bond movie: Studio
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There has been no new Bond film since 2021‘s No Time To Die.
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LOS ANGELES - Steven Knight, the British creator of gritty TV crime series Peaky Blinders (2013 to 2022), will write the highly anticipated next James Bond movie, studio Amazon MGM announced on July 31.
Knight, 65, will work alongside previously announced Canadian director Denis Villeneuve to bring the world’s most famous fictional spy back to the big screen after a prolonged absence.
Amazon MGM Studios acquired creative control of the 007 movies
There has been no new Bond film since No Time To Die (2021).
Knight is best known as the mind behind violent British gangster series Peaky Blinders, which was set in industrial England at the turn of the 20th century and became a global hit.
Running for six seasons, and with a Netflix film version currently in the works, Peaky Blinders turbo-charged the careers of leading man Cillian Murphy, alongside a stellar supporting cast including Tom Hardy, Anya Taylor-Joy and Kingsley Ben-Adir.
In addition to Peaky Blinders, Knight also co-created the wildly popular television quiz show, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, and has penned four novels.
The Birmingham, England-based screenwriter, producer and director’s other TV credits include Taboo (2017), See (2019 to 2022), All The Light We Cannot See (2023) and This Town (2024).
The Bond films, based on late British writer Ian Fleming’s novels, have earned more than US$7 billion (S$9 billion) collectively at the global box office since debuting in 1962.
No release date or title has yet been set for the film franchise’s 26th instalment.
And despite frenzied speculation among fans, there has been no announcement on who will replace English actor Daniel Craig as the suave British super-spy.
Among the actors most discussed to be the next Bond are Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Tom Holland, Harris Dickinson, Jacob Elordi, and Ben-Adir – but Amazon MGM has so far refused to disclose the franchise’s most closely guarded secret. AFP
