Amazon MGM Studios has announced that Peaky Blinders creator, Steven Knight, is to write the script for the studio’s upcoming James Bond film.

Denis Villeneuve has already been announced as director with Amy Pascal and David Heyman producing via Pascal Pictures and Heyday Films, respectively. Tanya Lapointe will executive produce.

Knight is the creator, executive producer, and writer of BAFTA-winning television series Peaky Blinders, starring Cillian Murphy, as well as the Emmy-nominated Taboo (BBC/FX), the Emmy-nominated See (Apple TV+), the BAFTA-nominated SAS Rogue Heroes (BBC), and A Thousand Blows (Disney+), This Town (BBC), The Veil (FX), and All the Light We Cannot See (Netflix).

Knight also co-created game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? His first penned film, Dirty Pretty Things, was directed by Stephen Frears and opened the London Film Festival. It won four BIFAs, the 2005 Humanitas Prize for Film, and earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay, among other honours. Further screenplays for film include the Academy Award–nominated Eastern Promises, the Academy Award–nominated Spencer, and three that he also directed: Hummingbird, Locke, and Serenity. Upcoming projects include the Netflix feature film installment of Peaky Blinders and Netflix historical drama series House of Guinness.

Knight is also co-director of Digbeth Loc. Studios in Birmingham and he has published four novels: The Movie House, Alphabet City, Out of the Blue, and The Last Words of Will Wolfkin.

He was also part of the creative team responsible for the opening ceremony of the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games.

In 2022, Amazon acquired MGM. In March 2025, Amazon MGM Studios closed a new joint venture with Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson, the terms of which call for Amazon MGM Studios to gain creative control of the James Bond intellectual property rights.

Knight is represented by CAA, United Agents, and Davis Law Group.