(Left) Steven Knight attends the ‘All The Mild We Can not See’ New York particular screening at Paris Theater on October 30, 2023 in New York Metropolis. Photograph by Bryan Bedder/Getty Pictures for Netflix. (Proper) Daniel Craig in ‘No Time To Die’. Photograph: Metro Goldwyn Mayer Photos.
Preview:
- ‘Peaky Blinders’ creator Steven Knight is the write the subsequent Bond film.
- Denis Villeneuve is within the director’s chair.
- There’s nonetheless no phrase on a brand new Bond.
The items look like rapidly falling into place for the brand new James Bond outing, the primary since stewards Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson formally handed creative control to Amazon MGM Studios.
We already know that ‘Dune’ director Denis Villeneuve would be the filmmaker charged with bringing 007 again to screens following the efficient slate wipe that was Daniel Craig’s last outing, ‘No Time to Die’.
Now, Deadline reports that Steven Knight, creator of TV drama ‘Peaky Blinders’ and author of films together with ‘Locke’, ‘Eastern Promises’ and ‘Maria’, has taken the scripting job.
“The mission that modifications the whole lot begins…”
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Knight is an enchanting alternative –– whereas he has produced some actually nice (and sometimes Oscar-nominated) work, he’s additionally had a couple of whiffs, akin to ‘Serenity’ and ‘Locked Down’. However he’s definitely an attention-grabbing individual to work alongside Villeneuve on Bond.
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Steven Knight talks the Bond gig
(L to R) Cillian Murphy and Steven Knight are reunited on set as manufacturing formally begins on the upcoming Netflix movie.
Interviewed on BBC Radio 5 concerning the new job, Knight had this to say:
“It has all the time been on my bucket record, and it’s unbelievable to be invited to do it — I can’t wait to get began. I’m hoping that, being a Bond fan for therefore a few years, it is going to be imbued into me and I will produce one thing that’s the identical however completely different, and higher, stronger and bolder.”
He additionally admitted that he had no concept why producer Amy Pascal needed to fulfill him till the large announcement that she and ‘Harry Potter’ veteran David Heyman can be shepherding Amazon MGM’s Bond efforts:
“I in a short time found what it was about and have become very excited and hopeful. After which the method is…you do some conferences, you talk about some concepts, and you then discover out you’ve received it. I discovered some time in the past, however it was introduced final night time, which is nice. It’s a excessive stress job, however you’ve simply received to do what you do, do it in addition to you may.”
Who may play Bond?
(Left) Tom Holland arrives on the purple carpet of The ninetieth Oscars® on the Dolby® Theatre in Hollywood, CA on Sunday, March 4, 2018. Credit score/Supplier: Michael Baker / A.M.P.A.S. Copyright: A.M.P.A.S. (Middle) Theo James as Eddie Horniman in ‘The Gents.’ Photograph: Kevin Baker/Netflix. Copyright: © 2023, Netflix Inc. (Proper) Jacob Elordi arrives on the purple carpet of the 94th Oscars® on the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood in Los Angeles, CA, on Sunday, March 27, 2022. Credit score/Supplier: Michael Baker / A.M.P.A.S. Copyright: ©A.M.P.A.S.
That’s the subsequent massive query that followers need to reply.
We’ve had a wealth of names speculated about since Craig hung up his holster and downed his final martini (and, er –– spoiler alert for ‘No Time to Die’ –– let’s not overlook was blown up by a missile).
In that point the likes of Idris Elba, Theo James, Richard Madden, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Henry Cavill have all been mooted, with Tom Holland, Harris Dickinson and Jacob Elordi among the many present crop of candidates.
But the primary identify within the combine appears to be Aaron Pierre, who has impressed in ‘The Underground Railroad’, ‘Foe’ and notably ‘Rebel Ridge’ the place he proved his motion/drama chops.
Pierre will subsequent be seen in DC/HBO collection ‘Lanterns’.
When will the brand new Bond film be on screens?
With Villeneuve at the moment busy making ready to make the third ‘Dune’ outing (that one is scheduled for December sixteenth, 2026), we wouldn’t anticipate to see a brand new Bond a lot earlier than 2027 on the earliest.
Daniel Craig as James Bond in 2012’s ‘Skyfall.’