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Steven Knight (born 5 August 1959) is a British screenwriter, producer, and director for film and television. He wrote the screenplays for the films Closed Circuit, Dirty Pretty Things, and Eastern Promises. Also, he wrote and directed the films Locke and Hummingbird (a.k.a. Redemption). In July 2025, it was announced that he would write the 26th official James Bond film, to be directed by Denis Villeneuve. Knight is one of three creators of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, a game show that has been remade and aired in around 160 countries worldwide. He is also the creator of the BBC's Peaky Blinders and SAS: Rogue Heroes, and has written for Commercial Breakdown, The Detectives, See, and Taboo. He has built a large film and television studio complex in inner-city Birmingham called Digbeth Loc., opened in 2024. Description above from the Wikipedia article Steven Knight, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Fresh after the situation in The Man with the Golden Gun, MI6 finally detected a connection between Francisco Scaramanga, La Estrellados Cartel, and Auric Enterprises. To which they're part of the sub-network to unknown global criminal enterprises, James Bond trying to find the link when he's in the mission to destroy La Estrellados' Operational Drug Factory in Baja, Mexico. But it led to the scandal that almost ruptured a hope for diplomatic reparation between Mexico and UK. While waiting a next assignment, Felix Leiter finally contacts Bond in Miami with a help of Auric's employee named Junius Du Pont - Felix's contact and Bond's underworld ally. This led to a spiraling down to rabbit hole where the Meeting with Jill Materson became a goose chase between Bond and Auric with a Rivaling Agent from South Korea (posing as Auric's Bodyguard) try to stop both of them from a dangerous game that an unknown organization that roof ORU Network settle in. Either that, it's a deadly Midas' touch in three-way duel.
