Sequence creator Steven Knight has confirmed that star Cillian Murphy will return as Thomas Shelby for the Peaky Blinders film. What’s extra, Knight signaled a fall begin for the manufacturing.
Knight dropped the information whereas chatting with BirminghamWorld on the premiere of his new BBC collection, This City. “He’s undoubtedly returning for it,” the screenwriter mentioned of Murphy. “We’re taking pictures it in September simply down the street in Digbeth.”
Earlier this month, Murphy expressed his need to reprise his function because the fascinating crime boss. “I’ve at all times mentioned that if Knight delivers a script that I do know he can ship, as a result of he’s such an exceptional author, I’ll be there,” the current Oscar winner informed the Irish Star.
It appears Knight has certainly delivered the script, and Murphy will certainly be there. Knight has had plans for a Peaky Blinders movie since earlier than the sixth and remaining season premiered. In an oral historical past of the collection for Esquire, he mentioned the “new era” showing in Season 6 “are going to be a part of what occurs in [the] movie” — and probably any future continuation of the story.
“The movie, I do know precisely what it’s about. And I do know what two tales it’s going to inform,” Knight mentioned. “How the story will unfold, I don’t know. What is going to occur after that, I need that to rely upon the movie. For all we all know any person goes to come out – I believe I do know who it’s going to be.”
Debuting in early 2022, Peaky Blinders Season 6 was set in 1933, earlier than the onset of World Conflict II that has lengthy been planed because the endpoint of the story. The place precisely the movie will choose up is unknown, however as long as it’s Thomas Shelby main followers in direction of that remaining air-raid siren, we’re certainly alongside for the journey.
In the meantime, Netflix is reportedly engaged on two spin-off collection. One can be a prequel targeted on a younger Polly Grey (Helen McCrory within the unique collection), and the opposite can be set in Boston because the Shelby clan strikes its operations abroad.