Cillian Murphy shall be reprising his position as Tommy Shelby for Netflix’s Peaky Blinders film.
“It looks like Tommy Shelby wasn’t completed with me …” Murphy, 48, stated in an announcement with Netflix on Tuesday, June 4. “It is rather gratifying to be recollaborating with Steven Knight and Tom Harper on the movie model of Peaky Blinders. That is one for the followers.”
Netflix introduced the movie had been greenlit on Tuesday. Whereas sharing the information on social media, the streamer included an image of the entrance web page of the script.
“Tommy Shelby returns,” Nextlfix wrote through X. “A Peaky Blinders Movie starring Cillian Murphy is coming to Netflix.”
Peaky Blinders was a British phenomenon lengthy earlier than Netflix acquired the rights to broadcast the present around the globe. Starring Cillian Murphy as Tommy Shelby, the six-season sequence was famously set in Birmingham, England and happened following the occasions in World Battle I. The primary season adopted Tommy and his brothers — Arthur (Paul […]
Particulars of the film, together with its title, haven’t been revealed because the script refers to it solely as “a Peaky Blinders movie.” The film shall be produced in affiliation with BBC Movie, because the TV present aired on the BBC community initially. Knight, who created the sequence, is writing the script whereas Harper will direct like he did within the first season.
“Once I first directed Peaky Blinders over 10 years in the past, we didn’t know what the sequence would turn out to be, however we did know that there was one thing within the alchemy of the forged and the writing that felt explosive,” Harper stated in an announcement. “Peaky has at all times been a narrative about household — and so it’s extremely thrilling to be reuniting with Steve and Cillian to deliver the film to audiences the world over on Netflix.”
Whereas the sequence finale, which aired in 2022, left off with Tommy beginning the subsequent chapter of his life, Knight teased that followers of the present is not going to be upset within the new story.
“I’m genuinely thrilled that this film is about to occur,” Knight stated in an announcement. “Will probably be an explosive chapter within the Peaky Blinders story. No holds barred. Full on Peaky Blinders at battle.”
Cillian Murphy honed his craft for practically three many years earlier than his Oppenheimer position made him certainly one of Hollywood’s largest names. “I’m cussed and missing in confidence, which is a horrible mixture,” Murphy joked to The Guardian in July 2023 whereas selling the venture. He confessed: “I don’t need to put something out that I don’t […]
Murphy starred on the British crime drama for all six seasons. The BBC sequence, which premiered in 2013, follows the Peaky Blinders crime gang within the aftermath of World Battle 1. It’s a fictional story that’s loosely based mostly on an actual city youth gang.
Along with Murphy, the sequence had an ensemble forged which included Paul Anderson, Sophie Rundle, Ned Dennehy, Benjamin Zephaniah, Natasha O’Keeffe and Helen McCrory. Peaky Blinders additionally had notable visitor stars together with Sam Neill, Annabelle Wallis, Tom Hardy, Adrien Brody, Anya Taylor-Pleasure, Sam Claflin and extra. No further casting bulletins for the movie adaptation have been made but.
