Begging works! Last year, Margot Robbie used her “Actors on Actors” interview with Cillian Murphy to implore him (“please do it, please”) to reprise his role as Tommy fucking Shelby, as seen above in a first look image of the film. Netflix confirmed on June 4 that it has officially green-lit a Peaky Blinders movie. Peaky Blinders, which concluded in 2022 after six seasons, followed a crime gang in post-WWI Birmingham, England. In the finale, Tommy Shelby rode a horse off into an ambiguous ending. While it won’t be a full season, we think fans will still get what they came for: The series’ creator, Steven Knight, is writing the script and Tom Harper (who directed several episodes in season one) will direct. After all, you don’t fuck with the Peaky Blinders. Below, everything we know about the movie so far, starting with the new Irishman on the block, Barry Keoghan.
Who’s going to be in it?
The name that every fan of this show wants to hear, and the one that the movie’s existence was likely dependent on, is Cillian Murphy. And he’s back! “It seems like Tommy Shelby wasn’t finished with me,” Murphy said in a statement in June. “It is very gratifying to be recollaborating with Steven Knight and Tom Harper on the film version of Peaky Blinders. This is one for the fans.” But mostly Margot, right?
Murphy will be joined by two well-known actors new to the Peaky Blinders–verse. Barry Keoghan, of Saltburn and dating Sabrina Carpenter fame, joined the cast on August 29, bringing our Prestige Irishmen counter up to two. Paul Mescal, you’re up next. Colin Farrell, get ready too. Murphy and Keoghan star alongside Rebecca Ferguson, who is notably not Irish (though her maternal grandmother was Northern Irish) and instead grew up in Sweden. Say “Hej!”
What’s this movie going to be about?
Netflix has not officially shared any plot details about the upcoming film, but Knight told Deadline in 2022 that a spinoff movie would be set in World War II. He also recently added to Netflix that the movie will be an “explosive chapter” and described it as full-on “Peaky Blinders at war,” so that seems to check out. We just hope this doesn’t mean Shelby’s iconic haircut will be covered up by a combat helmet.
When is it out?
No word on a release date yet, but probably not March 17. That’d be tacky.
Are there any plans for more Peaky Blinders?
PBCU is underway. In an interview with Times Radio per Deadline, Knight teased that the film won’t be the end of Peaky Blinders. He shared, “Well, it’s interesting you should ask that question because the film is coming out and that won’t be the end.” However, he was unclear what the future would be and whether it be a series or another film, he teased, “It won’t be the end, let me put it that way. I’m not saying none of it.”