Peaky Blinders movie given 'official' greenlight by Netflix - and Cillian Murphy returns

The Peaky Blinders movie has been given the OFFICIAL greenlight by Netflix. Cillian Murphy, the Oppenheimer star and Academy Award-winning actor, is set to star and produce film continuing the story of the Shelby family, who hail from Birmingham.

The BBC show's movie will come from a script by series creator Steven Knight. Tom Harper is directing the untitled film. Harper is no stranger to Peaky, which wrapped up in April 2022, having helmed the back half of season one.

Producers are Caryn Mandabach, Knight, 28 Days Later star Murphy and Guy Heeley. Executive producers include Harper, David Kosse, Jamie Glazebrook, Andrew Warren and David Mason. Murphy told Deadline: “It seems like Tommy Shelby wasn’t finished with me. …

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"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.” Harper said: “When I first directed Peaky Blinders over 10 years ago, we didn’t know what the series would become, but we did know that there was something in the alchemy of the cast and the writing that felt explosive.

"Peaky has always been a story about family — and so it’s incredibly exciting to be reuniting with Steve and Cillian to bring the movie to audiences across the world on Netflix.” Knight added: “I’m genuinely thrilled that this movie is about to happen.

"It will be an explosive chapter in the Peaky Blinders story. No holds barred. Full-on Peaky Blinders at war.” Knight previously revealed the news in conversation with Birmingham World at the premiere of The Town, his new drama series for BBC. “He definitely is returning for it,” he said of Murphy. “We’re shooting it in September just down the road in Digbeth [England].”

“The film, I know exactly what it’s about. And I know what two stories it’s going to tell,” he shared in a 2022 interview with Esquire. “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.”