The BBC has confirmed that Peaky Blinders is about to return with two new collection following a brand new era of the Shelby household.
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As was introduced right this moment (October 2), Steven Knight‘s interval drama about gangsters in Twenties Birmingham has been commissioned for 2 extra seasons, every comprising six episodes.
Starring Cillian Murphy as Tommy Shelby, the collection was thought to have ended with its sixth season again in 2022, with the 2 upcoming seasons now set to comply with a brand new era of the Shelby clan within the aftermath of the Second World Conflict.
“I’m thrilled to be asserting this new chapter within the Peaky Blinders story,” stated Knight in a press launch. “As soon as once more, it is going to be rooted in Birmingham and can inform the story of a metropolis rising from the ashes of the Birmingham blitz. The brand new era of Shelbys have taken the wheel and it is going to be a hell of a experience.”
Forged members are but to be introduced, and it’s presently unknown whether or not earlier stars like Murphy could be returning, however the Oppenheimer actor is on board as an government producer for the brand new seasons.
The forthcoming collection will likely be produced by Garrison Drama and Kudos, whose different titles embody SAS Rogue Heroes and the latest Netflix collection Home of Guinness, which earned a three-star evaluation from NME.
“In comparison with Peaky Blinders,” wrote Paul Bradshaw, “we’ve right here a way more attention-grabbing backdrop to a a lot much less attention-grabbing set of characters.
“The result’s a narrative that feels skinny: characters you solely half care about, depths that get skated over, and a style-over-substance pint that would have used a barely higher head.”
The brand new seasons of Peaky Blinders will likely be shot at Birmingham’s Digbeth Loc Studios, and can air on BBC One within the UK and Netflix globally, with no launch date confirmed on the time of writing.
In 2024, he talked about that there could also be one other present within the pipeline that targeted “on the brand new era”, and later advised Occasions Radio that the upcoming movie “gained’t be the tip”.
Written by Knight and directed by Peaky season one’s Tom Harper, the brand new movie will see Murphy again on display screen alongside different returning solid members Stephen Graham and Sophie Rundle.
There may also be some new faces amongst the Shelbys, together with Saltburn and Chicken’s Barry Keoghan, Dune and Silo’s Rebecca Ferguson, Tim Roth and Jay Lycurgo, who be part of the solid in still-unknown roles. Plot particulars are nonetheless below wraps, although Knight has stated that it’s set throughout World Conflict II.
He has been speaking a few Peaky Blinders film since earlier than the sixth season even aired, however COVID prompted a lot of delays and Netflix solely greenlit the challenge final June. Manufacturing began on the finish of September and wrapped on the finish of final yr, and no agency date has been introduced but – though Netflix says it’s coming “quickly”.
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