Oscar winner Cillian Murphy to star in ‘Peaky Blinders’ movie, creator says
Tommy Shelby is headed to the big screen.
Cillian Murphy is reportedly set to reprise his role as the Irish-Romani gang leader in a “Peaky Blinders” movie, according to Steven Knight, who created the hit British crime drama.
“He definitely is returning for it,” Knight, 64, told Birmingham World of Murphy, 47, at the premiere of “The Town,” his new drama series for BBC. “We’re shooting it in September just down the road in Digbeth [England].”
The Post has contacted reps for Murphy for comment.
“Peaky Blinders” ran for six seasons from 2013 to 2022 overseas on BBC Two (then BBC One for its last two seasons) but gained worldwide fame when it hit Netflix in 2014.
The series won the Best Drama Series award at the 2018 BAFTAs.
Set in 1900s England after the First World War, the show follows a gangster family and the Peaky Blinders street gang led by Tommy.
Murphy previously expressed interest in returning for a film adaption of the project but never confirmed it was happening.
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“If there’s more story there, I’d love to do it,” he told Rolling Stone UK last summer. “But it has to be right. Steve Knight wrote 36 hours of television, and we left on such a high. I’m really proud of that last series. So, it would have to feel legitimate and justified to do more.”
Knight, however, has openly discussed his ideas for the movie since 2022.
“Peaky – in this incarnation – comes to an end,” he told a group of reporters at the time about Season 6. “But we’re doing a film which will also carry on the family and the stories into the Second World War.”
He added to Esquire in February 2022, “The film, I know exactly what it’s about. And I know what two stories it’s going to tell. How the story will unfold, I don’t know. What will happen after that, I want that to depend on the film. For all we know somebody is going to pop out – I think I know who it’s going to be.”
“In series six we’re bringing in the new generation, and they are going to be part of what happens in the film,” Knight continued. “I think it’s finding those actors that you just watch and you think, there you go. There’s the future.”
The news comes weeks after Murphy took home his first Oscar for best actor for his portrayal of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer in Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer.” The drama also won the golden statue for Best Picture.
