Peaky Blinders and Taboo creator Steven Knight is the king of TV period dramas at the moment, but his next project is taking him into the future!
The British writer is partnering with The Hunger Games director Francis Lawrence in a blockbuster deal to make Apple's next scripted project, according to Deadline.
Apple is venturing more and more into the scripted telly field, developing a satire of US breakfast TV starring Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Aniston and a reboot of Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stories from Hannibal's Bryan Fuller.
This new project with Steven Knight, called See, is described by Deadline only as a world-building drama series set in the future, so clearly Apple is playing close to the vest for now.
See has been given a straight-to-series commission, and is expected to run for eight episodes in this initial commitment from Apple.
The futuristic drama is yet another major project for the very busy Knight. The Birmingham-based writer is not only working on the second series of Taboo, but more of Peaky Blinders as well.
Knight has also started development on both a stage musical and a feature film based on Peaky Blinders, which stars Cillian Murphy as the Birmingham gangster Tommy Shelby.
His See collaborator Francis Lawrence has most recently reunited with his Hunger Games star Jennifer Lawrence for the spy thriller Red Sparrow, out on 2 March in the UK and the US.
Watch a trailer for Red Sparrow below:
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