Steven Knight is the latest scribe to tackle James Bond. The prolific writer will pen the script for filmmaker Denis Villeneuve, who is directing the next 007 film for Amazon MGM Studios. Knight also joins producers Amy Pascal and David Heyman.

It’s the end of an era for the Bond franchise, where writers Neal Purvis and Robert Wade had been working with the franchise beginning with 1999’s The World Is Not Enough, and ending with 2021’s No Time To Die. They contributed to the screenplays of seven Bond films over more than two decades.

Steven Knight is known for co-creating the game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, as well as BBC’s Peaky Blinders and SAS: Rogue Heroes. In terms of feature films, he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay for 2004’s Dirty Pretty Things, and wrote for The Girl In The Spider’s Web, Allied, and Burnt. He also worked with Pablo Larraín on both Spencer and Maria. He also wrote and directed Locke, Serenity, and Hummingbird.

Just like Villeneuve has other projects coming up before work on Bond can begin, so too does Knight. His next project is The Immortal Man, a continuation of Peaky Blinders that will see Cillian Murphy, Stephen Graham, and more return to the screen for Netflix.

Who will play James Bond in this new era for the franchise is still a hotly speculated-upon topic, on which there have been no further updates.