Peaky Blinders creator confirms film 'ready to go' and shares Cillian's messages on role

Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight has confirmed the film is 'ready to go' and that Cillian Murphy is set to appear. Steven revealed that Oscar winner Cillian would text after 'every award win' to say he 'couldn't wait' to play Tommy Shelby again.

The Peaky Blinders creator said the success of Oppenheimer 'wouldn't change what they would be doing next', confirming Cillian would have a role in the Peaky Blinders film.The man behind the hugely popular BBC drama has previously said the movie will be shot in September, "just down the road in Digbeth ".

He has now told NME he was "doing the final polishes", which would "continue up until the day before we start shooting" but everything was "sorted" and they were "ready to go". Fans have been told the budget was "bigger" and the film would "be a step up again".

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Steven added: "Because we know we’re ending this chapter, we’re all going to try to do our best. Cillian is really up for it. So I can’t wait for it to start shooting.”

Cillian took home his first Oscar for Best Actor for his role in Oppenheimer and also won a Golden Globe, a Bafta and a Screen Actors Guild award for his starring turn as theoretical physicist J Robert Oppenheimer in Christopher Nolan’s biopic about the father of the atomic bomb.

Reflecting on his success, Steven told the publication: “Isn’t it amazing? I’m so pleased for him because he deserves it. After every award that he won, he would text and say, ‘I really can’t wait to be doing Peaky.’ Confirming that none of this was going to change what we’re going to do next.”