Peaky Blinders ' Steven Knight has exited the new Rey-focused Star Wars movie. The film, which is being directed by Ms Marvel 's Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, was first announced last year, and is set 15 years after the events of The Rise of Skywalker.

Knight was the second round of screenwriters brought in for this project after the team of Damon Lindelof and Justin Britt-Gibson dropped out in 2023. His departure doesn’t come as much of a surprise,

Steven Knight, arguably most known as the creator of BBC’s Peaky Blinders (2013-2022), is no longer attached to the upcoming Star Wars movie featuring Daisy Ridley’s Rey from the sequel trilogy. In March 2023,