It appears to be like like we haven’t seen the final of gangster Tommy Shelby in spite of everything. Talking to Birmingham World on the premiere of his new BBC drama “The City,” “Peaky Blinders” creator Steven Knight confirmed that latest Oscar winner Cillian Murphy can be reprising his beloved function within the upcoming movie model of the British crime drama. Knight stated Murphy is “positively” coming again, and filming on the “Peaky Blinders” film kicks off this September.

“He positively is returning for it. We’re capturing it in September simply down the street in Digbeth,” Knight confirmed.

Selection has reached out to Murphy’s representatives for added remark.

Murphy’s obvious return as Tommy Shelby for the “Peaky Blinders” film isn’t an excessive amount of of a shock contemplating the “Oppenheimer” star has lengthy been vocal about his curiosity in starring in a “Peaky Blinders” movie so long as the script was worthy sufficient.

“If there’s extra story there, I’d like to do it,” Murphy instructed Rolling Stone U.Ok. final 12 months a couple of “Peaky” film. “But it surely needs to be proper. Steve Knight wrote 36 hours of tv, and we left on such a excessive. I’m actually pleased with that final collection. So, it must really feel reliable and justified to do extra.”

Murphy instructed the Irish Star simply final month forward of profitable the Oscar: “I’ve at all times stated that if Knight delivers a script that I do know he can ship, as a result of he’s such an exceptional author, I’ll be there. … If we wish to watch 50-year-old Tommy Shelby, I can be there. Let’s do it.”

Throughout a dialog for Selection‘s Actors on Actors between Murphy and “Peaky Blinders” superfan Margot Robbie final 12 months, she talked about the collection, saying, “Can we please speak about Tommy fucking Shelby for only one minute?” She then requested him a couple of potential spinoff film, begging him to do one, to which Murphy stated: “I imply, I’m open to the concept. I’ve at all times thought that if there’s extra story to inform.”

“Peaky Blinders” initially premiered on BBC Two abroad (its closing two seasons moved to BBC One), however after the present arrived on Netflix its reputation exploded. The collection finale aired in April 2022, however Knight by no means hid his intentions to proceed the story in a film.

“The movie, I do know precisely what it’s about. And I do know what two tales it’s going to inform,” the creator instructed Esquire even earlier than the collection finale aired. “What is going to occur after that, I would like that to depend upon the movie. For all we all know any individual goes to come out – I feel I do know who it’s going to be.”