Yahoo News Peaky Blinders Season 5 starts filming this autumn
Peaky Blinders creator, Steven Knight, has revealed that series five will start shooting this autumn.
The writer was talking about the upcoming fifth season with Birmingham Live, and as well as revealing when shooting would begin, also gave us a few other little hints about what to expect.
"We are going into the 30s now," he said. "There is so much stuff happening, so why not finish the job?"
He went on to refer to the depression, which will play an essential part in season five's storyline. "It is setting those things up. In the 30s across Europe and Britain, there was the rise of fascism."
Knight has already said that he would like the show to run for seven seasons in total, which will give him enough time to tell the story he has in mind.
Asked how Peaky Blinders will end, Steven replied: "In my mind, it ends with the first air raid siren in the Second World War.
"My mum told a story about the air raid siren going off and her mum coming in, pulling the blankets off, and saying, 'Come on, the buggers are here'."
The fourth season of Peaky Blinders left us dangling off a cliff's edge, and we're all eagerly awaiting answers to some crucial questions.
The main one everybody's lips being: is Alfie Solomons (Tom Hardy) really dead?
"Pass," was the only answer Knight gave.
And what about Grace? "I am not going to answer," replied Knight.
He was a bit more talkative when asked whether the Shelbys were a real family. "My dad's uncles were, in spite of what people say about there not being Peaky Blinders after 1910, my dad and his uncles were the Sheldons.
"The Sheldons were bookmakers and everybody knew them as the Peaky Blinders, everybody called them the Peaky Blinders."
And could you imagine a season of Peaky Blinders without its charismatic lead, Cillian Murphy?
"I would think about it – we are bringing through the new generation – but I don't contemplate it."
Sounds like he's sitting on the fence on that one.
Peaky Blinders will return with series 5 in 2019 – but you can catch up on Netflix now.
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