Steven Knight

By Brian Hickey
URL: http://www.moviemaker.com/blog/item/steven_knight/
Steven Knight's screenplays are windows into the places that normally cannot be afforded windows. His Oscar-nominated script for 2002's Dirty Pretty Things showed us the life of immigrants in London, as well as the tortured world of prostitution and underground organ transplants. 2006's Amazing Grace was a look at one man's fight against slavery in 19th century England. His next movie, Eastern Promises, is the story of a midwife who witnesses the death of an immigrant while giving birth. She attempts to track down the girl's family and instead finds herself deep into the seedy underbelly of organized crime.

Eastern Promises, like all of Knight's screenplays, attracted quality cast and crew. Naomi Watts stars as the midwife, and Viggo Mortensen as a man within the mob.