A day after the information broke that he had been tapped by Amazon to write down the following James Bond movie, “Peaky Blinders” creator Steven Knight has instructed followers that he can’t wait to get began on the British spy franchise’s newest installment saying it should hopefully be a bolder tackle 007.
Knight opened up about his new, high-profile gig in a Friday interview with the BBC’s Radio 5 Stay Breakfast. “It has all the time been on my bucket checklist and it’s improbable to be invited to do it,” Knight stated. “I can’t wait to get began.” The screenwriter, whose previous credit exterior of “Peaky Blinders” embody 2021’s “Spencer,” 2013’s “Locke” and 2007’s “Jap Guarantees,” went on to substantiate that he’s, certainly, a fan of the Bond franchise.
In reality, he hopes that his affection for 007’s previous big-screen adventures will assist him create one that’s “stronger and bolder” than those who have come earlier than it. “I’m hoping that, being a Bond fan for thus a few years, it is going to be imbued into me and I will produce one thing that’s the identical however totally different, and higher, stronger and bolder,” Knight teased.
The prolific British screenwriter is the fourth identify to hitch Amazon’s new Bond movie. Within the months since longtime Bond producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson stepped away from the franchise in February, Amazon has wasted little time placing collectively a brand new group for the sequence’ subsequent installment.
That course of started with the corporate’s hiring of longtime “Spider-Man” producer Amy Pascal and “Harry Potter” producer David Heyman to supply and oversee the manufacturing of the brand new Bond movie. In late June, it was then introduced that “Dune” director Denis Villeneuve had signed on to direct the film.
Now, with Knight’s hiring because the blockbuster’s scribe, the movie’s core inventive group could be very almost full.
Reflecting on how he discovered his manner onboard the challenge, Knight instructed Radio 5 listeners, “I used to be invited to a gathering with [producer] Amy Pascal, didn’t know what it was about, and really shortly found what it was about and have become very, very excited and hopeful. After which a course of is adopted the place you do some conferences, you focus on some concepts, and then you definately discover out you’ve acquired it.”
“I came upon some time in the past but it surely was introduced final evening, which is nice,” Knight famous. Whereas he acknowledged that writing the following Bond movie is a “high-pressure” job, the screenwriter stated, “You’ve simply acquired to do what you do, do it in addition to you may.”
Villeneuve and Knight’s movie would be the first Bond film since 2021’s “No Time to Die,” which was written by Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, Cary Joji Fukunaga and Phoebe Waller-Bridge and marked the official finish of Daniel Craig’s acclaimed tenure as 007.
Followers are, after all, nonetheless ready on pins and needles to seek out out who will play Bond in Villeneuve’s movie and — talking of excessive stress jobs — take over for Craig. Many names have been thrown round and rumored over the previous few months, together with Aaron Taylor-Johnson and “Insurgent Ridge” star Aaron Pierre.
If Knight is aware of who’s enjoying 007 subsequent, although, he made it clear Friday that he received’t be the one to interrupt the information. When requested who will tackle the coveted movie position after Craig, Knight stated merely, “That could be a very, excellent query, and one I can’t provide the reply to.”
