We know there is a ‘Peaky Blinders‘ film on the way via Netflix, but it looks like creator Steven Knight has plans for a new series of the smash-hit drama as well!
News leaked out from an internal BBC event this week, attended by Knight, where he commented that a new season of the beloved series could be filmed later this year at Digbeth Loc Studios, his Birmingham film studio, which he opened in 2023. Should the series happen, he suggests it would, once again, follow the Shelby family, but move things into the 1950s.
We should stress, this has not been officially greenlit, however, reports suggest there are ongoing discussions between producers Banijay UK with the BBC, who air the drama in the UK, and Netflix, who air it internationally. Knight had previously hinted in interviews that the upcoming film would not be the end of the story, but a bookend to chapter one.
The movie, titled “The Immortal Man”, will see Cillian Murphy return as Thomas Shelby, and is set during the 1940s and WWII, “when Birmingham was being carpet-bombed every night by the German Air Force,” said Knight in an interview recently. He continues, “The stakes are higher. People don’t know if they’re going to live until tomorrow morning. There’s a lot of hedonism, there’s a lot of fatalism, and you’re throwing into that Tommy Shelby who was having his own existential crisis.”
The movie also stars Rebecca Ferguson, Tim Roth, Jay Lycurgo, and Barry Keoghan, with Sophie Rundle (Ada Thorne), Packy Lee (Johnny Dogs), Stephen Graham (Hayden Stagg), Ned Dennehy (Charlie Strong) and Ian Peck (Curly) all reprising their roles from the series.
So, this potential 7th Season of ‘Peaky Blinders’ would be set after those events, and – assuming he is still alive at the end of the film – Tommy would be in his 60s. As to exactly where the story will go at that point, it’s hard to say. Whilst the drama is inspired by a real-life Birmingham gang, in real history, the Peaky Blinders had pretty much lost their grip over the city by the late 1920s. However, this is fiction, and the show had already gone off in its own direction, so it’s entirely possible they would still be around in Knight’s alt-history version of events.
Once again, we stress, neither the BBC nor Netflix have officially ordered a new ‘Peaky Blinders‘ season yet, but given Steven Knight seems very keen to do more, it’s hard to imagine one or both won’t pull the trigger on it at some point. We’ll let you know when we hear more.
