Steven Knight, the creator of the gritty TV crime series Peaky Blinders, will write the highly anticipated next James Bond movie, studio Amazon MGM has announced.
The new James Bond writer has been announced & it's Steven Knight - creator of Peaky Blinders.
— BBC Radio 5 Live (@bbc5live) August 1, 2025
He's also just released a new documentary Brady & The Blues. pic.twitter.com/zVKghkGRKV
Knight will work alongside previously announced director Denis Villeneuve (Dune, Dune: Part Two) to bring the world's most famous fictional spy back to the big screen after a prolonged absence.
Amazon MGM Studios sets Denis Villeneuve as director of next James Bond film.
— James Bond (@007) June 26, 2025
Tanya Lapointe will serve as executive producer. As previously announced, Amy Pascal and David Heyman will serve as producers. pic.twitter.com/E27wlBRuFI
Knight told BBC Radio 5 Live Breakfast: "It has always been on my bucket list, and it's fantastic to be invited to do it, and I can't wait to get started."
He added: "I'm hoping that, being a Bond fan for so many years, it will be imbued into me and I will be able to produce something that's the same but different, and better, stronger, and bolder."
Amazon MGM Studios acquired creative control of the 007 movies in February and has moved quickly to get one of Hollywood's most valuable franchises back into production.
There has been no new Bond film since 2021's No Time to Die.
Knight is best known as the mind behind the 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 on the BBC, 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-based screenwriter, producer, and director's other TV credits include Taboo, See, This Town, and All the Light We Cannot See.
His film credits include Dirty Pretty Things (writer), Eastern Promises (writer), Locke (writer-director), and Maria (writer).
The Bond films, based on Ian Fleming's novels, have earned more than $7 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.
Despite frenzied speculation among fans, there has been no announcement on which actor will replace 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.
Source: AFP, Press Association
