CANNES\/ASIA (AFP): Steven Knight, the creator of hit series\u00a0“Peaky Blinders”,\u00a0who is writing the next “Bond” movie, has strongly hinted that the ageing British spy is about to get really shaken and stirred.<\/p>\n
The writer said that Amazon has given him a licence to play with the legendary MI6 secret agent created by author Ian Fleming.<\/p>\n
“Bond has been bulletproof. People have been able to make mistakes and variations and the character has survived,” Knight told Screen magazine at the Cannes Film Festival.<\/p>\n
“Because the core of it is like a diamond. You can’t touch it. The person you are talking about is folklore,” he added.<\/p>\n
The writer told reporters that he has done research with “the SAS and even more secret outfits” for his reinvention of the next 007 movie, the first produced by Amazon.<\/p>\n
He said he has met special forces and secret services personnel as part of his immersion in their world.<\/p>\n
“I am talking to them about what they do every day. It’s all real,” he said of scenarios he is exploring.<\/p>\n
– New ‘Peaky Blinders’ series –<\/strong><\/p>\n Bond’s creator Fleming himself “was living that life in the war (World War II)” as an intelligence officer, he added.<\/p>\n “He was doing those things. He knew people doing that stuff, going out there and killing people.”<\/p>\n But Knight said his lips were sealed on what new turns Bond might take.<\/p>\n “I can’t say anything on the script,” he insisted to Screen.<\/p>\n Knight, who has just completed a documentary about Oasis’s record-breaking reunion tour, is in Cannes to drum up business for his Digbeth Loc studio in his native Birmingham, where “Peaky Blinders” is set and shot.<\/p>\n “We are filming the next series (of ‘Peaky Blinders’) at the moment, we will have it in the can in a few weeks,” he told industry site Deadline. “People are going to be pleasantly surprised how it has turned out, because it is so good.” — AFP<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CANNES\/ASIA (AFP): Steven Knight, the creator of hit series\u00a0“Peaky Blinders”,\u00a0who is writing the next “Bond” movie, has strongly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":966676,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3935],"tags":[324,269910,5839,77,83419,58503,3943,2675,162910,269911,48953,16,15,12873],"class_list":["post-966675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-amazon","tag-bond-movie","tag-cannes","tag-entertainment","tag-ian-fleming","tag-mi6","tag-movies","tag-peaky-blinders","tag-sas","tag-secret-agent","tag-steven-knight","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-world-war-ii"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116590120982107548","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=966675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/966676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=966675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=966675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=966675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}