Peaky Blinders season six was released in 2022 but instead of a seventh, creator Steven Knight wants to finish up the story of Cillian Murphy’s Tommy Shelby and the rest of his criminal mates with a feature film.
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The show first aired in 2013 and followed the exploits of a street gang known as the Peaky Blinders directly after the first World War. Across six seasons, the Birmingham-based criminals tried to expand their empire despite numerous outside threats and their own turbulent relationships.
After a lot of murder, betrayal and shoot-outs, the final season ended with head honcho Tommy Shelby riding off into the sunset after finding out his terminal brain tumour was actually the result of a malicious false diagnosis orchestrated by one of his many enemies. So what happens next?
That’s what the Peaky Blinders movie will explore. The film was greenlit earlier this year and production has started. Here’s everything we know about the “explosive” new chapter in the Peaky Blinders story.
Who’s coming back for the Peaky Blinders movie?
Old friends and new faces
The Peaky Blinders movie will feature a script written by series creator Steven Knight while season one’s director Tom Harper is also back. Cillian Murphy is definitely returning as Tommy Shelby as well. “I would love to do a movie if there’s more story to tell,” he told Radio Times in 2023 and a year later, Knight confirmed Murphy had signed onto the project.
“It seems like Tommy Shelby wasn’t finished with me,” Murphy said in a statement. “It is very gratifying to be collaborating with Steven Knight and Tom Harper on the film version of Peaky Blinders. This is one for the fans.”
Cillian Murphy and Steven Knight onset of the ‘Peaky Blinders’ movie. CREDIT: Netflix
He’s not the only familiar face either. Netflix has confirmed that Stephen Graham will return as union leader Hayden Stagg, Sophie Rundle is back as Tommy’s sister Ada Shelby and Ned Dennehy’s Charlie Strong will also be featured. Ian Peck’s Curly and Packy Lee’s Johnny Dogs will also be reprising their roles for the Peaky Blinders movie.
Sam Clafin, who played fascist politician Oswald Mosley, said he’d “love to revisit the character” but hadn’t had a call as of 2023 while in 2022 Kate Phillips, who played Linda Shelby (the ex-wife of Tommy’s brother Arthur), told Radio Times she’d be “thrilled” to do a Peaky Blinders movie. Tom Hardy has also spoken about Alfie Solomon making an appearance in the movie after returning for the season six finale but claimed he hadn’t been invited back just yet.
Creator Steven Knight has said that a new character introduced in the last season of Peaky Blinders will play a big part in the film. “In series six we’re bringing in the new generation, and they are going to be part of what happens in the film, ” Knight told Esquire in 2022. “I think it’s finding those actors that you just watch and you think, there you go. There’s the future.”
Who else is starring in the movie?
Award-winning talent
A number of new actors have been confirmed to star in the Peaky Blinders movie. Dune’s Rebecca Ferguson, Saltburn’s Barry Keoghan, Tim Roth and Jay Lycurgo have all joined the cast in unconfirmed roles
Netflix gave fans a first look at Keoghan’s mysterious character at the start of November. The image sees Keoghan wearing a flat cap and leaning out of a van window – putting him right in the heart of whatever criminal business will drive the Peaky Blinders movie forward.
Barry Keoghan in the ‘Peaky Blinders’ film. CREDIT: Netflix
When will the Peaky Blinders movie be released?
Netflix says “soon”
Knight has been talking about a Peaky Blinders movie since before the sixth season even aired. However COVID caused a number of delays and Netflix only greelit the project in June 2024. Production started at the end of September and is still ongoing, with the film set to be released in 2025 at the earliest. No firm date has been announced yet but Netflix says it’s coming “soon”.
What will the Peaky Blinders movie be about?
War is coming
In 2021, Knight told Variety that the Peaky Blinders movie will be “a fitting conclusion to the story told so far.” When production began in September, he said (via Netflix)”: “I’m thrilled to see the cameras rolling on this new chapter of the Peaky Blinders story, set during World War II. The country is at war, and so, of course, are our Peaky Blinders.”
Details about the plot are currently under wraps but Knight has promised that “it will be an explosive chapter in the Peaky Blinders story. No holds barred. Full-on Peaky Blinders at war.”
“I think the film is gonna be a step up again, and it’s gonna be great that Peaky fans can meet in one place and watch it,” he told NME earlier this year. “The budget will be bigger, but also because we know we’re ending this chapter, we’re all going to try to do our best.
By order of the Peaky Blinders… Cillian Murphy as Tommy Shelby. CREDIT: BBC
Will there be more films and TV shows?
Probably
Despite Knight describing the Peaky Blinders movie as a “fitting conclusion” to the story so far, Netflix has been leaning away from the finality of it all. The streamer has called it “an epic continuation” while Knight has promised an “explosive chapter”, leaving the door wide open for more movies, spin-offs and TV shows.
“The film, I know exactly what it’s about. And I know what two stories it’s going to tell. How the story will unfold, I don’t know. What will happen after that, I want that to depend on the film. For all we know somebody is going to pop out – I think I know who it’s going to be,” Knight told Esquire. “Tommy will never be satisfied. I don’t know what’s in store for him. But I think he will never rest,” Murphy added.
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