Exclusive: After Denis Villeneuve has led the next James Bond film, Amazon MGM Studios has a focus on a writer who puts the next episode in the foreground in the 007 franchise rate. Sources say the deadline Peaky Blinders The Creator Steven Knight was discontinued to write the picture.
Amy Pascal and David Heyman produce via Pascal pictures or flowering films. Tanya Lapointe becomes Executive Produce.
Since the complete creative control of the franchise this year, Amazon MGM has searched for the talent behind the scenes that will monitor the development of this next picture in the series. Pascal and Heyman were first applied, and after they had met with a series of directors, the Studio Villeneuve typed to guide it.
While there were rumors about who could possibly play the coveted main role, according to sources, sources are that the only focus in the past few weeks was who would write the script with a number of meetings with potential candidates. In the past few weeks, the knight, born in Great Britain, seemed to be put into pole position, but insiders said dune Film. Insiders say that the meeting finally took place last week, with Villeneuve being completely on board so that Knight got the job.
Insiders, who concerns the next actor for the title 007, does not expect insiders as soon as Villeneuve returns its focus on the end Dune: Part three while Knight writes the script.
As far as Knight is concerned, he is the creator, executive producer and author of the BAFTA winner series Peaky BlindersWith Cillian Murphy, as well as series like the Emmy-nominated leading role Taboo (BBC/FX) and See (Apple TV+), the BAFTA-nominated Sas Rogue Heroes (BBC) as well A thousand blows (Disney+), This city (Bbc), The veil (FX) and All the light that we cannot see (Netflix). The latter received several nominations, including for the Best Limited Series at Golden Globes from last year.
Knight has also put together the phenomenon of the international game show Who wants to be a millionaire? His first written film, Dirty pretty thingswas staged by Stephen Frears and opened the London Film Festival 2002. It won four Bifas, a Humanitas Prize and received an Oscar nomination for the original screenplay. He also wrote the Oscar-nominated Eastern promise And Spencerand three that he wrote and staged Kolibris, Locke And serenity.
The upcoming projects include Peaky Blinders Film and the historical drama series House of GuinnessBoth for Netflix.
Beyond the screen, Knight has released four novels: The Filmhaus Alphabet City out of the blue And The last words of Will Wolfkin. He was also part of the creative team, who was responsible for the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Games 2022 in Birmingham, England, his hometown. He received a CBE in the new list of honor 2020 for services for drama, entertainment and the community of Birmingham. In 2023, the Royal Television Society Knight awarded a scholarship for its contribution to the British television industry.
In addition, Knight co-director of Digbeth Loc. Studios, a TV and film studio complex in Birmingham, which opened in 2023.
In 2022, Amazon MGM, including its enormous catalog, was acquired with more than 4,000 films and 17,000 television programs. In March Amazon MGM closed a joint venture with Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson, whose conditions the Stuido demanded to control James Bond's rights.
Knight is represented by Caa, United Agents and Davis Law Group.