James Bond writer Steven Knight teases his take on the iconic character, as he’s having “a fantastic time” writing the new movie

Taylor Knight is writing the script for the upcoming film directed by Denis Villeneuve. He’s been keeping details under wraps, so during our exclusive video interview with him for our series, The TopMob Writers’ Room – where we explore the minds of screenwriters – we decided to ask him what we could expect.
![In July 2025, the Large Hadron Collider achieved a world-first by successfully colliding protons with oxygen nuclei, marking a new frontier in high-energy physics research through the [latex] pO [/latex] displays and opening avenues to explore the strong force under extreme conditions.](https://arxiv.org/html/2601.01217v1/ALICE_event_display-2025-proton-Oxygen_0.png)


![The quantum phase diagram of the spin-1 XXZ Heisenberg model-relevant to Na₂BaNi(PO₄)₂-reveals distinct phases-nematic supersolid, up-up-down, ferroquadrupolar, and fully polarized-determined through DMRG calculations on a 24x6 lattice with bond dimensions up to 1400, achieving truncation errors of approximately [latex]10^{-6}[/latex], and finite-size effects manifesting as stripe-like ordering are understood as transient and not representative of the thermodynamic limit.](https://arxiv.org/html/2601.01890v1/x3.png)


