Never fear, Peaky Blinders fans — the Shelbys live on!
The gritty drama set in the Birmingham criminal underworld will continue after its upcoming feature film with a series centered on a new generation of Shelbys.
Even better? The television sequel has already been greenlit for two seasons, Netflix and the BBC announced on Thursday. Original Peaky star Cillian Murphy is an executive producer, as is series creator Steven Knight.
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Cillian Murphy and Steven Knight on set as production starts on the ‘Peaky Blinders’ film
The series’ official logline reads: “Britain, 1953. After being heavily bombed in WWII, Birmingham is building a better future out of concrete and steel. In a new era of Steven Knight’s Peaky Blinders, the race to own Birmingham’s massive reconstruction project becomes a brutal contest of mythical dimensions. This is a city of unprecedented opportunity and danger, with the Shelby family right at its blood-soaked heart.”
The show will follow the Peaky Blinders movie, which is currently in post-production and due out next year.
“I’m thrilled to be announcing this new chapter in the Peaky Blinders story,” Knight said in a statement. “Once again it will be rooted in Birmingham and will tell the story of a city rising from the ashes of the Birmingham blitz. The new generation of Shelbys have taken the wheel and it will be a hell of a ride.”
As with select scenes from the Peaky Blinders movie, the new series will be shot at Knight’s Digbeth Loc. Studios in Birmingham. Both seasons will be produced by Kudos (SAS Rogue Heroes, House of Guinness, Grantchester) and Garrison Drama, which worked on Peaky Blinders seasons 1 through 6 and the movie.
Karen Wilson and Martin Haines (Kudos), Jamie Glazebrook (Garrison Drama), and Jo McClellan (BBC) will serve as executive producers alongside Murphy and Knight. Mona Qureshi and Toby Bentley will oversee it for Netflix.
Following the rise and fall of the fictional Shelby family circa 1900s England, the original series ran for nearly a decade, from 2013 to 2022, and helped launch Murphy to even greater heights as an international star. It also starred Paul Anderson, Sophie Rundle, and Helen McCrory.
The show’s conclusion devastated many fans, but after the series finale aired in June 2022, Peaky punks (Blinder-ites?) knew they would get at least some form of closure with a follow-up film on its way.
“We’re going to end the series as it is at the moment, but we’re going to do the movie, which we’ll shoot in 18 months time, maybe a little bit longer,” Knight told EW in 2021.
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Paul Anderson, Cillian Murphy, and Annabelle Wallis on ‘Peaky Blinders’
While its plot has been firmly locked away, the movie has been described as “an epic continuation” of the series set during World War II. As Knight put it, “The country is at war, and so, of course, are our Peaky Blinders.”
Along with Murphy, the film stars Rebecca Ferguson, Barry Keoghan, Stephen Graham, and Tim Roth.
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Knight has always had faith that he’d be able to continue the Shelbys’ story beyond the original series and film. During a March appearance on The Playlist‘s Bingeworthy podcast, he called the movie “a fitting end to the first chapter” and teased the idea of another story.
“As long as there’s an appetite for it and I’ve got stories to tell,” he said, “then why not?”
Consider our appetites whet!
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